by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, July 10.
- Theresa May in Fight to Save Government Amid Brexit Rift
- Trump Leaves for NATO Gathering With European Allies on Edge
- Trump picks Kavanaugh for high court, setting the stage for a fight (“Conservative stalwart has deep ties to the Republican establishment”)
- Brett Kavanaugh could drastically shift the court to the right. The Senate should take care.
- Brett Kavanaugh Supported Broad Leeway For Presidents Under Investigation (That alone should lead the Senate to reject him.)
- Putin is about to con Trump in Helsinki. Here’s how.
- Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court Pick, Is Probably the End of Abortion Rights and Same-Sex Marriage
- How Brett Kavanaugh Would Change The Supreme Court (“According to one prominent measure of judicial ideology, called Judicial Common Space scores, Kavanaugh would fall to the right of Gorsuch and Justice Samuel Alito, and just to the left of the arch conservative Justice Clarence Thomas.”)
- 2020 White House contenders race to oppose Trump’s pick
- How a private meeting with Kennedy helped Trump get to ‘yes’ on Kavanaugh (“While he was eager to keep the suspense alive, the president was always leaning toward Kennedy’s former clerk.”)
- Brett Kavanaugh Is a Safe Supreme Court Pick Who Will Carry Out the GOP’s Extreme Agenda
- Why Donald Trump Nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court (“…there never was going to be a true stealth candidate in this race, let alone an ideological outlier.”)
- Brett Kavanaugh Is Devoted to the Presidency
- Brett Kavanaugh Has GOP Bona Fides, But a Surprising Record (“For all his conservative bona fides, Kavanaugh is not necessarily a foot soldier of movement conservatism, according to SCOTUSblog, and his long record of opinions and dissents will offer much grist for confirmation hearings.”)
- There’s So Much You Don’t Know About Brett Kavanaugh (“And you probably won’t until it’s too late.”)
- Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court’s drastic shift to the right, cartoonsplained
- Yes, abortion is on Kavanaugh’s docket. But here’s what’s first. (“In tapping Brett Kavanaugh to be his second nominee to the Supreme Court, Trump has guaranteed that health care will be at the center of the confirmation fight.”)
- The two most consequential facts about Brett Kavanaugh (“According to the Social Security Administration’s actuarial tables, the average life expectancy for a 53-year-old American male is an additional 27 years. That means Kavanaugh can be expected to play a major role in our lives for at least two decades — probably two and a half, given that justices tend to hang on into their eighties. His elevation to the high court will affect me, my children and my grandchildren.”)
- Kavanaugh Pick Kicks Off Long-Shot Bid by Democrats to Block Him (“Schumer, Democrats have few tools to hold up Trump’s pick”)
- Democrats Line Up Against Supreme Court Pick Brett Kavanaugh: ‘He Can’t Be Trusted’ (“President Trump has put reproductive rights and freedoms and health care protections for millions of Americans on the judicial chopping block.”)
- Supreme Court nominee has been a foe of emissions rules (“Brett Kavanaugh, nominated on Monday to be a Supreme Court justice by U.S. President Donald Trump, is a long-time skeptic of business regulations, especially on rules limiting harmful emissions, although he has called global warming an ‘urgent’ issue.”)
- How Brett Kavanaugh Will Gut Roe v. Wade (“Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee has shown us precisely how he’ll do it.”)
- Trump’s reality-show Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh: He’s no moderate (“Did women just lose their rights on a reality show? Trump’s pick was always going to be an anti-choice ideologue”)
- Repealing Obamacare didn’t work. So Republicans are trying sabotage.
- Thai rescue: Tenth boy freed from cave on third day of operation
- After Moscow Trip, Ron Johnson Says Election Meddling Overblown (Useful idiot)
- Judge rejects Trump request to alter agreement on release of immigrant kids
- Trump was like a “predator” toward teens at parties in ’80s and ’90s, says BBC report
- This President* Never Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt (“Not in his actions, and not in whom he appoints to his administration* or the judicial bench.”)
- GOP-backed House candidate promoted white nationalist propaganda, including piece claiming Black people are “a threat to all” they encounter (“Seth Grossman, a right-wing pundit who is now the GOP nominee in New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District, previously touted opinion pieces that were published on two leading white nationalist websites. One of those posts, which Grossman praised, claimed that Black people ‘are a threat to all who cross their paths.'”)
- Another former OSU wrestler says Jim Jordan knew about alleged abuse
- 91-year-old man beaten with brick, told ‘go back to Mexico’ (Horrific. Trump’s America.)
- Editorial: A worthy project: internet to all of Virginia
- Virginia Republicans ask U.S. Supreme Court to postpone new legislative boundaries (“GOP leaders appeal lower court finding that House districts were racially gerrymandered” Of course they do.)
- Virginia, U.S. sue company behind defective Metro Silver Line concrete
- Richmond’s black residents have lived with shrines to the Confederacy for too long
- Judge allows federal lawsuit against 25 neo-Nazis to proceed for violence in Charlottesville
- 3 announce bids for Chesterfield commonwealth’s attorney to replace longtime top prosecutor Billy Davenport
- Virginia Retirement System hits 7 percent investment target for year, but target could change
- Editorial: Richmond bookstore owner is a hero, defending decent, pluralistic society (LOL, uh huh.)
- CASEY: The many benefits of having Paul Manfort’s trial in Roanoke
- Editorial: RVA’s big arena opportunity (“On Sunday, RTD reporter Mark Robinson outlined an ambitious project under consideration by the city to build a $220 million, 17,500-seat arena. The building would up Richmond’s profile for concerts and sporting events — without tapping the city’s revenue or debt capacity.”)
- Editorial: Just because Southwest Virginia lacks broadband doesn’t mean it’s ignorant
- Hotter and more humid today, then warm and dry through end of week
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