JUST IN: Case is Merkley v. Trump (1:18-cv-02226), filed in US District Court for DC. Other defendants include McConnell, Grassley, NARA, and Bill Burck (who handled the George W. Bush office part of this), as well as the Senate's Secretary and Sergeant as Arms.
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Update: On today's 64-person letter released by the White House, 24 of the 65 signatories from the original women backers of Kavanaugh signed, 28 of the 156 signatories from the original Georgetown Prep letter signed, and 12 names (10 men and 2 women) were new.
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Trump: "I've had numerous accusations about me. I mean they made false statements about me knowing they were false. I never met them. I never met these people. And what did they do, what did they do? They took money in order to say bad things."
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"Well, it does impact my opinion. You know why? Because I've had a lot of false charges made against me," Trump says. "So when you say, does it affect me in terms of my thinking with respect to Judge Kavanaugh. Absolutely, because I've had it many times."
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Trump acted like all of the Kavanaugh accusers would be able to testify before the Senate. Thus far, only Dr. Ford is slated to testify.
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Per NBC News, a fourth accuser went to Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, and Republicans questioned Kavanaugh about it shortly after noon on Tuesday.https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/senate-probing-new-allegation-misconduct-against-kavanaugh-n913581 …
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Also, not to be missed in all of this. —>https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1045066635156082688 …
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Grassley releases transcripts of two interviews held with Kavanaugh: Sept. 17 —> https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09.17.18%20BMK%20Interview%20Transcript%20(Redacted).pdf …pic.twitter.com/1oBibqIr3F
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Taylor Foy, the Judiciary Committee spokesperson for the Republicans, sends out the letter referenced in the NBC report. It was anonymous and no one is named besides Kavanaugh. Here is Foy’s statement, and the letter:pic.twitter.com/vhSLm4M57y
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Note on the Dem take on that NBC report and the subsequent transcript release —>https://twitter.com/eschor/status/1045096168370393090?s=21 …
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