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On Washington: A New Reality for Court Confirmations: Pandemonium, Protesters and Partisanship
1:54pm PDT - September 4th, 2018 cory booker - The New York TimesThirty years of warfare over judicial nominations culminated on Tuesday in the chaotic beginning of Senate consideration of the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.