What Happened In The Brett Kavanaugh Hearing

As Maggie said earlier, polygraph tests are not particularly reliable. Maybe Mitchell is focusing on it because of the public perception that they are reliable? Otherwise, I’m not sure why she’s dwelling on this.

Democrats — most recently, Richard Blumenthal — keep bringing up the need for an FBI investigation. This is another reminder of how political support for the FBI has shifted dramatically over the past few years. I wrote earlier this year about how Republicans and Democrats have essentially done a 180 on the FBI.

A Vanity Fair correspondent, Gabriel Sherman, reports that Trump is “furious” about how “credible” Ford seems.

Earlier this week, we looked at some other would-be conservative Supreme Court nominees — should conservatives choose and be able to nominate someone else.