Jeffrey Toobin | The Deceptive Contrast Between Trump and Kavanaugh

09 September 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE MUST HAVE YOUR ATTENTION ON FUNDING: The September fundraiser is moving far too slowly. We need 650 donations @ $30. If we get larger donations, those count for more. The time is now to address this. Yours. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Jeffrey Toobin | The Deceptive Contrast Between Trump and Kavanaugh  Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker Toobin writes: "Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh looked and sounded very different, but those appearances deceived. Both men were pulling the country in the same direction, toward more inequality, more pollution, and, to put the matter bluntly, women once more dying from botched abortions." READ MORE Senator Susan Collins of Maine. (photo: Tom Brenner/NYT) Brett Kavanaugh Said He Would Kill Roe v. Wade Last Week and Almost No One Noticed Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress Millhiser writes: "Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh needs to give Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) plausible deniability regarding his anti-abortion views." READ MORE Summer Zervos leaves court at the conclusion of a hearing in New York on Dec. 5. (photo: Kathy Willens/AP) Trump to Provide Written Answers Under Oath in Summer Zervos Defamation Lawsuit Elise Viebeck, The Washington Post Viebeck writes: "President Trump will provide written answers under oath in the defamation lawsuit brought by former 'Apprentice' contestant Summer Zervos, who claims Trump sexually assaulted her in 2007, a new court filing stated." READ MORE According to the Brennan Center for Justice, 34 states bar citizens from voting based on past convictions. (photo: Bloomberg/Bloomberg/Getty Images) US Inmates Mark End of Prison Strike With Push to Regain Voting Rights Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK Pilkington writes: "Inmates within America's overflowing prisons are marking the end of a 19-day national prison strike on Sunday with a new push to regain the vote for up to 6 million Americans who have been stripped of their democratic rights." READ MORE Serena Williams. (photo: Elsa/Getty Images) ALSO SEE: Tennis Legend Billie Jean King Backs Serena Williams Serena Williams and the Game That Can't Be Won (Yet): What Rage Costs a Woman. Rebecca Traister, New York Magazine Traister writes: "I don't care much about the rules of tennis that Serena Williams was accused of violating at Saturday night's U.S. Open final. Those rules were written for a game and for players who were not supposed to look or express themselves or play the game as beautifully and passionately as either Serena Williams or the young woman who eventually beat her, twenty-year-old Naomi Osaka, do." READ MORE Kosovo. (photo: AP) Kosovo Albanians Block Roads During Serbia President Visit Radul Radovanovic, Associated Press Radovanovic writes: "Kosovo Albanians on Sunday blocked roads and burned tires on a planned route by Serbia's president in the former Serbian province, further fueling tensions between the two Balkan foes." READ MORE Indigenous leaders, coast protectors, and others demonstrate against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, on March 10, 2018. (photo: Jason Redmond/Getty Images) First Nations Celebrate Win Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Shannan Lenke Stoll, YES! Magazine Stoll writes: "A Federal Court of Appeal on Thursday struck down the Canadian government's approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion, halting construction of the 1,150-kilometer project indefinitely." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation