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Gary Hart has had quite an eventful life. That Sunday, the Herald would publish a story which also reported that Hart and Rice had previously been together in Bimini, on a boat called Monkey Business. But drawn to public service by President Kennedy, he ended up managing George McGovern's losing 1972 presidential race. asked Braver. "But hadn't that been the case in America for 200 years?" There were long-running Washington rumors that Hart, who went through two separations from his wife, engaged in extramarital affairs. One reporter asked Hart if he'd ever been unfaithful in his marriage. "And you and your wife have now been together 60 years. The story of Gary Hart's fall is considered a turning point, the moment when the press started examining the private lives, as well as the political ideas of candidates. In 1987 Hart warned, "We're all going to have to seriously question a system for selecting our national leaders that reduces the press of this nation to hunters and presidential candidates to being hunted."

On today's show: Washington Post senior politics reporter Aaron Blake and Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast and Yale Law School fellow, discuss the news from the weekend, including Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation. After Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court, parents reflect on the fear that their daughters won't be believed if they report a sexual assault, and/or that their sons will be falsely accused of sexual assault. Cynthia Garrett, attorney and co-president of Families advocating for Campus Equality, and Sage Carson, manager of Know Your IX, a survivor- and youth-led project of Advocates for Youth that aims to empower students to end sexual and dating violence in their schools, debate whether the changes Betsy Devos made to federal policies dealing with sexual misconduct in colleges are for better or worse. Ralph Nader, political activist and author of To the Ramparts: How Bush and Obama Paved the Way for the Trump Presidency, and Why It Isn't Too Late to Reverse Course (Seven Stories Press, 2018), argues the Trump presidency is part of a trend started under Bush and Obama to empower corporations at the expense of the working and middle classes.

On the eve of a Senate vote likely to result in the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, two of the three sitting female justices said the court must guard its own reputation for being impartial, neutral and fair. Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor shared concerns that widespread polarization in the country's political environment could affect public perceptions of the court's legitimacy. Speaking at a question-and-answer session during a conference at Princeton University dedicated to celebrating women, Kagan and Sotomayor did not directly address the prospect of Kavanaugh's confirmation but said there was value to maintaining a "middle position" on the court's bench. "This is a really divided time," Kagan said. "Part of the court's strength and part of the court's legitimacy depends on people not seeing the court the way they see the rest of the governing structures of the country now." Their pre-scheduled appearance at the "She Roars" conference came just hours after Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-Virginia, announced they would support Kavanaugh's nomination. Sotomayor said she sought out "the good" in her colleagues and that the court's members had a practice of maintaining collegial relationships even in times of disagreement. "If you start from the proposition that there's something good in everyone it's a lot easier to get along with them," she said. "It's just the nine of us," Kagan added. The two justices, both Princeton graduates, were interviewed before an audience of more than 3,000 by another alumna, Heather Gerken, who currently serves as the Dean of Kavanaugh's alma mater, Yale Law School.

From the gripping Kavanaugh hearings to developments at the United Nations General Assembly, it’s been a busy week in American politics. Judge Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination: Here’s where things stand now. [Read the story] But the vote came only after Republican senators agreed to a last-minute demand from Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona: to conduct a time-limited F.B.I. inquiry into the allegations of sexual misconduct against Judge Kavanaugh. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who came forward last week with allegations that Judge Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, was the first to testify before the Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Before the hearings on Thursday, two more women came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against the Supreme Court nominee. [Read the story] In an article published Sunday, one of the women, Deborah Ramirez, alleged that Judge Kavanaugh had exposed himself to her at a dorm party during her freshman year of college. [Read the story] Additional Reading • Supreme Court Fight Goes Prime Time With Kavanaugh’s Fox News Interview • Debunking 5 (More) Viral Rumors About Kavanaugh’s Accusers • Trump Accuses Democrats of Running ‘Con Game’ Against Kavanaugh At the General Assembly, President Trump stuck to familiar themes. [Read the story] Additional Reading • U.N. General Assembly: Criticism and Praise for Trump Administration • Trump’s Tariffs May Hurt, but Quitting China Is Hard to Do • 5 Takeaways From Trump’s News Conference at the United Nations 38 days to go: Developments as the midterm elections near. • Sheldon Adelson Sees a Lot to Like in Trump’s Washington • Ellison, Trying to Clear Name, Calls for Investigation Into Abuse Claims _____________________ Today’s On Politics briefing was compiled by Emily Cochrane in Washington and Margaret Kramer in New York.

Professors cancel 31 classes as students hold a sit-in to protest alumni Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The…

A top professor at Yale Law School who strongly endorsed supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as a “mentor to women” privately told a group of law students last year that it was “not an accident” that Kavanaugh’s female law clerks all “looked like models” and would provide advice to students about their physical appearance if they wanted to work for him, the Guardian has learned. Yale provided Kavanaugh with many of the judge’s clerks over the years, and Chua played an outsized role in vetting the clerks who worked for him. One source said that in at least one case, a law student was so put off by Chua’s advice about how she needed to look, and its implications, that she decided not to pursue a clerkship with Kavanaugh, a powerful member of the judiciary who had a formal role in vetting clerks who served in the US supreme court. [Rubenfeld] told me, 'Kavanaugh hires women with a certain look'. However, the remarks from Chua and Rubenfeld raise questions about why the couple believed it was important to emphasize the students’ physical appearance when discussing jobs with Kavanaugh. Chua allegedly told the students that it was “no accident” that Kavanaugh’s female clerks “looked like models”. A Yale Law School official said in an emailed statement: “This is the first we have heard claims that Professor Chua coached students to look ‘like models’. We will look into these claims promptly, taking into account the fact that Professor Chua is currently unreachable due to serious illness. The couple have hired a well-known crisis communications expert but he did not respond to specific questions from the Guardian about Chua’s remarks or the internal investigation. “There is good reason so many of them have gone on to supreme court clerkships; he only hires those who are extraordinarily qualified.