The New Yorker reports that email correspondence between Deborah Ramirez’s legal team and Republican and Democratic Senate staffers “shows that a Republican aide declined to proceed with telephone calls and instead repeatedly demanded that Ramirez produce additional evidence in written form. Only then could any conversation about her testimony proceed.”

“The exchange culminated in a breakdown of communication between the two sides, as Republican and Democratic staffers traded accusations of stonewalling.”

The Senate Judiciary Committee will convene at 9:30 a.m. ET to consider the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

CNN reports that Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) will vote to confirm Kavanaugh.

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America, an influential Jesuit magazine, has rescinded its endorsement Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be on the Supreme Court.

“We continue to support the nomination of judges according to such principles—but Judge Kavanaugh is not the only such nominee available. For the good of the country and the future credibility of the Supreme Court in a world that is finally learning to take reports of harassment, assault and abuse seriously, it is time to find a nominee whose confirmation will not repudiate that lesson.”

Roll Call: “Well, that was a day. The lengthy hearing featuring testimony and questioning of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused him of sexual assault, has resulted in Republicans’ decision to go ahead with a confirmation vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday. “

“One important thing to note: Even if Kavanaugh does not secure majority support in the committee vote, his nomination can still make it to the floor. So even if the judge does not secure that 11th vote (the partisan breakdown is 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats), the majority leader can still get the nomination on the executive calendar. The committee could report it to the floor unfavorably, for instance, and still get it from that Dirksen Building hearing room to the Capitol.”

“Bottom line? Regardless of what happens in committee, we could still be in for a series of tough votes, starting Saturday, on the nomination.”

New York Times: “With millions of Americans alternately riveted and horrified by the televised drama, Dr. Blasey and Judge Kavanaugh left no room for compromise, no possibility of confusion, no chance that they remembered something differently. In effect, they asked senators to choose which one they believed. And in that moment, these two 100 percent realities came to embody a society divided into broader realities so disparate and so incompatible that it feels as if two countries are living in the borders of one.”

“It has become something of a cliché to say that the United States has become increasingly tribal in the era of President Trump, with each side in its own corner, believing what it chooses to believe and looking for reinforcement in the media and politics. But the battle over Judge Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination has reinforced those divisions at the intersection of sex, politics, power and the law.”

Emerging from a closed-door meeting late Thursday, GOP senators said the Senate Judiciary Committee would meet Friday morning to consider the nomination and a procedural vote by the full Senate would occur on Saturday, the Washington Post reports.