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posted by takyon on Saturday October 06 2018, @08:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the let-'er-rip dept.

Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The vote was 50-48 in favor of Kavanaugh.

Senators Collins, Flake, and Manchin had already announced their intentions to confirm Kavanaugh before the vote was held. Senator Lisa Murkowski, who was previously ready to vote "no", agreed to vote "present" instead so that Senator Steve Daines could attend his daughter's wedding instead of being present in the Senate to support Kavanaugh.

SCOTUSBlog: Kavanaugh confirmed as 114th justice
Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court

Previously: SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire
President Trump Nominates Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court
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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 06 2018, @09:40PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday October 06 2018, @09:40PM (#745192) Homepage

    Even Thomas Harris hates the Roma, he (is an American expat who feel in love with living in Italy) doesn't call them "Gypsies" in his book but he goes to great lengths to discuss how scummy the Roma are:

    " Romula's Italian was passable, as was her French, English, Spanish, and
    Romany. She spoke without affect her best theatrics had not prevented this
    three-month term for picking pockets.
    She went behind the screen. In a plastic bag concealed in the baby's swaddling
    clothes were forty cigarettes and sixty-five thousand lire, a little more than
    forty-one dollars, in ragged notes...
    Romula's business was reading the street for a living, and pick-pocketing was
    a subset of that. She was a weathered thirty-five and she had antennae like
    the great luna moth. This policeman-she studied him over the screen-look how
    neat, the wedding ring, the shined shoes, lived with his wife but had a good
    maid-his collar stays were put in after the collar was ironed. Wallet in the
    jacket pocket, keys in the right front trouser, money in the left front
    trouser folded flat probably with a rubber band around. "