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Death row inmate wants new trial in homicide case

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Pennsylvania resident Rose Mary Knick speaks outside the Supreme Court, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 in Washington, alongside her attorneys J. David Breemer, left, Brian Hodges and Christina Martin. Knick is at the center of a case the Supreme Court is hearing that stems from her dispute with her town over an ordinance that says landowners who have cemeteries on their properties must make them open to the public during daylight hours. (AP Photo/Jessica Gresko)

Supreme Court sympathetic to Pa. woman in cemetery case

By JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press

More than 500 lawsuits against acne drug maker are dismissed

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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (Tom Williams/Pool Image via AP)

Brett Kavanaugh filibuster vote set for Friday

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. participates in an interview at the The Atlantic's 'The Constitution in Crisis' forum in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

The Latest: Ford’s lawyers criticize scope of FBI probe

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In this Sept. 27, 2018, photo, Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh gives his opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kavanaugh is blaming the Clintons for the sexual misconduct allegations against him. In doing so, the judge is drawing new attention to his time on the Kenneth Starr team investigating Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct in the 1990s. And he’s shown he can deliver a Trump-like broadside against detractors even if it casts him in a potentially partisan light. (Saul Loeb/Pool Image via AP)

Kavanaugh’s ‘revenge’ theory spotlights past with Clintons

By LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Christine Blasey Ford will only give documents to FBI

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 6, 2018, file photo, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks before President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Cory Booker on Brett Kavanaugh: ‘Innocent or guilty,’ Trump should pick someone else

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. participates in an interview at the The Atlantic's 'The Constitution in Crisis' forum in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Jeff Flake critiques Kavanaugh’s ‘sharp and partisan’ rhetoric at Senate hearing

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks about Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Latest: Accusers’ lawyers question FBI investigation

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"It shouldn't take long," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said of the Kavanaugh background check. "That'll not be used as another reason for delay, I can tell you that," he added.

Chuck Schumer, Democrats want Kavanaugh’s FBI report to become public

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

GOP says FBI report will be secret; Dems say issue now is Kavanaugh credibility

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

West Virginia House Judiciary Chairman John Shott, right, back to camera, questions Supreme Court Justice Beth Walker, center, during her Impeachment trial in Charleston, W.Va. A West Virginia Supreme Court justice says her impeachment trial should never have happened. Walker testified Monday she thinks impeachable offenses include stealing, lying and corruption. She says, &quot;I don't think I've done any of those things.&quot; (Kenny Kemp/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)

West Virginia senators: Impeached justice can keep job

By JOHN RABY - Associated Press

Protesters demonstrate outside a political event hosting U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona, in Manchester, N.H., Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. Flake, days after a critical vote in support of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, made his second visit this year to New Hampshire. The visit will once again stoke suggestions that he might run against President Trump in 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Alicia Keys, Michael Stipe, others join #CancelKavanaugh protest in Washington

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

U.S. Sens. Cory Booker (L) and Kamala Harris (R) chat as Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party 36 years ago, testifies before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Sept. 27, 2018.(Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Kamala Harris, in the Judiciary cloak room, with letter accusing Brett Kavanaugh of rape

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Vernon Madison. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the case of Madison who lawyers say suffers from dementia and can no longer remember killing a police officer in 1985. Justices will hear arguments Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, on whether it would be unconstitutional to execute 68-year-old Madison who was convicted of killing Mobile police officer Julius Schulte in 1985. The U.S. Supreme Court has said death row prisoners have &quot;rational understanding&quot; that they are about to be executed and why. (Alabama Department of Corrections, via AP, File)

Supreme Court could limit execution of people with dementia

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks about Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Lawyers for Kavanaugh accusers question FBI’s thoroughness

By ALAN FRAM and MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd as he finishes speaking at a rally Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Johnson City, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

The Latest: Attorney blasts Trump for mocking Ford at rally

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Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, from left, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and other minority members, appeal to Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to delay the confirmation hearing of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Democrats in glass house as they toss stones at Brett Kavanaugh

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times