Tipsheet: Kavanaugh confirmation faces fresh uncertainties

View in your browser     Kavanaugh confirmation faces fresh uncertainties BY LYDIA WHEELER, JORDAIN CARNEY AND ALEXANDER BOLTON   The confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is headed into another week of uncertainty after Senate GOP leaders on Friday afternoon delayed a vote to end debate on his nomination. Read the full story here     How Flake came to secure Kavanaugh delay BY ALEXANDER BOLTON, JORDAIN CARNEY AND LYDIA WHEELER    Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) on Friday secured an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, delaying his Supreme Court nomination for a week. Here's how Flake reached his decision and forced the delay. Read the full story here     McConnell says Kavanaugh nomination moving forward as Trump approves FBI probe BY JORDAIN CARNEY Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Friday that the Senate is moving forward with Brett Kavanaugh's nomination, even as President Trump agreed to GOP leaders' request for the FBI to reopen its background check into the Supreme Court nominee. Read the full story here     Lawyer for Kavanaugh accuser: FBI probe should not have 'artificial' limits BY JORDAIN CARNEY Debra Katz, a lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford, said Friday that "artificial limits" should not be placed on the FBI as it reopens its background investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.  Read the full story here       Trump and son signal support for McCarthy as next Speaker BY SCOTT WONG At a private fundraiser at his namesake hotel, President Trump on Thursday night appeared to back Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to be the next Speaker, several attendees told The Hill. Read the full story here     Senate GOP guards its majority as Dems spend big BY REID WILSON AND LISA HAGEN Six weeks before Election Day, Republicans who once hoped to bolster their narrow majority in the Senate are now retrenching in hopes of holding on, buffeted by a worsening national environment and big-spending Democrats exercising their financial advantages. Read the full story here     House cancels October votes, heads home to campaign BY MELANIE ZANONA House Republicans announced Friday they were canceling all votes for October and leaving for home, recessing with two weeks left on their October schedule to provide candidates with more time to campaign before the midterm elections. Read the full story here     Top consumer bureau official blasts colleague over blog posts dismissing racism BY SYLVAN LANE The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official in charge of fair lending is pulling her support for a top agency aide over blog posts he wrote that dismissed hate crimes and used racial slurs. Read the full story here     Trump signs spending bill, preventing shutdown BY NIV ELIS President Trump on Friday signed an $854 billion spending package that will avert a shutdown by keeping the federal government open into the new fiscal year, which begins Monday. Read the full story here     CNN founder Ted Turner: Network 'sticking with politics a little too much' BY JOHN BOWDEN CNN founder Ted Turner says his former network now focuses "too much" on politics, and that he wishes the company would strive for more "balanced" programming between politics and other news. Read the full story here     Burden is on Avenatti to show proof, or face consequences BY ALAN DERSHOWITZ OPINION | Now that the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to send Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the floor of the Senate and to allow a week of further investigation, there is no excuse for not thoroughly, fully investigating this charge along with others. Read the full story here     Four legal takeaways from a sad day for the Supreme Court BY KIMBERLY WEHLE OPINION | It was difficult to watch a terrified Christine Blasey Ford recount the sexual assault she allegedly experienced as a 15-year-old girl. It was difficult to watch Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s emotional, sometimes vitriolic defense of his reputation. Perhaps most of all, it was difficult to watch the Senate in its utter brokenness, unable to dignify a process that should be as close to sacred as anything under our Constitution. Read the full story here     The New York Times: How the F.B.I. Will Investigate the Kavanaugh Accusations By Adam Goldman and Rebecca R. Ruiz The renewed F.B.I. background check of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh over allegations of sexual assault will be relatively limited, relying on voluntary interviews and document production. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: Theodore McCarrick, Washington’s disgraced ex-cardinal, moves to church housing in Kansas By Chico Harlan and Julie Zauzmer Theodore McCarrick, the first cardinal in U.S. history to resign because of sexual abuse allegations, will remain in church housing. But he’ll be a long way from Washington, where he served as archbishop and as a frequent friend of those in power from 2001 to 2006 and remained a globe-trotting church diplomat long after. Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: Mexico Pushes to Keep Canada in Nafta By William Mauldin and Santiago Pérez   Mexico’s president-elect said he will push to keep Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement, as Mexican officials scrambled to try to broker a last-minute deal between Washington and Ottawa.   Read the full story here     CNN: Indonesia tsunami and earthquake kill 384, leave hundreds injured By Nicole Chavez and Mochammad Andri     Rescue workers are hunting for survivors after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and triggered a tsunami, killing at least 384 people. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: What comes next in Facebook’s major data breach By Matt O’Brien and Mae Anderson For users, Facebook’s revelation of a data breach that gave attackers access to 50 million accounts raises an important question: What happens next? Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up for The Hill Tipsheet       Forward this Tipsheet     You might like         Privacy Policy  |  Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe  |  Email to a friend  |  Sign Up for Other Newsletters   The Hill 1625 K Street, NW 9th Floor, Washington DC 20006 ©2016 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.