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Kavanaugh in memo
argued against indicting
sitting president
2016 election.
On Friday, Senate
Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell said he hopes
WASHINGTON
— to have President Don-
Confirmation hearings for ald Trump’s nominee con-
Supreme Court nominee firmed to replace retired
Justice Anthony
Brett Kavanaugh
Kennedy before
will begin the
the new court
day after Labor
session begins
Day, Republi-
cans said, spark-
Oct. 1.
ing Democratic
“ W e ’ r e
objections that
moving
right
along,” McCon-
they are rush-
nell said during
ing the process
a radio inter-
without properly
view in Ken-
delving into his Kavanaugh
tucky ahead of
background.
The announcement Fri- the announcement. “He’ll
day came amid the release get confirmed. It won’t be
of new documents from a landslide, but he’ll get
Kavanaugh’s time on the confirmed.”
The Judiciary Commit-
Kenneth Starr team inves-
tigating Bill Clinton. The tee will hold up to four
records reveal his resis- days of review, with Kava-
tance to issuing an indict- naugh to begin facing
ment of a sitting president. questions on Day 2, Sept.
On Christmas Eve 5, said committee chair-
1998, Kavanaugh drafted man Sen. Chuck Grassley.
an “Overall Plan” to col- Kavanaugh’s appearance
leagues providing his will be followed by testi-
thoughts on bringing mony from legal experts
the independent coun- and people who know the
sel office’s work to a judge.
The White House,
close and suggesting they
inform the attorney gen- which is determined to
eral that the findings have Kavanaugh con-
against Clinton be left to firmed before the Novem-
ber elections as Repub-
the next president.
“We believe an indict- licans aim to deliver
ment should not be pur- on Trump’s priorities,
sued while the President applauded the schedule
is in Office,” Kavanaugh announcement. But Dem-
ocrats want access to more
wrote.
The memo, tucked documents from Kavana-
toward the end of nearly ugh’s past as a judge and
10,000 pages, provides as an official in the George
greater insight into Kava- W. Bush administration.
naugh’s views on exec-
Grassley, R-Iowa, said
utive power that are there’s “plenty of time”
expected to feature prom- to review documents but
inently in the Senate con- now it’s time for Amer-
firmation hearings. Dem- icans “to hear directly”
ocrats have warned that from Kavanaugh.
Kavanaugh
may
be
“He’s a mainstream
unwilling to protect spe- judge,” Grassley said. “He
cial counsel Robert Muel- has a record of judicial
ler’s ongoing probe of independence and apply-
Russian interference in the ing the law as it is written.”
By LISA MASCARO
and MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
AP Photo/Michael Burke
Homes destroyed by a wildfire are seen from an aerial view in the Keswick neighborhood of Redding, Calif., Fri-
day. Fire crews have made progress against the biggest blaze in California history but officials say the fire won’t
be fully contained until September.
Flames close in on neighborhoods
LAKE
ELSINORE,
Calif. (AP) — Firefighters
fought to spare homes Fri-
day from a growing South-
ern California forest fire, a
day after flames came per-
ilously close to neighbor-
hoods and destroyed one
house.
Gov.
Jerry
Brown
declared a state of emer-
gency for Orange and Riv-
erside counties as the fire
carved its way along ridges
in Cleveland National For-
est south of Los Angeles.
Some hillsides were allowed
to burn under the watch-
ful eyes of firefighters as a
way to reduce fuel and make
it harder for flames to jump
roadways into communities
if winds pick up again.
Aircraft dropped fire
retardant on flames and
homes as people ignoring
evacuation orders used gar-
den hoses to spray down
their properties when the
blaze flared Thursday eve-
ning, propelled by 20-mph
gusts.
San Francisco jury backs man who claims Roundup
weed killer caused cancer, Monsanto to pay $289M
By PAUL ELIAS
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — A
San Francisco jury on Fri-
day ordered agribusiness
giant Monsanto to pay $289
million to a former school
groundskeeper dying of
cancer, saying the compa-
ny’s popular Roundup weed
killer contributed to his
disease.
Dewayne Johnson’s law-
suit was the first of hun-
dreds of cases filed in state
and federal courts alleg-
ing that Roundup causes
non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,
which Monsanto denies.
Jurors in state Supe-
rior Court agreed the prod-
uct contributed to Johnson’s
cancer and the company
should have provided a
label warning of the poten-
tial health hazard. Johnson’s
attorneys sought and won
$39 million in compen-
satory damages and $250
million of the $373 mil-
lion they wanted in punitive
damages.
“This jury found Mon-
santo acted with malice
and oppression because
they knew what they were
doing was wrong and doing
it with reckless disregard
for human life,” said Rob-
ert F. Kennedy Jr., a mem-
ber of Johnson’s legal team.
“This should send a strong
message to the boardroom
of Monsanto.”
BRIEFLY
Stone associate
held in contempt
in Russia probe
WASHINGTON
(AP)
— An associate of former
Trump campaign adviser
Roger Stone was held in
contempt of court Friday in
a fresh attempt to challenge
Robert Mueller’s appoint-
ment as the special counsel
investigating Trump cam-
paign contacts with Russia
during the 2016 presidential
campaign.
The move also spotlighted
a growing focus by Mueller
on Stone. Another of Stone’s
associates, a New Yorker
known as the “Manhattan
Madam” because she once
operated an upscale escort ser-
vice, was expected to make
her first appearance before a
grand jury in the case.
Paul Kamenar, the attor-
ney for Stone associ-
ate Andrew Miller, whose
refusal to appear before the
grand jury Friday led him to
be held in contempt, argued
after the proceedings that
Mueller’s appointment is
unconstitutional. He asserted
that Deputy Attorney Gen-
eral Rod Rosenstein did not
have the authority to appoint
Mueller to lead the investi-
gation into Trump campaign
contacts with Russia.
Previous challenges to
Mueller’s legitimacy have
failed. President Donald
Trump has sought to under-
mine the investigation by
calling it a “witch hunt” and
a “hoax.” He has repeat-
edly insisted, “there was no
collusion.”
Former staffer’s
book blasts Trump
as bigot, ‘dog’
BRIDGEWATER,
N.J.
(AP) — Former White House
staffer Omarosa Manigault
Newman claims in a new
book that there are tapes of
President Donald Trump using
racial slurs and that she saw
him behaving “like a dog off
the leash” at numerous events
he attended without his wife,
first lady Melania Trump.
The accusations are among
a long list of scandalous claims
contained in her new book,
“Unhinged,” set to come out
Aug. 14. The Associated Press
purchased an early copy of
the memoir, which the White
House has already slammed
as “riddled with lies and false
accusations.”
In the book, Manigault
Newman, who was a con-
testant on Trump’s “The
Apprentice” reality show
and later served as a senior
adviser to the president,
hurls a litany of allega-
tions, painting the president
as scattered, self-absorbed,
misogynistic and insecure.
Trump, she said she’d con-
cluded after years of defend-
ing him, was a bigot.
“I didn’t want to believe
it,” she writes. “I rejected what
other people said about him
because they didn’t know him
like I did. I had to go through
the pain of witnessing his rac-
ism with my own eyes.”
Monsanto has denied
a link between the active
ingredient in Roundup —
glyphosate — and cancer,
saying hundreds of studies
have established that gly-
phosate is safe.
Monsanto
spokesman
Scott Partridge said the
company will appeal. Par-
tridge said scientific studies
and two government agen-
cies have concluded that
Roundup does not cause
cancer.
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