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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.

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Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, speaks with reporters just after a deeply divided Senate pushed Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination past a key procedural hurdle, setting up a likely final showdown vote for Saturday, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Murkowski hopes Kavanaugh will rebuild public confidence

Sen. Lisa Murkowski defended her opposition Saturday to incoming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying she hoped he would find a way to get past the nastiness of recent weeks and push the high court toward more collegiality. Published October 6, 2018

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to U.S. Supreme Court

Senators confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Saturday in a vote lacking in drama but freighted with meaning, bringing to a close what senators called the nastiest confirmation battle in modern political history. Published October 6, 2018

First lady Melania Trump is greeted by Egyptian first lady Entissar Amer as she arrives at Cairo international airport, Egypt, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018. First lady Melania Trump is visiting Africa on her first big solo international trip. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Melania Trump gives thumbs-up to Kavanaugh

First lady Melania Trump on Saturday called Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh "high qualified" to earn a seat on the high court. Published October 6, 2018

Christine Blasey Ford and her attorneys Debra Katz, foreground left, and Michael Bromwich, foreground right, take a break during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Blasey Ford lawyers defend their handling of Kavanaugh accuser

Christine Blasey Ford wanted to speak to senators themselves in a closed-door session in California, not to Judiciary Committee investigators, her lawyers said Friday, pushing back on GOP claims that Brett Kavanaugh's chief accuser had been led astray. Published October 6, 2018

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Brett Kavanaugh Wall Street Journal op-ed caps chaotic confirmation

Brett M. Kavanaugh made a last-minute appeal to senators Thursday to elevate him to the Supreme Court, and Republicans were increasingly hopeful of corralling the votes this weekend to do just that, after an FBI investigation failed to back up several women's claims of sexual misconduct during his high school and college years. Published October 4, 2018

Sen. Maggie Hassan, N.H., arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Jackson Cosko caught after sneaking into Maggie Hassan’s office, police say

Jackson Cosko, the Democratic staffer accused of "doxxing" Republican senators during the Kavanaugh confirmation fight, was caught after he sneaked into a Senate Democrat's office earlier this week and tried to use one of their computers, police said in an affidavit made public Thursday. Published October 4, 2018

Police car lights. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

DACA ‘Dreamer’ arrested for smuggling meth

An illegal immigrant "Dreamer" in the U.S. under protection of the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty was arrested Tuesday on charges of trying to smuggle more than 17 pounds of methamphetamine through a Border Patrol checkpoint. Published October 4, 2018

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

The FBI was sending its new background check into Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Senate late Wednesday, and Republicans moved quickly to set up a first floor test, a vote to end a Democratic filibuster, for Friday. Published October 3, 2018

FILE - In this March 12, 2018 file photo, supporters of temporary protected status of immigrants cheer, hold signs and a banner with the outline of El Salvador at a rally at a federal courthouse in San Francisco, the day a lawsuit was filed against the Trump administration over its decision to end a program that lets immigrants live and work legally in the United States. During a hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen questioned the Trump administration's motives to end the program and repeated the president's vulgar language to describe some countries during a White House meeting in January. Chen is deciding whether to block the administration's decision to end temporary protected status for people from Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, and El Salvador. He did not immediately rule. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Judge Edward Chen blocks U.S. from ending temporary protected status for immigrants from 4 countries

A federal judge blocked the administration's attempt to cancel legal status for migrants from four countries, ruling Wednesday that President Trump poisoned the decision-making by calling them "s--hole" countries. The ruling means hundreds of thousands of migrants from Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Sudan, who were going to be forced to return to their home countries, can remain in the U.S. under special humanitarian protections. Published October 3, 2018

Shawn Gu and Julia Jiang, both of Beijing, take cell phone photographs using a light adaptor, Friday Sept. 28, 2018, in front of the U.S. Capitol during sunset in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Jackson A. Cosko, Democratic operative, charged with ‘doxxing’ senators

Jackson Cosko, the Democratic staffer accused of "doxing" Republican senators during the Kavanaugh confirmation fight, was caught after he sneaked into a Senate Democrat's office this week and tried to use a computer, police said in an affidavit made public Thursday. Published October 3, 2018