President Trump is arguing that Brett Kavanaugh should be treated as innocent until proven guilty, but with the Central Park Five and some political opponents Trump has disregarded due process.
Heidi Heitkamp is one of the most vulnerable senators up for re-election, trying to hold onto voters in a place that President Trump won big in 2016. She's under pressure over Kavanaugh's nomination.
Crowds gathered in protest on Capitol Hill and elsewhere after the release of the FBI report into an allegation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, ahead of the cloture vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
An initial vote Friday in the Senate will tells us if Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh gets to 50. That is the number of votes he would need for confirmation plus Vice President Pence's vote.
The Senate is poised to move President Trump's Supreme Court nominee one step closer to confirmation Friday. Steve Inskeep talks to White House spokesperson Kerri Kupec, who defends the nominee.
David Greene talks to Emily Yoffe, contributing editor at The Atlantic magazine, about the responsibility the public has to not only believe sexual assault survivors, but also to hear out the accused.
Lawyers for both sides gave the jury their final arguments Thursday in the murder trial of Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dyke in the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.