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“What were the rules the agents were following? With the list of people the FBI was interviewing seemingly limited to four—Mark Judge, P. J. Smyth, Leland Keyser, and Deborah Ramirez—this looked less like a searching inquiry than a con job. Coons called Flake, asking if he had agreed that only four witnesses would be interviewed. No, Flake said: it would be done “by the book”—that phrase again.”
― Ruth Marcus, Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover

“No man actually owns a fortune; it owns him.”
― Gordon Thomas, The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster

“any senator, either, but one who had been his Yale Law School classmate.”
― Ruth Marcus, Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover

“all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary” is on point, and her anguished question is the most important of all: “Where’s the public confidence?”7”
― Ruth Marcus, Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover