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to administration policies AP’s review of Kavanaugh’s SYRIA Kavanaugh that circumvent Congress judicial record and decades continued from A1 and risk “a runaway execu- of his writings and speeches tive branch.” Yet he is defer- does not illuminate whether tice Elena Kagan, the Obama- ential to the presidency, an he would vote to overturn Syrian army massing era solicitor general who approach that raises ques- the Roe v. Wade decision hired him to teach at Har- tions about whether he establishing the right to abor- vard when she was dean of would protect special coun- tion. But his record suggests to finish off the rebels the law school, as well as sel Robert Mueller’s inves- he would vote to support with his prep school mate, tigation into alleged coor- restrictions. He’s spoken Justice Neil Gorsuch. Kava- dination between Trump’s admiringly of Justice Wil- Margaret Coker,Hwaida » MORE DETAILS » naugh’s law clerks have gone 2016 campaign and Russia liam Rehnquist’s dissent in Saad and Carlotta Gall on to work for liberal jus- if that matter came before the 1973 Roe v. Wade case, ©2018 The New YorkTimes U.N. officials say fighting could displace upward of tices. He’s served with Jus- the high court. yet recently told a senator 800,000 civilians from Idlib, yet there is no arrangement tice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in His mother, Martha Kava- that Roe is settled law. BAGHDAD — On land, Syr- to allow safe passage to those who want to escape the mock trials of characters in naugh, went on to become a ia’s government is muster- fighting. Shakespeare plays, a night prosecutor and state judge An evolution on ing thousands of conscripts Walid al-Moallem, the Syrian deputy prime minister, out from the real-life dramas. in Maryland, where Kava- ‘dastardly’ deeds to bolster its depleted forces. told Russian television on Saturday that any Syrian To critics, like Democrats naugh was raised as an only Amorein-your-face—yet At sea, a Russian naval flo- citizen who wanted to return to government-controlled on the Senate Judiciary Com- child, attending Georgetown still nuanced— figure emerges tilla is just offshore, ready territory would be welcome. mittee lining up to question Preparatory School as Gor- in a recently released August to intervene with formida- But many Idlib families believe that leaving the him, Kavanaugh’s collegial such did. 1998 memo to Starr urging ble firepower. In Idlib prov- province would lead to retribution and possible death disposition is “Much Ado that Clinton be asked blush- ince, millions of civilians are given their affiliation with the rebels. About Nothing” (Kavana- Up the ladder ingly explicit questions about dreading what comes next. In another grim twist, some of the Syrian forces ugh’s 2012 mock trial for Brett Michael Kavanaugh’s his sexual interactions with The adversaries in Syria’s massing for the Idlib battle are former rebels, who Washington’s Shakespeare career progression: law clerk intern Monica Lewinsky so long and merciless civil war laid down their arms against the government in Theatre Company, Ginsburg for federal appeals judges, as to understand a “pattern are preparing for another reconciliation deals. presiding). fellowship with then-Solic- of revolting behavior” and brutal offensive, and this one — NEW YORK TIMES “From the notorious itor General Kenneth Starr, give Congress more infor- may be the last. Starr report, to the Florida law clerk for Justice Anthony mation to decide whether The looming assault on recount, to the president’s Kennedy (with high-school Clinton should remain pres- Idlib province is the one secrecy and privilege claims classmate Gorsuch), asso- ident. As a lead investigator the government in Damas- caught in the middle of an major rebel stronghold, the to post-9/11 legislative battles ciate counsel in the Starr of the Republican-sparked cus hopes will deliver the attack. Turkey is hosting more victory would essentially end including the Victims Com- investigation, law-firm part- investigation, Kavanaugh also final military blow against than 3 million refugees from large-scale, armed opposi- pensation Fund, to ideologi- ner, Bush White House asso- floated expansive grounds the rebel fighters and their the civil war, and with an tion within Syria. But it would cal judicial nomination fights, ciate counsel, White House for impeaching a president, civilian supporters who rose economic crisis and growing hardly signal the end of the if there has been a partisan staff secretary, judge. He first a trigger of some concern to up more than seven years ago resentment against those Syr- conflict or its miseries. political fight that needed dated Ashley Estes, then Republicans now should an demanding regime change. ians already in the country, Secretary of State Mike a very bright legal foot sol- Bush’s personal secretary, appetite in Congress grow Where Syria and its Russian it does not want any more. Pompeo warned of large- dier in the last decade, Brett on Sept. 10, 2001; they mar- for Trump’s impeachment. and Iranian allies see a chance On a recent visit to Mos- scale catastrophe for civilians Kavanaugh was probably ried in 2004 and have two But in a memo later in to crush the remaining oppo- cow, the country’s foreign in Idlib. “The 3 million Syri- there,” New York Sen. Chuck daughters. 1998, he recommended sition, Western leaders warn minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, ans who have already been Schumer, now Senate Dem- He’s from a wealthy fam- the Starr investigation be of a humanitarian calamity called for more time for a forced out of their homes ocratic leader, said in 2006 ily. In 2005 his father earned brought to a close and its in Idlib, where an estimated Turkish plan to negotiate and are now in Idlib will suf- hearings that preceded Kava- just over $13 million in com- findings turned over to the 3 million civilians live. with the rebels in Idlib, fer from this aggression,” naugh’s confirmation as a pensation and a send-off next president. “We believe Many of the noncomba- including radical Islamist he wrote in a Twitter post judge on the U.S. Court of retirement package as the an indictment should not tants now in Idlib fled there groups. on Friday. “Not good. The Appeals for the District of cosmetic group’s president. be pursued while the Pres- from other parts of Syria, “A military solution there world is watching.” Columbia Circuit. But his own family’s finances ident is in Office,” Kavana- escaping the brutality of the would be a disaster,” Cavu- In another post the same His judicial record since? are apparently modest. ugh wrote, suggesting this government forces of Presi- soglu said at a news confer- day, Pompeo called out his With some ideological Public disclosure forms conclusion be reached by dent Bashar Assad. Tens of ence, standing beside Rus- Russian counterpart for sup- mashup, it’s been conser- for 2017 showed only two his colleagues. thousands were bused there sia’s foreign minister, Sergey porting the coming offensive. vative in the main, reflecting investments, together worth The Starr report did bring as part of surrender deals V. Lavrov. “Sergey Lavrov is defending views that could swing the a maximum of $65,000, on Clinton’s impeachment with the government. “Attacking the whole of Syrian and Russian assault on court right on abortion, gay along with the balance on by the House, for perjury The impending govern- Idlib to eliminate some radi- Idlib,” he wrote. “The Rus- rights, executive power and a loan of up to $15,000. As and obstruction of justice. ment offensive against what cal groups would mean caus- sians and Assad agreed not more for decades to come. well, the White House said The Senate acquitted Clinton are believed to be about ing the death of hundreds to permit this. The U.S. sees Kavanaugh heads into the he had $45,000 to $150,000 and he served out his term. 30,000 rebel fighters is a of thousands of people and this as an escalation of an hothouse of confirmation of credit card debt in 2016, Kavanaugh was also at “perfect storm coming up making 3.5 million people already dangerous conflict.” hearings representing the some of it from buying sea- the center of one of Starr’s in front of our eyes,” said leave their homes one more The State Department on hopes of President Donald son tickets to the Washing- many tangents, the investi- Staffan de Mistura, United time,” Cavusoglu added. Friday warned in a statement Trump and the right that he ton Nationals for himself and gation of the death of Fos- Nations special envoy to Syria. Over the last two years, that “the United States will will do just that. several friends. That debt ter, Clinton’s deputy White Turkey, too, is express- the Syrian army, with signif- respond to any chemical was paid off by last year, the House counsel. His ultimate ing grave concern about an icant help from Russia and weapons attack perpetrated His father’s son? White House said, and Kava- finding, embraced by Starr, attack, worried it will bear Iran, has regained control by the Syrian regime.” E. Edward Kavanaugh, 77, naugh was reimbursed for was that Foster killed him- the brunt of the humanitar- over large areas. With much Despite these international was a fixture in the Wash- the friends’ tickets. self, and nothing was found ian and security fallout. of the country now back in pleas, Syrian and Russian ington influence game years connecting his death to the The country has troops in its grip, the government can officials over the weekend before Trump began calling it The million-page man Clintons, as the conspiracy Idlib, with the aim of separat- turn its attention to Idlib. were openly preparing to a swamp. Brett Kavanaugh’s The National Archives has theories had it. Yet the mere ing Syrian and rebel forces, If the government were to oust the formidable rebel dad lobbied for the Cosmetic, millions of pages of records fact Starr took on that mat- and its soldiers could be retake the province, the last forces in the province. Toiletry and Fragrance Asso- concerning Kavanaugh and ter and Kavanaugh pursued ciation, the national trade he’s only 53. That’s how it gave those conspiracy the- group for companies mak- plugged in he was in Wash- ories enough credence to ing personal care products. ington even before becom- persist, which they still do. He fought against govern- ing a federal judge. A decade later, in his 2006 ment regulation and advo- Kavanaugh put his stamp confirmation hearings, Kava- 2 reporters sentenced to 7 years in jail cates who wanted cosmet- on investigations of the 1993 naugh said he came to real- ics-testing stopped on ani- suicide of Clinton aide Vince ize it was a mistake for a spe- Associated Press Oo had been reporting on Stephen Adler, Reuters edi- mals, calling those activists Foster and the late 1990s cial counsel investigation to the brutal crackdown on the tor-in-chief, said in a state- “zealots who cannot com- Clinton-Lewinsky impeach- grow so broad, as if “Judge , MYANMAR — A Rohingya when they were ment. prehend that a child’s life is ment episode as a member Starr was somehow the per- Myanmar court sentenced arrested and charged with The two journalists had more important than a dog’s.” of special counsel Starr’s manent special investigator two Reuters journalists to violating the colonial-era Offi- been reporting last year “He is known by my col- team, served on the Repub- of the administration.” Such seven years in prison Monday cial Secrets Act, punishable on the brutal crackdown leagues in Congress as a lican legal team in the Bush prosecutorial reports, he on charges of illegal posses- by up to 14 years in prison. by security forces on the straight shooter,” Republi- v. Gore election stalemate of said, can damage people’s sion of official documents, a They had pleaded not guilty, Rohingya in Myanmar’s can Sen. Orrin Hatch said 2000 and had a quiet hand in reputations and the credibil- ruling met with international contending that they were . Some 700,000 of Brett Kavanaugh’s father White House national secu- ity of the investigation itself. condemnation that will add framed by police. Rohingya fled to neighboring in supporting the son’s con- rity and terrorism policy in And in 2009, he wrote in to outrage over the military’s “Today is a sad day for Bangladesh after attacks by firmation as a federal judge the crucible of 9/11 and the the Minnesota Law Review human rights abuses against Myanmar, Reuters journalists Rohingya militants killed a in 2006. “In this case, the wars that followed. that the country would have Rohingya Muslims. and , dozen members of the secu- apple did not fall far from Archivists couldn’t process been better off if investiga- Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe and the press everywhere,” rity forces. the tree.” so many records for release tors such as Starr and him- An AP review of Kavana- in time for the hearings as self had let Clinton focus on ugh’s dozen years on the Republican lawmakers push Osama bin Laden and other D.C. appeals court and his to get him confirmed before issues of the day rather than wider public record shows the November elections that become entangled in a crim- him opposed to a variety of could switch Senate control inal probe. Put off criminal regulations, on greenhouse to Democrats. investigation until a presi- gases and more, as well as Altogether, a mountain dent is out of office, he sug- to the structure of the Con- of material on Kavanaugh gested. “If the President does U.S. EPA Proposes Interim Cleanup Action sumer Financial Protection has emerged and an even something dastardly, the Details to be Presented at Open House and Public Meeting Bureau established after the larger mountain is yet to be impeachment process is Behr Dayton Superfund Site 2008 financial crisis, and revealed. available.” Dayton, Ohio

Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018

IN BRIEF Public Hearing: 6 p.m. Kiser Elementary School, Cafeteria, 1401 Leo St. IOWA has been killed and another day when two boats crashed Comment Period: Sept. 5 – Oct. 5, 2018 Marchagainst oil wounded in an apparent head-on and sank in the Col- insider attack in eastern orado River was pulled from pipelineunderway U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to clean up groundwater Afghanistan, according to a the water Monday as the contamination and reduce exposure from soil vapor at the Behr Dayton Thermal About two dozen environ- statement Monday from the search for the others con- System VOC Plume site in Dayton, Ohio. U.S. EPA is proposing to inject air into the mental demonstrators are NATO-led Resolute Support tinued, the sheriff’s office contaminated groundwater to strip harmful chemicals from the groundwater as a vapor undertaking a 100-mile march mission. Resolute Support and in Mohave County, Ariz., (a process called air sparging). These gases would then travel into the air spaces in the in Iowa to the Dakota U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Com- said. Officials identified the soil abovethe water tablewherethey would be captured by vacuum wells,sent through a Access oil pipeline. The Des manding Gen. Scott Miller says victim as Christi Lewis, 51, treatment system, and then released into the air. Moines Register reports that “the sacrifice of our service of California, but released they began their eight-day member, who volunteered no other information about U.S. EPA officials will make a formal presentation and accept written andoral trek Saturday in Des Moines. for a mission to Afghanistan her. She had been missing comments at a public hearing at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 20, at Advocacy groups Bold Iowa to protect his country is a since about 8 p.m. Satur- Kiser Elementary School cafeteria. and Indigenous Iowa orga- tragic loss for all who knew day when a northbound nized the march to show unity and all who will now never Hallet boat carrying 10 peo- The federal Agency will publish a final cleanup plan after all public comments are against the $3.8 billion, four- know him.” He added, “Our ple collided with a south- reviewed. A summary of the studies and the proposed cleanup plan are available for state pipeline. Protesters plan duty now is to honor him, bound Sleekcraft with six review at www.epa.gov/superfund/behr-dayton-thermal and at the E.C. Doren Public to walk 10-15 miles a day, com- care for his family and con- aboard, officials said. The Library, 701 Troy St. The proposed cleanup plan may be modified based on new pleting the march Saturday tinue our mission.” The state- crash occurred on the Cali- information or public comments, so your opinion is important. in Fort Dodge. Protesters ment said the service member fornia-Arizona border north have pushed back against was the sixth American killed of Lake Havasu. All 16 were You can comment several ways: the pipeline for years. But in Afghanistan this year. The thrown into the fast-mov- • Attend the public meeting on Sept. 20 at 6 p.m. and submit a written or a U.S. Army Corps of Engi- wounded service member was ing river as the two boats oral statement. neers study of the pipeline said to be in stable condition. sank. Several people were • Mail written statements to Heriberto León, EPA, (mail code SI-6J), released last week says it Their names were not released. pulled from the water by 77 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. • Email comments to [email protected]. poses no significant threats. ASSOCIATED PRESS other boaters. One criti- • Fax to 312-697-2754. ASSOCIATED PRESS cally injured woman was ARIZONA flown to a Las Vegas hospi- Comments must be postmarked/received by Friday, Oct. 5. WASHINGTON Bodyrecoveredin tal, officials said. The boats hit head-on while traveling Servicemember ColoradoRivercrash For more information, visit www.epa.gov/superfund/behr-dayton-thermal. For special about 50 mph, according to accommodations at the meeting, please contact Heriberto León at 800-621-8431, killed in Afghanistan The body of one of four an emergency dispatcher. Ext. 66163, or [email protected], 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., weekdays. A U.S. service member people missing since Satur- TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE