The Senate Judiciary Committee will ask the Trump administration to direct the FBI to conduct an investigation into the allegations of sexual assault made against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a statement from the committee released Friday said. “The supplemental FBI background investigation would be limited to current credible allegations against the nominee and must […]
President Donald Trump reacted to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s Senate Judiciary testimony Friday afternoon, telling reporters she was a “very credible witness” and a “very fine woman,” before changing course and suggesting Kavanaugh should be confirmed anyway. “I thought her testimony was very compelling and she looks like a very fine woman to me, very […]
The Senate should delay its floor vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh until a one-week FBI investigation can take place, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said Friday, just hours after saying he would vote in favor of Kavanaugh’s confirmation. “I think it would be proper to delay the floor vote for up to, but not […]
Less than 24 hours after hearing testimony from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford about allegations that she was sexually assaulted by Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the 1980s, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Friday to send Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court to the Senate floor. The committee advanced Kavanaugh’s nomination by a vote […]
After Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh complained his life had been ruined Thursday, the father of a Parkland shooting victim hit back in a tweet. “I’m never going to get my reputation back,” Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual assault or misconduct by three women, said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday. “My […]
Facebook announced on Friday afternoon that a “security issue” had led hackers to access nearly 50 million accounts. In a statement, Facebook VP of Product Management Guy Rosen announced that hackers had exploited a “vulnerability” in Facebook’s “View As” feature, which allows users to view their profiles from the vantage of another user. Rosen said […]
A day after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford publicly testified about her allegation of sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) offered a stunningly self-defeating defense of the judge. Cruz argued that if Kavanaugh was really a sexual predator, he’d likely face multiple allegations. Republicans are perpetrating a Kavanaugh coverup. This Democratic […]
Speaking during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Friday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) pointed out one specific way in which an FBI investigation could get to the bottom of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Republicans continue to claim — without evidence — that an FBI investigation wouldn’t […]
If you clicked on this piece because you’re looking for an argument that Judge Brett Kavanaugh is an unqualified hack, expect to be disappointed. Kavanaugh is something far more dangerous — a brilliant, hardworking, deeply ideological hack. If he’s confirmed to the Supreme Court, expect him to be extraordinarily effective in pushing a severely conservative […]
There are only four senators left who appear undecided about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The Senate Judiciary Committee is planning to vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation Friday afternoon, just one day after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified that he sexually assaulted her at a party when the two were in high school. The vote will […]
The moment U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh began his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, he sounded like a petulant, self-pitying frat boy. He defended his love of beer numerous times, saying, “Sometimes I had too many beers. Sometimes others did. I liked beer. I still like beer.” The hearings about […]
On September 17, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford — who at that time had just come forward to say Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her — “should not be insulted, and she should not be ignored.” Less than two weeks later, and following Dr. Ford’s public testimony about […]
Senate Republicans plan to plow forward with a vote in the Judiciary Committee to recommend Brett Kavanaugh for a lifetime Supreme Court appointment on Friday morning, ignoring Chistine Blasey Ford’s testimony on Thursday that he attempted to rape her in the 1980s. The GOP leadership has rejected calls for an FBI investigation or testimony from […]
SIOUX CITY, IOWA — Iowa’s 4th District is not exactly what you’d call ideal territory for a first-time Democratic congressional candidate. During the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump trounced Hillary Clinton throughout the district. For the past 16 years, it has been represented in Washington by far-right, anti-immigrant Republican Congressman Steve King. The strength of that conservative […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh for hours Thursday about an allegation that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford when they were both in high school in 1982. But lawmakers failed to ask Kavanaugh about a conspiracy theory put forward by a long-time friend and conservative operative that laid the blame […]
On Thursday, a teary-eyed Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified in great detail about having been sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as millions watched. “I believed he was going to rape me,” Ford said under oath. Ford pointedly recounted how Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge locked her in a bedroom, where the former pinned […]
Once upon a time, there was a group of Americans who called themselves “small-c conservatives.” And within that group, there were various credos, among them the sacred belief that the U.S. Constitution’s capacity to shepherd a large, complex nation through almost any crisis was limitless. For this long-ago tribe, the replacement of feudalistic notions of […]
Republican senators ditched a sex crimes prosecutor they hired to question Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who accused him of sexual assault, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, to personally apologize to and sympathize with Kavanaugh at a hearing Thursday. After all Senate Judiciary Republicans other than Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) ceded their time […]
As Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was providing her opening testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning, I had a hard time focusing on the exact words she was saying. I was distracted by the look of fear in her eyes, the way her voice quivered, the way she was intimately familiar with the […]
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh began his testimony at a hearing examining allegations that he sexually assaulted a young women in high school with an angry, 45-minute long rant. The judge was emotional, shrill, hysterical, and he would have looked so much more attractive if he’d smiled. He also revealed himself as a staunch partisan. […]
If Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh truly has not engaged in sexual misconduct, then he should welcome an FBI investigation to clear his name, multiple Democratic senators suggested during a hearing on Thursday. But when Kavanaugh was repeatedly urged to do so by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), he refused. Durbin pointed out that one of […]
Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday afternoon to respond to multiple allegations of sexual assault, and after angrily yelling about his soiled good name, Democrats on the committee, and Hillary Clinton, he started talking about beer. Lots and lots of beer. Kavanaugh’s fondness for hops was made abundantly clear in the […]
Late in Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh attempted to rape psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) became the first Republican senator to ask a question of a witness. His questions, such as they were, involved a lot of angry yelling. Lindsey Graham is having […]