A U.S. House of Representatives committee will vote on Friday on whether to release dozens of transcripts of interviews from its investigation of Russia and the 2016 U.S. election, including conversations with senior associates of President Donald Trump.
When the nation was given a chance to hear from the judge on Thursday, he did nothing to shake the recent characterizations of him. He only confirmed them.
Bob Corker’s decision to vote in favor of this Brett Kavanaugh will forever taint his legacy as he prepares to leave office.
By the time she finished detailing her allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers, Ford was being widely praised as credible and brave.
Kavanaugh was so focused on defending himself from his accusers that he disqualified himself in another way by demonstrating that he is a political hack.
The three GOP senators – Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Jeff Flake – met Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin after the competing testimonies.
Kavanaugh tried to clean up his dismissal of her testimony by promising to watch it at a later time. Like much of what he said, that’s hard to believe.
In a crowded lounge at Yale Law School, cheers erupted when the middle-aged woman on the TV screen told a Senate panel that she had no doubt that Brett Kavanaugh, the Yale graduate nominated to the Supreme Court, had sexually assaulted her when they were teens.
Even while many in our culture are finding some measure of satisfaction and a sense of justice being done in the prison sentence doled out to Bill Cosby for his years of sexually predatory behavior, the GOP at least seems to have consciously decided, as a matter of political strategy, to take a hard-line against…
DID YOU DO THIS IN HIGH SCHOOL?
An Anti-Kavanaugh ad by the Agenda Project targeting middle age men in Arizona, Alaska, Maine, and Iowa with a saturation-level buy asks.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) masterfully backed Brett Kavanaugh into a corner and used his own statements against him on wanting an FBI investigation. It was so bad that Sen. Chuck Grassley had to rescue Kavanaugh.
Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony about the sexual assault allegations against him did not get off to a good start as the nominee complained that because of Democrats he may never be able to coach girls basketball again.
Coming to a Senate hearing room near you, Act II in the transition of the Supreme Court to merely a bit player in the Trump Reality Show. Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination reflects a broken confirmation process where the bulk of his background is effectively under seal, and the emphasis was on p.r. instead of his character…
The GOP is gone. There are no responsible Republicans anymore. There is no moral wing of the party preparing stand up for what’s right.
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) blasted Republicans in her opening remarks on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, reminding everyone that this is not a trial of Dr. Ford but a job interview for Brett Kavanaugh, and “Is he the best we can do?”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) accused Trump of engaging in a cover-up for Brett Kavanaugh by refusing to have the FBI investigate the sexual assault claims against the Supreme Court nominee.
Ronan Farrow disputed Republican Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley’s claim that Republicans submitted numerous requests to the other women who have made sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, citing Debbie Ramirez’s attorneys who claim that Republicans refused to even speak on the phone with them.
Republicans are going to regret ever pushing Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford destroyed Kavanaugh’s claim that she has the wrong guy.
By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A university professor detailed her allegations that Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump‘s Supreme Court nominee, sexually assaulted her 36 years ago during a momentous Senate hearing on Thursday that could determine whether he will be confirmed to the lifetime job after a pitched political battle. Christine…
“I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified. I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school,” Ford said, reading from her prepared testimony, her voice breaking with emotion.
With Christine Blasey Ford up against an all male panel being fronted by Rachel Mitchell, a registered Republican they brought in from Maricopa County in Arizona (home to injustice and cruelty), a fact depicted so brilliantly by a New York Times photo below, people flocked to send Christine Blasey Ford their support.
Senate Judiciary committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley began the hearing into Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her by attacking Sen. Dianne Feinstein, trying to discredit other accusers, and interrupting Feinstein’s opening statement.
Julie Swetnick, the third woman to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, is being represented by Michael Avenatti. After releasing her sworn statement yesterday, Avenatti went on Twitter this morning and posted some very important additional information. First of all, he posted the link to the first public interview given by Swetnick, wherein she discusses…
By Megan Davies NEW YORK (Reuters) – Politicians in America’s Rust Belt will likely struggle to capitalize on U.S. President Donald Trump‘s trade war in November’s congressional elections, with a September poll showing voters in the region are cool on the effect of tariffs. A Reuters/Ipsos/UVA Center for Politics Poll found that a plurality of…
A full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Wednesday lists the names of 1,600 men giving support to Brett Kavanaugh accuser Dr. Christine Ford. In a courageous move, Dr. Ford was the first woman to bring sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. “In 1991, 1,600 African-American women took out a full-page…
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would “certainly prefer not†to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. He also said that he might decide to delay a meeting with Rosenstein, the #2 person in the Justice Department. According to the president, Rosenstein has denied making the comments that were attributed to him in a…
The House Intelligence Committee will vote Friday to release the transcripts of more than 50 interviews the panel conducted as part of its investigation into Russian election meddling, the committee posted Wednesday. The interviews will include testimony from many prominent figures. Friday’s planned vote was scheduled by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes. After the vote,…
Republicans keep underestimating Michael Avenatti. They think if they call him a “porn star lawyer†he will go away. They don’t realize that he’s one of the top lawyers in the world and has won well over $1 billion in verdicts on behalf of his clients. He has always represented “the little guy†who sues…
The attorneys for Christine Ford have given the Senate Judiciary Committee the results of a polygraph test regarding her sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The results say that Ford passed the test administered at a Maryland hotel in August. “Kavanaugh accuser’s polygraph results conclude her account is ‘not indicative of deception’…
