The conservative assault on women’s basic human rights just doesn’t stop. And just as the GOP hired Arizona-based sex-crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to serve as a kind of figleaf to cover the obscene nakedness of their shameful misogyny, we also see Republican-aligned women coming out in full force to play an identity-politics game geared toward…
Donald Trump and the Senate Republicans won’t be able to rig the reopening of Brett Kavanaugh’s background check as it will be the FBI, not the White House or Republicans who will determine which sexual assault allegations are investigated.
The top-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) made it clear that no matter how Kavanaugh’s confirmation process ends if Democrats win back the House, they’re doing an investigation.
The number two Republican in the Senate. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has confirmed that there will be an FBI investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.
The Russians are always looking for ways to divide and weaken America, and Republicans have handed them a new one by pushing the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.
Democratic Senators Maize Hirono, Kamala Harris, and Richard Blumenthal were among those who got up and walked on a Senate Judiciary committee meeting to vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) was confronted and berated by survivors of sexual assault in an elevator after he announced his support for Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, one of the key senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee, just issued a statement saying he will vote yes on Brett Kavanaugh‘s Supreme Court nomination. The news was first reported by CNN. His statement said in part: “After hearing more than 30 hours of testimony from Judge Kavanaugh earlier this…
In her testimony yesterday Dr. Christine Ford made clear that even though she sent her sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh to Democrats in Congress, she viewed herself as nonpartisan. “I am nobody’s pawn,†she said. But Republicans weren’t buying it. Over the course of Thursday’s hearing partisan tensions grew to a boiling point as…
If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed by the Senate it doesn’t mean he’ll definitely sit on the high court for life. Given the credible allegations against him, it is very possible that he would later be impeached from the Supreme Court. He might also be charged with sex crimes in the state of Maryland, and eventually…
Just before midnight eastern time last night, it was reported that the American Bar Association (ABA) sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking committee Democrat Dianne Feinstein (Calif). In this letter the top lawyer group in the country argued that it was time for the FBI to step…
Just like with last year’s vote on Obamacare, Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation will all come down to Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. Two GOP senators must vote against Kavanaugh for his confirmation to fail, and these two women senators are the only ones in their party ever to vote against the wishes of Mitch McConnell and…
