It looks increasingly likely that the severely hamstrung FBI investigation of Brett Kavanaugh has done the trick. With moderate Republicans signaling that they believe the FBI investigation was "thorough", Kavanaugh is likely to survive the vote in the Senate that will be divided ...read more
Maine Senator Susan Collins has been at the center of much of the debate surrounding the vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. In the past, Collins has bolted party lines to vote with the Democrats, most memorably in the summer of 2017 when she sided with ...read more
With under a week to investigate serious accusations of attempted rape by potential Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh, the FBI was never going to produce anything meaningful. Worse than that, we now know that the investigation was a sham, orchestrated by the GOP and the Trump ...read more
As Bob Cesca routinely points out in his work here at the Banter, Donald Trump always makes things worse for Donald Trump. And this week, Trump's self destructive tendencies were on full display as he took time at a rally in Mississippi to mock Christine Blasey Ford's testimony ...read more
To Andrew Sullivan, Kavanaugh behaved like an innocent man during the Senate hearing, but to most victims of sexual assault, he behaved as any guilty person would have done. How can I say this with confidence? Because I was sexually assaulted as a teenager in boarding school in ...read more
Let's just say for a moment that Brett Kavanaugh is innocent of the sexual assault charges leveled against him by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Julie Swetnik, and Deborah Ramirez. We could for example, envision a scenario where all the women mistakenly identified Kavanaugh as their ...read more
If Lindsey Graham is any indication, Senate Republicans are absolutely furious after Dr. Christine Ford gave her testimony on Thursday. Hoping to have a female lawyer discredit her like she was on trial, Dr. Ford instead gave a brutally honest and credible account of what ...read more
Last night, just as the country was preparing to watch Brett Kavanaugh stumble his way through his interview with Democrats and Dr. Christine Ford be grilled by a lawyer like she's a criminal, two men have "heroically" stepped forward to claim that they were the two men who tried ...read more
As the right furiously tries to justify putting a sexual predator on the Supreme Court, they've been flailing in all directions looking for something that will work. From claiming it didn't happen to the laughable claim it was someone else to flat out saying every boy in high ...read more
There are only three areas of bipartisan consensus in America anymore: the sun is hot, water is wet, and Ted Cruz is a terrible person. Democrats have hated him since he was elected Senator in 2012, and Republicans haven't been much nicer - as Lindsey Graham said, "if you killed ...read more
The 2018 midterms are potentially America's last chance to hold Donald Trump and his corrupt administration to account. But now, they have also become a referendum on Brett Kavanaugh and the sham hearings Republicans have foisted upon us. There were many red flags against ...read more
The Trump White House and GOP is scrambling to defend Brett Kavanaugh as new sexual assault allegations emerge against their Supreme Court nominee. The latest accusations against Kavanaugh come from a devout Catholic Yale graduate, Deborah Ramirez, who alleges the judge put his ...read more
Last Friday, Anderson Cooper 360 aired a panel discussion led by CNN correspondent Randi Kaye where she talked with five Republican women about the allegations made against Judge Brett Kavanaugh by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. She started out by asking if they believed Kavanaugh ...read more
Over the past few days, Republicans have tied themselves in knots to defend Brett Kavanaugh from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who accused him of attempting to rape her when they were in high school. The GOP has trotted out all kinds of excuses, from the letter signed by 65 of ...read more
Dinesh D'Souza, the convicted criminal and hard right's favorite token minority, has been doing his part to smear Christine Ford ahead of the Brett Kavanaugh hearing. He is now blaming her for being sexually assaulted, because she was potentially involved in "hookups and binge ...read more
In 2018, Republicans have come a long way when it comes to their basic sense of decency. Back in 2016, they were absolutely fine with electing a self confessed sexual predator to the highest office in the land. In 2017, they were fine with electing an alleged pedophile to the US ...read more