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
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
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
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
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
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