There’s been a spate of “effective immediately” media separations in the last 24 hours: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell was the first domino to fall, then came Tucker Carlson at Fox News, and then Don Lemon at CNN. All for the same issue.
The Federalist Society’s black tie attendees were blasted with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s disturbing testimony about Justice Kavanaugh’s sexual assault as they entered the annual gala at which Kavanaugh was the keynote speaker.
Donald Trump spends more time pushing boundaries than attending to affairs of state. That ranges from sublime efforts to erase what passes for etiquette on social media to the more consequential, such as badgering the white men who almost exclusively comprise Trump’s GOP in Congress and the Cabinet. They cower shamelessly as their lord and…
The FBI only interviewed nine of the ten witnesses they were allowed, and they didn’t bother with witnesses who confirmed other accusations against Kavanaugh. The FBI also didn’t use the entire week.
This might seem like just another Trump scandal, another horrible person he’s put into power, but it’s so much more than that.
White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway told reporters Tuesday morning that Trump’s labor secretary Alex Acosta is doing a great job in the wake of the new Jeffrey Epstein child sex trafficking indictment.
It’s happening again.
The media is paving the way for Donald Trump to win 2020 with lazy, or perhaps purposeful, false equivalencies aimed at the top Democratic possible for 2020.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Martha McSally, who served as an Air Force pilot, said on Wednesday she had been raped by a superior officer. “The perpetrators abuse their position of power in profound ways, and in one case I was preyed upon and then raped by a superior officer,” she said during a Senate…
A nun and a woman journalist delivered the toughest criticism of Church leaders heard so far at Pope Francis’ sexual abuse conference on Saturday, accusing them of hypocrisy and covering up horrendous crimes against children.
Sexual abuse by officials in positions of authority in North Korea appears to be “endemic”, a watchdog group reported on Thursday, as activists complain the isolated country’s rights record is being ignored amid an international push to improve relations.
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – Indiana’s attorney general will not face criminal charges after a special prosecutor investigated claims by four women that he groped them at a party, an attorney for the women said on Tuesday. Special prosecutor Daniel Sigler was appointed to investigate the allegations against state Attorney General Curtis Hill, a Republican…
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The archbishop of Washington D.C. stepped down over the handling of sex abuse cases but received fulsome praise from the pope, drawing criticism from campaigners who said it showed the Catholic Church cared more for its leaders than abuse victims. Cardinal Donald Wuerl, a loyal ally of Pope…
Ahead of Saturday’s confirmation vote, Brett Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez shredded U.S. Senators for turning a blind on a sexual assault.
By David Alexander and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two moderate Republicans who could be pivotal in determining whether the Senate confirms U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh criticized President Donald Trump on Wednesday for mocking a woman who has accused the judge of sexual assault. Senators Jeff Flake and Susan Collins were among the…
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.
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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?”
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.
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.
Avenatti, the lawyer for yet another woman who has accused Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, delivered the goods on Wednesday, including submitting her sworn statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee and demanding an FBI investigation.
By David DeKok NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) – Comedian Bill Cosby was declared a “sexually violent predator” under Pennsylvania law on Tuesday at the sentencing hearing for his sexual assault conviction. The designation came as Cosby, 81, awaited the possibility of a prison sentence for the drugging and sexual assault of his one-time friend Andrea Constand,…
“Another Yale Classmate Rebuts Kavanaugh: was he lying then, or last night on Fox? This classmate is now an award-winning history professor,” The New Yorker‘s Jane Mayer pointed out on Twitter Tuesday morning, after Brett Kavanaugh gave a softball interview to Fox News, during which they let him play the victim while he claimed he…
Bullish fighter Michael Avenatti, who takes on Trump and wins and wins and even if he loses an argument keeps winning the war, was just forced to make his account private on Twitter due to bots and Trump trolls he attributed to his representation of women regarding Kavanaugh. “I was just forced to make my…
By David DeKok NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) – The woman whose complaint led to Bill Cosby‘s conviction for sexual assault called for justice in brief testimony on the first day of the comedian’s two-day sentencing hearing on Monday, where prosecutors asked for a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Cosby was convicted in April…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday Democrats were “trying to destroy” Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh‘s personal and professional life with “unsubstantiated” sexual assault allegations. (Reporting by Richard Cowan; Writing by Eric Beech; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Women’s March protesters are holding a “Cancel Kavanaugh” rally for survivors of sexual assault in DC Monday, with walkouts nationwide to say, “We believe survivors.” We’re marching out of the Hart Senate Building and back to the Supreme Court for a rally to #BelieveWomen and #CancelKavanaugh. pic.twitter.com/trp0fghxgs — Women’s March (@womensmarch) September 24, 2018 Meanwhile…
Michael Avenatti is not playing. In an email Monday to Mr. Davis, Chief Counsel for Nominations for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Avenatti demanded a response to when members of the committee were aware of similar allegations and why they weren’t investigated.
In a vile answer on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) showed his real self by offering a defense of Kavanaugh that was both vile and an insult to victims of sexual assault.
A woman who has accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault has agreed to testify before a Senate panel, her lawyers said on Saturday.
By Doina Chiacu and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans threatened to go ahead with a Senate panel vote on President Donald Trump‘s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Monday unless a deal could be reached on Friday with the woman accusing him of sexual assault on how and when she will testify….
All ten Judiciary Committee Democrats tried to school Republican Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to “learn from past mistakes,” that is, to ease himself into the modern era where sexual assault is no longer something to be ignored.
In the 1980s, when “The Accused” Brett Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted Christine Blasey Ford, his mother was working in a state’s attorney’s office where the assault took place.
The accused, that is, Mr. Trump- a man credibly accused of sexual assault 19 times before he was elected president – returned to his true form Friday morning after getting his ego puffed up beyond capacity at his rally last night, and attacked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, because it’s not enough that his cult have threatened her life and forced her family out of her home.
A lawyer for the woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, of sexual assault told a Senate panel on Thursday she would not testify on Monday as Republicans want but would be willing to appear sometime next week if certain terms were met.
On Capitol Hill, protesters of Brett Kavanaugh are making their feelings known on Thursday and getting arrested for it
We believe Dr. Blasey Ford and are grateful that she came forward to tell her story. It demands a thorough and independent investigation before the Senate can reasonably vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to a lifetime seat on the nation’s highest court.
#KremlinAnnex protesters place a sign referring to Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of a 1982 sexual assault, and spell out the word “AMORAL” on the 66th consecutive day of their demonstration out#KremlinAnnex protesters place a sign referring to Christine Blasey Ford outside the White House in Washington
A Texas man at the center of a legal battle over his plan to make instructions available for 3-D printed plastic guns flew to Taiwan after learning police in Austin were investigating an accusation he had sex with an underage girl, police said on Wednesday.
Well, this is awkward for Republicans, who are barrelling ahead with their plan to confirm a possible rapist to the highest court in the land no matter what. MSNBC is reporting that a former schoolmate of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford recalls the alleged Kavanaugh assault being discussed at their school. She has no first hand…
Wondering why the President and Republicans keep referring to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as “the accuser” as if she has no name? Republicans have a history of painting women as “accuser” instead of “victim.” They’ve even tried to make this law. Republican state Rep Bobby Franklin of Georgia wrote a bill in 2011 to change…
A Texas man whose plan to sell blueprints for 3-D printed plastic guns spurred national controversy was charged on Wednesday with paying an underaged girl for sex at a hotel, according to court documents.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that only 31% of Americans are in favor of Kavanaugh’s appointment, with 36% being opposed, making him the among the lowest-supported nominees to be later confirmed.
The FBI says they never told Trump or anyone at the White House this. Bloomberg News reported that the FBI did not tell Trump or anyone at the White House that the bureau doesn’t want to be involved in an investigation of allegations against Kavanaugh.
In the face of the vicious death threats and fake news lies being spread about Dr. Christine Blasey after she came reluctantly forward with the allegation that Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had attempted to rape her years ago, Senator Chuck Schumer D-NY) backed her call for an FBI investigation prior to a hearing.
“Nothing of substance and nothing legitimate can happen by Monday,” Lisa Banks, an attorney for Ford, told CNN.
The woman accusing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault decades ago says she wants the FBI to probe the allegations before she testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee, CNN reported on Tuesday.
Mark Judge, a man identified as a witness to an alleged sexual assault by U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, said on Tuesday he does not want to speak publicly on the matter.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the FBI should not investigate a California professor’s allegations of sexual assault against Trump’s pick for U.S. Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, adding that he wants his nominee confirmed quickly.
Andy Wright, Senior Fellow and Founding Editor of Just Security, investigations lawyer and law professor, noted that the burden is on the nominee to demonstrate fitness for a lifetime appointment, contrary to a criminal prosecution burden upon the accuser.
“Of course there is never any excuse to rape someone. But it’s possible to have two seemingly contradictory thoughts to be both equally true. There’s never any excuse to rape, a crime that I think is almost akin to murder because the rapist kills a part of the human soul. And yet what women wear…
Senate Republicans struggled on Monday to salvage President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court even as the judge and the woman who accused him of a 1982 sexual assault offered to testify publicly and Trump called the nomination “on track.”
Trump, who has been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault by dozens of women is standing behind his potentially sexually assaulting Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.
Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court pick, and a woman accusing him of a 1982 sexual assault both offered on Monday to testify publicly before a Senate panel even as the embattled nominee issued a new denial of the allegation.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Monday called the sexual misconduct allegation brought by a woman against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh extremely credible and said the FBI should reopen its background investigation on the judge.
People tell me I can’t speak about this because I am biased. I disagree. I have mentioned this in passing before, but now I’m going to come out with the story of an ongoing sexual assault that happened to me at work, so that I can use it to explain things very slowly to Republican…
Sen Susan Collins (R-ME) called for Sen Franken’s (D-MN) resignation. Al Franken was accused of much less than Kavanaugh is. He was accused of trying to force a kiss.
Republican Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is on the Senate Judiciary Committee and he said Sunday evening that until he learns more about the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh, he is not comfortable voting yes.
Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania sexually abused thousands of children over a 70-year period and silenced victims through “the weaponization of faith” and a systematic cover-up campaign by their bishops, the state attorney general said on Tuesday.
Pope Francis on Saturday accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, one of the U.S. Catholic Church’s most prominent figures, who has been at the center of a widening sexual abuse scandal.