If there’s one voice that definitely needed to be heard in the middle of the fight over whether or not to believe the multiple women who have accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, it’s that of Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse, a 46-year-old man who spent his Wednesday evening paying very…
Just minutes after announcing he would vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake was confronted by a series of women who angrily shared their stories of sexual assault while he simply nodded awkwardly in the corner of a Capitol Hill elevator.
Top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway dismissed the growing number of women who have accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault on Monday, telling CBS This Morning they seemed like a fabricated narrative by Democrats, rather than credible allegations of wrongdoing.
Update, 7:00 pm: According to the New York Times, Kavanaugh and Ford’s hearing is scheduled for next Monday. This will delay Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote, which was scheduled for this Thursday.
Over the weekend, Christine Blasey Ford went on the record to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempting to sexually assault her when they were in high school. Since then, Kavanaugh’s relationship with Mark Judge, the high school friend of Kavanaugh’s who Ford alleges was in the room during the…
Everyone on Earth is now aware that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of attempted rape. The whirlwind controversy began last week, when it was reported that Diane Feinstein had a mysterious letter pertaining to Kavanaugh’s confirmation that she’d passed on to authorities. We now know that the…
Andrew Cuomo loves big donations from rich guys. His campaign has touted the number of small donors he had, even though most of his money still comes from big donations and a suspiciously large number of $1 donations from someone who shares an address with a Cuomo campaign aide. But investigative journalist David…
Keith Ellison won his primary election for Minnesota attorney general last week, despite the allegations leveled at him by ex-girlfriend Karen Monahan of physical and emotional abuse. Monahan’s son initially accused Ellison of abusing his mother on Facebook, saying he saw a video on his mother’s computer of Ellison…
Representative Keith Ellison’s former girlfriend Karen Monahan will not release the video she says shows Ellison physically abusing her, says a report from MPR News. Monahan’s son posted the accusations against Ellison online last weekend. Monahan later gave a lengthy statement addressing the details of the alleged…
Update, Monday, 12:11 am: Karen Monahan, Keith Ellison’s accuser, released a lengthy statement in which she discusses her relationship with Ellison. In it, she repeats her claims of physical abuse listed by her son, and provides more details about the manipulation she says she faced at Ellison’s hands. She also…
Last year, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was one of the few powerful Democrats to say that Senator Al Franken should resign amid allegations that he groped eight women. A report from HuffPost details the backlash that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is now facing after her decision to speak out.
After the latest Ronan Farrow investigation for The New Yorker outed CBS CEO Les Moonves as an alleged sexual abuser, the company has decided to not punish Moonves immediately, according to the New York Times.
The Washington Post reported on Monday afternoon that Corey Coleman, the former personnel chief of the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) who resigned last month, is under investigation for allegedly allowing a culture of widespread sexual harassment to flourish at the agency.
Former Ohio State wrestlers are accusing Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, a right-wing former leader of the Freedom Caucus who was rumored to be considering a run for House Republican leader when Paul Ryan retires from Congress, reportedly ignored sexual abuse by the team doctor when he was a coach. And Jordan is denying it.
When Bill Clinton reflexively pointed out to the Today Show that he left the White House $16 million in debt, implying that he suffered appropriately for his treatment of Monica Lewinsky, he was criticized by progressives as profoundly Not Getting It. But 20 years after the end of Clinton’s presidency—amid a wave of…
If you were to hastily design an algorithm to mimic what a politically powerful 71-year-old man credibly accused of serial sexual assault might have to say about rape culture and the resignation of former Senator Al Franken, it would probably sound a lot like what Bill Clinton has come up with lately.
On Friday, Esquire editor-in-chief Jay Fielden announced that he is hiring Ryan Lizza as the magazine’s chief political correspondent “at a time when Washington is the main event.” Curiously, at a time when the #MeToo era has also become a main event, Fielden failed to mention the fact that Lizza was available for…
In the middle of the night on November 11, 2011, Jenn Shapland, a 24-year-old graduate student in the English department at the University of Texas at Austin, received an email from her professor.
Aaron Persky, known piece of shit, entered the halls of history on Tuesday as the first judge to be recalled from his position in California since 1932.
