Plenty of people love former Vice President Joe Biden for his folksy speaking style, and tendency to go off-script at key moments, But after his interview with NBC News on Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, perhaps Joe should sit back and shut up for a…

It’s probably a bad sign when an insane conspiracy theory makes the leap from rambling Twitter thread to the president’s favorite TV show in less than 24 hours. And yet that’s exactly what happened on Friday morning, when a conservative activist’s tinfoil hat speculation about the sexual assault allegations against…

Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have thrown Kavanaugh’s confirmation process into chaos.

After allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh attempted to rape Christine Blasey Ford at a party they attended when they were both in high school, a few specific quotes from the judge’s past have taken on new significance. One of those statements was made in 2015, when Kavanaugh gave a speech at the…

The Senate Judiciary Committee is slated to hold a hearing Monday on the allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford when they were at a party in high school, but faced with the prospect of an overwhelmingly male committee questioning Kavanaugh’s accuser, Republicans…

Another wrench was thrown into Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination plans this evening when the woman who has accused him of sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford, said through her lawyers that she wants the FBI to investigate her claims against Kavanaugh before she testifies in front of Congress.

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.

The author of a previously confidential letter to Democrats accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in high school has come forward to publicly detail the allegations.

A worker at the nonprofit organization Southwest Key was arrested on Wednesday on charges of molesting a 14-year-old girl. The organization runs shelters for children of immigrants who were separated from their families at the border, though it’s not clear if the girl in question was one of these children.

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.

After a horrifying incident last year in which a young woman was reportedly raped while in custody by two on duty NYPD officers, legislation has been introduced to close the loophole that allowed the officers to claim the acts were consensual.

Today, Trump judicial nominee Ryan Bounds was withdrawn by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after Sen. Tim Scott, the only black Republican senator, indicated he wouldn’t vote for the judge’s appointment because of writings discovered from Bounds’ college years.

President Donald Trump has waded into the ongoing scandal involving Rep. Jim Jordan, a founding member of the Freedom Caucus and one of Trump’s biggest fans and defenders in Congress, and his alleged enablement of sexual abuse at the hands of a former team doctor for the Ohio State wrestling team while Jordan was a…

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.

17-year-old Lulabel Seitz got her mic cut for criticizing her high school during commencement. She had intended to speak about issues ranging from striking teachers to—most painfully—her own alleged sexual assault by a fellow student. After being denied the chance to address her classmates, she posted the whole speech…

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.

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.

Republican Eric Greitens resigned as Missouri’s governor on Tuesday, bringing to an end a months-long scandal involving his alleged sexual abuse and blackmail of a woman with whom he’d been having an affair.

In December, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand took what was perhaps the boldest move in the generally cautious politician’s decade-long career: She published a Facebook post calling for Al Franken, who had been accused of groping and forcibly kissing multiple women, to step down. Within hours, dozens of senators…

Roy Moore—accused pedophile and sexual predator, disgraced former Alabama Supreme Court justice, and reactionary, homophobic, gun-toting lunatic—is back!