Last week, Sheena Between Lodges, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, was brutally beaten into a coma.

As someone who writes for a living, please believe me when I say that there are no words to accurately describe the subterranean depths of stupidity plumbed by conservative conspiracy crackpot Jack Burkman and mulch-brained “wunderkind” Jacob Wohl during their circus of a press conference on Thursday afternoon, where…

Republican Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has requested that Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Chris Wray open an investigation into attorney Michael Avenatti and his client Julie Swetnick, alleging the pair may have made “materially false statements” to Congress as part of the confirmation…

North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s tough re-election campaign just got a little tougher: several women featured in a recent campaign ad against Republican challenger Kevin Cramer revealed their names had been used without permission.

Not content to simply kick back and revel in the glory of having helped put a credibly accused sexual predator on the Supreme Court, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton has decided to go full Pepe Silvia and concoct a nebulous conspiracy theory around the allegations that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted…

It’s hard to imagine any elected official who deserves less sympathy for their role in helping to place a credibly accused sexual predator on the Supreme Court than Mitch McConnell.

Speaking with reporters on the White House lawn on Monday, President Donald Trump addressed the continuing fallout from Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation fight, painting the multiple credible allegations of sexual assault leveled against Kavanaugh as nothing more than a plot by Democrats to derail…

Two weeks after testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a house party in the early 1980s, a lawyer for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford says she’s still unable to return to her California home because of the sheer volume of death threats she’s received…

Sen. Susan Collins, who voted Saturday to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, is performing some extensive mental gymnastics to justify that decision. In the best case, her arguments are extraordinarily weak. In the worst, the entire thing is a charade.

In a 50-48 vote mostly along party lines on Saturday, the U.S. Senate confirmed accused sexual predator and right-wing operative Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in a lifetime appointment.

One by one, police officers led dozens of protesters down the east steps of the Capitol, where hundreds had gathered to express outrage over the pending Senate vote that is expected to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

President Trump dove headfirst into grotesque conspiracy-mongering on Friday morning about the activists fighting Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, with a tweet that managed to cram so much crazy into such little space it would be a serious accomplishment if it weren’t so awful.

As Senate Republicans all but proclaimed that Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed to the Supreme Court, a huge group of activists spent Thursday afternoon swarming the Senate in a show of force to demonstrate that the fight over Kavanaugh is not over yet.

You might think Senate Republicans would be in a celebratory mood today, given that the FBI’s investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh reportedly let him off the hook. (Never mind the extremely questionable nature of the probe itself.)

Following a defanged FBI report on allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted multiple women, Kavanaugh’s confirmation seems increasingly like a sure thing. But even on the cusp of victory, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s psychotic—if politically expedient—meltdown is continuing…

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…

Now that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s unhinged, beer-loving testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee has officially entered the national zeitgeist as A Thing, we’ve started to learn a little more about what went on just before Kavanaugh’s weepy, screamy, appearance.

Sen. Lindsey Graham might be Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s most psychotic cheerleader these days, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did his best on Wednesday to make sure the world knows that he, too, is a craven opportunist.

After last night’s horrific spectacle of President Trump mocking Dr. Christine Blasey Ford to a crowd of hooting, chortling morons in Mississippi—which his White House defended this morning as “fair game”—there’s a new addition to my teetering stack of Reasons to Lose Hope: this Politico report on how Republicans are…

Throughout Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s turbulent confirmation process, which has been marred by multiple allegations of sexual assault, the Trump Administration’s nominee for the Supreme Court has been able to count on one group for support: Very Serious White Lawyer Guys.