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The speech at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law was supposed to analyze whether judges should behave like umpires in a baseball game, analyzing words from Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. But Judge Brett Kavanaugh decided to share his personal connections with the District of Columbia-based university. A graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Maryland, he said three of his classmates and close friends graduated from the law school.
Virginia House Republicans have filed their own redistricting proposal they say will fix what a court found were unconstitutionally gerrymandered districts. GOP Del.
John D. Celestine, left, is expected to head to trial Oct. 15, 2018, in the slaying of 12-year-old Talaija Dorsey, right. She disappeared July 1, 2014, and was later killed.
President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans on Wednesday took a hard line: full-speed ahead on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination for the Supreme Court despite an allegation of sexual assault decades ago.
If this is what the left pulls against a sweet nerd like Brett Kavanaugh, I can't wait for the hearings to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg! Observers of the passing scene were not surprised that the same lunatics screaming that Kavanaugh is going to impose "The Handmaid's Tale" on America also announced that he had committed attempted rape and murder in high school. His accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, remembered this in a therapy session 30-plus years after the alleged incident-coincidentally, at the exact moment Kavanaugh was all over the news as Mitt Romney's likely Supreme Court nominee.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday stepped up his defense of his U.S. Supreme Court pick, saying it is hard to imagine Brett Kavanaugh committed a sexual assault and that it would be unfortunate if the nominee's accuser does not testify before the Senate. Trump made his remarks a day after lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford, a university professor in California, said she would testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee only if the FBI first investigates her allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982 when both were high school students in Maryland.
Last week, democratic Senator Cory Booker released an email from Brett Kavanaugh, wherein he discusses racial profiling. Booker admitted that he didn't have permission to release it, and that by doing so, he risked expulsion from the Senate, but he didn't care because the American people needed to know the truth about Kavanaugh.
Former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS) says she did not regret confirming Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991, but when the case involving Anita Hill's allegation of sexual harassment was reopened, she believed Thomas behaved poorly.
President Donald Trump nominates Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in the East Room of the White House in July. President Donald Trump appeared to signal he might reconsider Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination if his accuser is believable in potential testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Sen. Claire McCaskill had said she found the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were disturbing but would "set them aside" when deciding her vote. Claire McCaskill says she's voting 'no' on Brett Kavanaugh Sen. Claire McCaskill had said she found the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were disturbing but would "set them aside" when deciding her vote.
If you have been following the serious destruction brought about by Hurricane Florence in North Carolina and the political turmoil caused by the allegations of teenage sexual misconduct made by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, along with his firm and unbending denials, you might have missed a profound event in a federal courtroom in the nation's capital late last week. The Florence damage may take years to repair, and the Kavanaugh nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, which once seemed assured, at this writing is in a sort of limbo, pending an Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas-like confrontation before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week.
Some "dark money" political campaign operatives will no longer be able to cloak big financial contributors' identities after the Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed a lower court ruling to take effect. Though the legal battle is not yet over, at least for now the move means nonprofit groups who weigh in on political matters by spending more than $250 must follow disclosure rules, reporting the identities of anyone who gave at least $200 in a year.
Judge Robert Bork used to tell a prescient and darkly humorous story about watching Clarence Thomas' Senate confirmation hearings - etched in pre-hashtag history as the "Thomas-Hill hearings," in homage to Anita Hill's role as the Left's heroic accuser. As he viewed Thomas' "high-tech lynching" in horror, Bork recalled, a friend of his, the iconic Irving Kristol, approached and asked him what was happening.
President Trump said Tuesday that Democrats were intentionally playing politics with his Supreme Court nomination in waiting until the 11th hour to spring attempted sexual assault allegations on him. "They knew what they were doing," Mr. Trump said, casting Democrats' strategy as part of the long-standing liberal goal of resisting the president's agenda at every turn.
Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh told his listeners that Americans who are confused by the circus-like atmosphere surrounding Judge Brett Kavanaugh 's road to the U.S. Supreme Court fail to comprehend the Democrats' modus operandi: "They need to destroy anybody credible who opposes them." Accusations by Christine Blasey Ford that President Trump 's pick for the high court tried to rape her in his teens has thrown a wrench into the voting plans of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, but Mr. Limbaugh said Monday it all was rather predictable.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he feels "terribly" for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee who could face off in a high-stakes hearing next week with a woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers. "I feel so badly that he's going through this," Trump said during a news conference at the White House.
University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Oct. 11, 1991. When I first called Anita Hill in 1991 to ask her, out of the blue, if she had been sexually harassed by then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, she was very reluctant to give me any details.
The Senate cannot move forward with this lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land without considering the results of a fair, non-partisan, and complete process. Over the weekend, details of serious charges of sexual assault alleged to have been committed by Judge Brett Kavanaugh became public, as did the name of the woman raising these allegations.
Nearly a year old and still making headlines almost daily, the #MeToo movement faces a dramatic test of its impact and staying power in the sexual assault allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
'Polar opposite of the Brett I know': Two of Brett Kavanaugh's previous girlfriends speak out to defend the judge following sexual harassment accusations Christine Blasey Ford has accused Kavanaugh of attacking and attempting to rape her at a party when she was 15 and he was 17 Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's former girlfriends are speaking out to clear his name following accusations of sexual harassment from his teenage days.