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Georgetown professor is suspended from Twitter for saying that white Republican senators 'deserve miserable deaths' and castration for backing Brett Kavanaugh A Georgetown University professor of political science had her Twitter account suspended on Tuesday after writing that white Republican senators who supported Brett Kavanagh's nomination for the US Supreme Court deserve to be castrated and put to death. Dr Carol Christine Fair, 50, an associate professor in the Security Studies Program within the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at the prestigious Washington DC school faced backlash after unleashing a scathing rant at the GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Twitter Saturday.
His accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, agreed to appear before the committee the same day to testify about the alleged assault, which she said took place during a high school party. A second person stepped forward to accuse Kavanaugh of an assault while in college.
Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill September 6, 2018 in Washington, D.C. As other previously "confidential" documents released this week added to " serious and concerning " evidence that Brett Kavanaugh previously committed perjury during earlier confirmation hearings in his career, new reporting out Friday provides details about the contents of a constituent letter Sen. Dianne Feinstein referred to the FBI about the controversial Supreme Court nominee.
Brett Kavanaugh, the federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump on Monday to the Supreme Court, has endorsed robust views of the powers of the president, consistently siding with arguments in favor of broad executive authority during his 12 years on the bench in Washington. He has called for restructuring the government's consumer watchdog agency so the president could remove the director, and has been a leading defender of the government's position when it comes to using military commissions to prosecute terrorism suspects.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's mother, wife and daughters, along with two former presidents and his Catholic faith, all have helped to form the man and judge he is today. Five things to know about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's mother, wife and daughters, along with two former presidents and his Catholic faith, all have helped to form the man and judge he is today.
Career and Technical Education is in the news. Years ago when I attended a National Urban League conference in Washington, D.C., a man in attendance gave me quite a bit of literature about CTE and how certain industries were looking for black students.
The Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. Democratic members of the House Oversight committee have filed suit over the Trump Administration's refusal to turn over information about the Trump family's lease of the Trump Hotel in Washington.
A onetime bank teller in Washington, D.C., stole tens of thousands of dollars from a homeless customer who earned money as a street vendor, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Phelon Davis, 29, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to a charge of interstate transportation of stolen property, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.
Two weeks into her new life as a full-time Washingtonian, Melania Trump is staying true to her reputation as more homebody than social butterfly. Her top priority has been settling in 11-year-old son Barron - the first boy in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. more than 50 years ago.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will host special post-show conversations with notable guest panelists during the run of John Strand's critically-acclaimed political drama The Originalist , based on the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The play, which stars four-time Helen Hayes Award winner and acclaimed D.C. actor Edward Gero as Justice Scalia and is under the direction of Artistic Director Molly Smith, runs July 7-30, 2017 in the Kreeger Theater.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks after signing the Antiquities Executive Order at the Department of the Interior in Washington, DC, U.S. April 26, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Even if President Donald Trump wins an appeal of a court ruling blocking his executive order on sanctuary cities, arguments made by the government in the case could permanently harm its efforts to cut off wide swaths of federal funding to targeted cities, some legal experts say.
The entrance to the Georgetown branch of the District of Columbia's Department of Motor Vehicles. The agency is ditching "District of Columbia" from driver's licenses after confusion that led to residents struggling to order beers and board planes.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks to participants of EMILY's List "Ready to Run" candidate training at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 22, 2017. The day after the Women's March brought half a million people to Washington, 500 women from across the country spent Sunday learning how to run for office.
In the street outside, a small demonstration by a scruffy band of communists demanded "actual revolution." Inside one of the country's most elegant clubs, in a formal drawing room, the mayor of the nation's capital asked for something less radical: voting rights and statehood for the District of Columbia.