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For four years, Sen. Tammy Baldwin sat around doing nothing during her Senate term, and now in the last two years, she's trying to tell us what a great asset she is for the state of Wisconsin. An obstructionist is an asset? She voted against the tax cuts, which, as all can see, has been a blessing to our economy.
Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford just informed the Senate Judiciary Committee that they won't be turning over evidence concerning her allegations that Brett Kavanaugh tried to rape her in high school. They will, they say, give the FBI copies of her therapist's notes and recordings of her polygraph test.
Case in point: Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind. Donnelly is running in deep-red Indiana meaning that Donnelly needs to inspire the nascent liberal electorate while placating his opponent's conservative base.
Three victims of sexual abuse at the hands of priests speak about their experiences in a video released as part of a massive grand jury report released in Pennsylvania. Three victims of sexual abuse at the hands of priests speak about their experiences in a video released as part of a massive grand jury report released in Pennsylvania.
Last year, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said: "Our job at Facebook is to help people make the greatest positive impact while mitigating areas where technology and social media can contribute to divisiveness and isolation." As a Vietnamese musical artist who grew up in a totalitarian society, I can attest to the positive impact Facebook can make.
On Monday, the Supreme Court started a new term, with a docket packed with cases that could affect our personal lives, the environment and American democracy itself. But despite its predominant role, the court is the one branch of our federal government that does not allow itself to be video recorded.
The first Monday of every October features a majestic ritual in our nation's capital. Nine of the most powerful lawyers in America ascend the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court , led by the chief justice of the United States, where they hear the first oral arguments of the new term.
This week, an obscure body is meeting at a remote location to take a vote that could have a profound effect on how clean, safe and natural the Ohio River is in the future. Ohio has three representatives on that panel.
If the FBI finds nothing to support Christine Blasey Ford's testimony that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a high school party, will it be enough for Democrats to vote to confirm him? Republicans say the investigation is limited to her charge and that of a third accuser, Julie Swetnick, whose allegations, detailed in a sworn affidavit, claim she was the victim of gang rape. How many more will come forward? These are delay tactics to get through the November election.
Rather than investigate Christine Blasey Ford's 36-year-old sexual assault allegation against him confidentially during August, as would have been normal for such cases, they leaked her story to the press to damage the nominee. They timed their ambush for maximum political effect, when the scheduled hearings were over.
When she landed on Tuesday, she began an itinerary packed with visits to hospitals, clinics, schools, and shelters where she is set to focus on child well-being. Although unlikely to repair damage done during Trump's speech at the United Nations, where he pledged to reconsider U.S. foreign aid, the first lady's visit is a great opportunity to bolster good will.
Eight years after its informant uncovered criminal wrongdoing inside Russia's nuclear industry, the FBI has identified 37 pages of documents that might reveal what agents told the Obama administration, then-Secretary of State Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Ex-Trump aide: If FBI can investigate Clinton emails in days, it can investigate Kavanaugh in a week Comey defends FBI's ability to investigate Kavanaugh Hirono: Democrats did not expect limited Kavanaugh investigation MORE Their excuses for the veil of nondisclosure range from protecting national security and law enforcement techniques to guarding the privacy of individual Americans and the ability of agencies to communicate with each other.
As the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Senate floor, it seems that Democrats and left-wing pundits may very well get what they've been asking for: an investigation by the FBI into the accusations of sexual assault against the nominee. But recent history casts doubt on whether a finding in Kavanaugh's favor would make a difference in the minds of Democrats who decided - long before there was any mention of the allegation - that Kavanaugh was unfit to serve on the Supreme Court.
The battle over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court is no longer only about Kavanaugh's fitness to hold a lifetime appointment to the highest court. Credit to Arizona Republican Jeff Flake, who at the Senate Judicial Committee hearing Friday morning agreed that an investigation is warranted into the allegations.
Perhaps it would have been better for Texas Democrats like Beto O'Rourke and Lupe Valdez not to debate their Republican opponents in a state dominated by such a conservative electorate. Then again, some other political storm, like the fight in Washington over Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, would have caused Republicans to make their way home instead of fancying a crossover vote for O'Rourke or another new-breed Democrat.
Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen has caused the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today: 5 million children starving, school buses and hospitals being bombed, the worst cholera outbreak in history and 130 children dying every day. Our country has provided military support for Saudi Arabia in that war without any authorization from Congress since 2015.
The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh have achieved an exalted status in the American cultural consciousness shared by few other events. When traders reportedly fell silent and followed the Senate Judiciary Committee proceedings on television rather than do business on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and when passengers watching seat-back sets on airplanes spontaneously broke into tears, there is no question that Americans knew they were witnessing a seminal "Where were you?" moment in their nation's history.