MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday actually asked a sitting U.S. senator whether any FBI probe into allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh should include questions over whether the Supreme Court nominee was “rude or showed belligerence to senators.”
Here's Mitchell's entire, honest-to-God question:
“We were just talking to Frank Figlese, a former FBI officer, top ranking…
Harvard Law School has canceled Brett Kavanaugh’s class on Supreme Court history, which he was scheduled to return to teaching in January.
According to the Boston Globe, the school made their decision to cancel the class, titled “The Supreme Court Since 2005,” after “pressure from students and alumni” forced Kavanaugh to withdraw from teaching the course, which he’d taught since 2008.
“Today,…
Hey, ya’ll remember like five minutes ago when liberals were busy mocking Mike Pence for saying he won’t have dinner alone with women who aren’t his wife? My, how that goalpost has moved.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is blasting Democrats for their handling of the entire Kavanaugh-Ford sexual assault debacle, saying he's called for a "wholesale, full scale investigation" into how, exactly, Dr. Christine Ford's anonymous letter accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct ended up getting leaked from Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office.
"You're trying to portray him as a stumbling, bumbling…
In other news, California Gov. Jerry Brown finally did something right in between waging wars against straws and water, this week vetoing a bill that would have made the Golden State the first in the country to offer abortion-inducing drugs at college campus clinics.
And no, we’re not talking about Plan B or other drugs that simply prevent implantation. We’re talking about actual, first-term…
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy admitted Friday that while he still thinks the FBI should investigate Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh over accusations that he sexually abused women in high school, an FBI investigation – no matter the outcome – won’t actually change his mind about voting "no."
“Yes, of course there should be an FBI investigation,” Murphy tweeted Friday. “But whatever they find…
In a blink-and-you-miss-it moment just before the Thursday hearing in which Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her at a house party in 1982, Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was caught on camera slipping a mysterious white envelope to Ford’s attorney, Michael Bromwich.
Bromwich, an Arizona lawyer who reportedly resigned from his law…
While Republican senators were questioning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and rebuking their Democratic colleagues for how they’ve handled his utterly botched confirmation process, someone in the House of Representatives was updating the GOP lawmakers’ Wikipedia pages to include the senators’ personal phone numbers and home addresses.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, who delivered a powerful…
After delivering one of the strongest and most impassioned rebukes we've seen in the Senate in…well, far too long, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham doubled down with a scathing response to the screaming hoard of protesters who accosted him walking down a hallway in Congress late Thursday night.
Talking to reporters, Graham ignored the mob losing their collective mind behind him, telling the…
Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake released a statement early Friday saying he intends to vote “yes” to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.
Here’s Flake’s full statement:
Flake, along with fellow Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), was one of several senators seen as largely being on the fence on Kavanaugh’s confirmation after the…
