With Sens. Collins and Manchin saying they'll vote "yes," the Senate is expected to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court today. Kavanaugh...will be the first justice nominated by someone who lost the popular vote to earn his seat on the bench with support from senators
The Senate, still “plowing ahead,” is scheduled to hold a procedural vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh today. Among those who oppose Kavanaugh, you can count retired Justice John Paul Stevens, same for a trio of Kavanaugh’s drinking buddies at Yale. Supporters of Kavanaugh include pretty much the entire Republican
With the FBI report on Kavanaugh in senators' hands, Grassley says there's "no hint of misconduct"; Schumer disagrees. Ongoing updates here. The investigation's credibility is in question, mainly due to its extremely limited scope and timeline—and because the FBI ignored testimonies from
With three days left in the FBI investigation into allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford say she still hasn't been contacted. A deep investigation into Trump’s fortune finds plenty of dubious tax schemes and "outright fraud." And now the New York Dept.
Texts between Kavanaugh and former classmates in the days before Deborah Ramirez's allegations went public in the New Yorker suggest he was lying when he testified the first he'd heard of her accusations was when the article was published. Here's the full list of
Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation gets delayed by a week so the FBI can investigate sexual assault allegations. Meaning Trump has to eat his words. Among the voices that pressed pause on Kavanaugh was his alma mater, Yale Law School. A striking chart shows every time Ford and Kavanaugh dodged
The Senate Judiciary Committee votes at 1:30 pm. ET on Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination. If it passes, a full Senate vote could happen early next week. "Look at me and tell me that it doesn't matter." Sexual assault survivors this morning confronted Sen.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Ford testify today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Multiple news outlets are streaming it live online. The split between views of Democrats and Republicans on Kavanaugh’s nomination is even wider than the gulf on Trump’s border wall. Today, he needs to
Republican senators have chosen Rachel Mitchell, chief of the special victims division of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, to question Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh in tomorrow's Senate hearing. "The move allows the 11 Republicans on the committee—all white men—to avoid the
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his wife go on television to protest his innocence, using a peculiar virginity defense. One alarming aspect of Kavanaugh’s appearance was how much it diverged “in tone and substance” from a letter he sent the same day to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Is
