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Throughout Thursday’s Senate hearing on Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual-misconduct allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee claimed that they had tried in vain to secure more information about other accusations made about the judge. “We were moving heaven and earth and even moving the schedule to get to the truth,” Senator Thom Tillis,…
Before delivering his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh assured us that only one other person had seen it. But it was as if it had been approved by President Trump himself. No, Kavanaugh didn’t go as far as Trump has by calling his female accusers “liars,” but…
A third woman came forward Wednesday to accuse Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, alleging that Kavanaugh was “present” during her gang rape in high school. In a sworn declaration delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Julie Swetnick alleged Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge as teenagers acted to “cause girls to become…
As Senate Republicans press for a swift vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats are investigating a new allegation of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh. The claim dates to the 1983-84 academic school year, when Kavanaugh was a freshman at Yale University. The offices of at least four Democratic…
A Maryland man shot two police officers on Wednesday when they barged into his home, believing it to be the residence of a drug dealer. The man was home with his daughter just before 10 p.m. when the police began trying to enter the apartment, Prince George’s County Police Chief Henry Stawinski said at a…
Itcan be easy to forget that sexual assault is a crime committed by a very small percentage of the male population. You might think otherwise, considering how many women have come forward in the last year with tales of abuse and the epidemic number of sexual assault victims in the U.S. — one person every 98 seconds. The truth,…
react-text: 97 At first, it seemed funny. /react-text react-text: 99 “Temper tantrum” was how I described his behavior to my friends. Michael* would raise his voice at me, then flounce out of the room in a huff. At first his outbursts seemed innocuous, if unprofessional: Can you /react-text react-text: 101 believe /react-text react-text: 102 he…
Illustration: Jim Cooke (GMG) I won’t ever forget the photo of the minutes-old murder a prisoner at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina sent me. It wasn’t a high-quality picture. But I could clearly see the blood, which covered the white clothes of a bearded inmate looking in the direction of the camera. I could…
Photo: Getty Prison conditions in the United States—where inmates routinely face sexual violence, torturous isolation, and warehousing that leaves them vulnerable to things like extreme heat—have galvanized prisoners into using whatever means at their disposal to prevent the state from gaining access to their labor. That is why prisoners across America are now on strike…
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected President Trump’s latest effort to stop a lawsuit that alleges Trump is violating the Constitution by continuing to do business with foreign governments. The ruling, from U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte in Greenbelt, Md., will allow the plaintiffs in the case — the attorneys general of Maryland and…