Sen. Lindsay Graham dismissed the accusation of Julie Swetnick against Brett Kavanaugh even as fellow victim Christine Blasey Ford kept the nation rapt with her story of being assualted. Graham dismissed Swetnick as “some woman” during a brief interview in a hallway. “I don’t believe it,” Graham told reporters during a break in Blasey Ford’s…
There might soon be a building named after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams announced Thursday that he is lobbying to rename the Brooklyn Municipal Building after Ginsburg, in honor of her 25th anniversary serving on the Supreme Court, Gothamist reported. On the online petition, which will be sent to New York…
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) used his time during the Senate Judiciary Committee questioning of Christine Blasey Ford to harshly criticize the lack of an FBI investigation of her sexual assault claims against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. “It’s up to the President of the United States, and his failure to ask for an FBI investigation,…
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is likely to spend $100 million on the midterm House of Representatives races, Fortune reported. Bloomberg, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, has already met the $80 million he promised to spend to ensure the Democrats get control of the House. Half of the money will go to women candidates,…
As Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to share her allegation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, she will be accompanied by her lawyer Debra Katz, a civil rights attorney who has emerged as a prominent women’s advocate in the #MeToo era. Ford’s is just one of…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein chided her colleague Sen. Chuck Grassley for mishandling the sexual misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh as the explosive hearing kicked off. The Jewish senator swatted away Grassley when he interrupted her opening statement, then went on to welcome Christine Blasey Ford — and reminded the nation of how the GOP had sought…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected an invitation to participate in a United Nations conference on Anti-Semitism. The conference was held on Wednesday at the United Nations headquarters in New York under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, on the sidelines of the U.N. General…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A group that once was the umbrella for Jewish Democrats says it was brought down by a libel lawsuit filed against it by Sheldon Adelson and is countersuing now that Adelson has lost. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in a federal court in New York by the National Jewish Democratic Council and its…
Julie Swetnick said in her first interview that she doesn’t think Brett Kavanaugh should be on the Supreme Court. The third woman to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct told MSNBC that the charges against the judge should be investigated before he is given a lifetime seat on the high court. “From what I experienced…
President Trump offered bizarre mixed signals about his vision for Mideast peace Wednesday, telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s he wants a two-state solution — but insisting hours later he is fine with a one-state solution. “If the Israelis and the Palestinians want one state, that’s OK with me. If they want two states,…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg voiced support for the #MeToo movement on Wednesday in a striking statement on the eve of a high-stakes U.S. Senate hearing into allegations of sexual misconduct by President Donald Trump’s nominee to the court, Brett Kavanaugh. During a question-and-answer period after an address to first-year law students at Georgetown…
