A South Carolina congressman made light of the sexual assault accusation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh with a joke about Ruth Bader Ginsburg being groped, The Post and Courier reported Thursday. As he opened his election debate at the Kiwanis Club of Rock Hill, Republican Rep. Ralph Norman quipped that he almost had to…
A former Yale Law School student said that a few years ago she was warned by a professor during her clerkship interview process that Judge Brett Kavanaugh liked his female clerks to have a “certain look,” HuffPost reported. The outlet reported that Jed Rubenfeld and his wife, Amy Chua — author of the 2011 book…
In his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Brett Kavanaugh spent a considerable amount of time noting the women in his life: his mother, Mary Kavanaugh, who served as a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge; his wife, Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, a former White House aid; Justice Elena Kagan, who hired him at Harvard Law…
Rabbi Barat Ellman was wearing her kippah and tallit when she stood up in the middle of a packed room during Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination hearing Wednesday morning and shouted, “It’s a shonda!” Guards immediately grabbed the 59-year-old Brooklyn teacher and activist and forcibly removed her from the Senate hearing. Ellman was one…
Was it, or was it not a white power sign? Prominent anti-Trump Twitter figure Dr. Eugene Gu pointed out Tuesday the strange position in which Supreme Court hopeful Brett Kavanaugh’s former clerk rested her hand during the confirmation hearing. He claimed that longtime Republican legal operative Zina Bash was flashing a “white power sign.” Kavanaugh’s…
Updated Sept. 7, 11 a.m. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday that Roe v. Wade is “important precedent” that as been “reaffirmed many times.” The Trump nominee, who would give conservatives a clear 5-4 majority on the country’s highest court, made the remarks while being questioned by Democratic California…
When the father of a student killed in the mass shooting at her high school in Parkland, Florida, earlier this year approached Brett Kavanaugh at the Supreme Court hopeful’s confirmation hearing, Kavanaugh simply walked away. In a tweet, Fred Guttenberg suggested he attended the hearing to observe discussions about the Second Amendment and gun control,…
Brett Kavanaugh expects to be peppered with tough questions by senators during his four-day Supreme Court confirmation hearing this week. But he most likely won’t reveal his personal opinions on key issues, thanks to something called the Ginsburg Standard. Named after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the rule dates back to her 1993 confirmation hearing, according…
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