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Former President Jimmy Carter: Brett Kavanaugh Is Unfit to Serve on the Supreme Court
Former President Jimmy Carter saw what the rest of us saw during newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing: a spiteful, miserable, hostile man-child fuming like a baby. During a talk with students at Emory University in Atlanta on Wednesday, Carter said Kavanaugh was “unfit” to serve on the nation’s highest court and that…
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Brett Kavanaugh Is a Dick and the Look He Gave Fred Guttenberg Proves It
On Tuesday, at the end of the first day of the Senate confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh’s possible appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, a man came over to him with his hand outstretched attempting to shake the nominee’s hand. Kavanaugh looked at the man and then turned and walked away. The man was Fred…
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All the Weird Shit Going On at Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing
Admittedly, I watch congressional hearings even when I’m not covering them. I also watch Supreme Court confirmation hearings, but not because I believe anything will change because of them. It’s like watching professional wrestling: We all know the fights are scripted, but it doesn’t stop us from cheering for a winner. Neil Gorsuch’s Senate confirmation…
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Evil Voltron Is Almost Complete as Senate Panel Confirms Jeff Sessions
The movement to form evil Voltron is almost complete as Sen. Jeff Sessions’ (R -Ala.) nomination to become U.S. attorney general was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee along party lines, 11-9. According to NBC News, the panel put up a good fight, but in the end evil prevailed, as it tends to do with…
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Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Education Pick, Shouldn’t Be Anywhere Near Our Children
Betsy DeVos is a longtime billionaire philanthropist, a champion of allowing religion in schools and a charter school board member who was picked by President-elect Donald Trump as his nominee for secretary of education. She has never worked in a school or been in the field of education before, and while she has considerable money…
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Read the Scathing 1986 Letter Coretta Scott King Wrote Opposing Sessions’ Federal Nomination
Updated Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, 1:02 a.m. EST: Elizabeth Warren attempted to read Coretta Scott King’s letter about Jeff Sessions on the Senate floor; but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) silenced her. Earlier: Coretta Scott King’s scathing letter in which she urged Congress to block the 1986 nomination of Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship…