This election is taking on many of the aspects of a three-ring circus. Not only are wild and unexpected things happening, but if you focus too much on what is going on in any one ring, you miss what is going on in another. For the first time, the Supreme […] Read more »
Anita Hill’s Charges Against Clarence Thomas
In October 1991, the U.S. Senate was preparing to vote on the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation of conservative judge Clarence Thomas when news reports of lawyer Anita Hill’s sexual harassment allegations against Thomas broke. … Because of Hill’s claims, the Senate Judiciary Committee delayed the confirmation vote and questioned Hill, […] Read more »
Poll: Brett Kavanaugh faces unprecedented opposition to Supreme Court confirmation
More Americans oppose than support the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a new USA TODAY/Ipsos Public Affairs Poll finds, an unprecedented level of disapproval for a nominee to the nation’s high court. CONT. Susan Page, USA Today Read more »
Opposition to Kavanaugh’s confirmation grows
More American voters now oppose Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination than support it after he was accused of committing sexual assault while he was in high school, with opposition increasing 9 points since last month, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. CONT. Mark Murray, NBC News Read more »
Brett Kavanaugh Could Make the Midterms a Landmark Election for Women
Anita Hill’s testimony in Congress triggered the first “Year of the Woman” in 1992, after she accused the Republican Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her. … Long before the clinical-psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford publicly accused Kavanaugh of a high-school assault, a backlash against Donald Trump had […] Read more »
For Red-State Democrats, Accusation Against Kavanaugh Scrambles Midterm Calculus
The sexual assault accusation against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh hasn’t just upended what was expected to be his relatively easy Senate confirmation to the Supreme Court. The allegation has also scrambled the political calculations for 10 Democratic senators running for re-election in states won by President Trump, particularly three moderate […] Read more »