Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono from Hawaii spoke for all of us in a recent interview with ABC News. She succinctly and accurately described her Republican colleagues’ claims they are taking Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh seriously as “bullshit.”
In May, the Senate passed legislation that would bring much-needed reform to the way sexual harassment cases against lawmakers are handled on Capitol Hill, which is currently awaiting a vote from the House of Representatives. There’s just one problem—the House passed its own version of sexual harassment reform in…
On Tuesday, Terry Crews testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, retelling the story of his 2017 sexual assault, and offering some thoughts on how toxic masculinity plays a role in discrediting sexual assault survivors who come forward.
After months of stalling, on Thursday the Senate passed an anti-sexual harassment bill aiming to reform how Congress deals with sexual harassment within its ranks. While this could have been a celebratory moment, Senate’s bill is too little, too late, a watered-down version of a more robust bill the House unanimously…
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is fed the fuck up. She took to Twitter on Thursday to blast her colleagues for their inaction on a bill that would reform the way sexual harassment is handled on Capitol Hill. The Senate is dragging its feet, but the notoriously chaotic (and full of more bad people, by volume) House of…
It should be pretty easy to declare that the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the CIA after 9/11 were morally wrong, but CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel repeatedly declined, during her confirmation hearings, to do so. Oops, that was bad, and now, a week later, she has modified her stance.
Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, America’s gentlest nincompoop, is once again teasing a run for office. In response, I am once again drenched with the rapturous sweat of anticipation. Months upon months of Lincoln Chafee? A possible primary debate? More confusing interviews with Russia Today?
Senator Tammy Duckworth made history on Thursday, bringing her newborn daughter Maile onto the Senate floor to cast a vote.
The Senate is expected to change its rules to allow Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) to bring her newborn onto the chamber floor, Politico reports.
A bill to support victims of sexual harassment and hold harassers accountable is dying on Capitol Hill, and women senators, all 22 of them, are calling out their colleagues.
The Senate passed the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) on Wednesday, which would allow websites, social media apps, and any other online platform to be held criminally liable for facilitating sex trafficking. If signed into law, it would make it easier for law enforcement to go after sites like…
After months of dull speculation, former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has announced he will be running as a Republican candidate in Utah’s 2018 Senate election. His announcement was accompanied by a stirring video that makes a valiant effort to suck up to the state of…
Trump, who previously bragged about his “great love” for Dreamers and claimed he would “sign any deal” on immigration made in Congress, appears now to be actively uninterested in achieving one. The very real potential for the forced deportation of over a million young people who were promised safety by the previous…
I’m still thinking about Louise Linton’s bird feeder.
Tammy Duckworth, a Democratic Senator from Illinois, is expecting her second child in April—a first for the long history of the institution, which has often been populated by men who might genuinely think that babies arrive in a flurry of scrounged-up towels and boiled water.
Outgoing Republican Senator Jeff Flake gave another speech on the Senate floor today denouncing his party’s president, elaborating on the same “daily sundering of our country” he mentioned last time. A day after a similar op-ed by his colleague John McCain ran in the Washington Post, Flake defended the free press…
Three days from the one-year anniversary on which Barack Obama made the surprise decision to commute her 35-year prison sentence, Chelsea Manning has confirmed that she is running for senator. She will be running as a Democrat in Maryland against 74-year-old career politician Ben Cardin.
I’m sure this has been said before in this space, but I sincerely wish the President and his tiny sausage fingers did not have access to Twitter.
According to a new report by LGBT legal advocacy group Lambda Legal, nearly one-third of Donald Trump’s judicial nominees are overtly hostile towards LGBT rights, and if confirmed, could curb workplace protections, healthcare access, equal protections in public spaces, voting rights, and several other protections for…
Trump judicial nominee Matthew Spencer Petersen, an FEC commissioner who apparently lacks any of the relevant experience required to be a federal judge, will no longer seek the position.
