FBI Director Confirms That White House Limited Scope of Kavanaugh Investigation
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Wednesday.Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed Wednesday that the White House limited the scope of the FBI’s investigation into alleged sexual assault by now-Supreme Court…
Chuck Grassley’s Bullshit Is Still Thick on the Ground
Tom Williams/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ha ha ha ha ha: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said Tuesday that he would not allow a Supreme Court vacancy to be filled in 2020, a position that puts him at odds with the Senate’s top Republican…
Trump’s USA Today Op-Ed Contains a Brazen Lie
Paul Hennessy/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. USA Today published a remarkably dishonest op-ed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday, wherein the president (or, more likely, his ghost writer) completely misrepresents his own record on health care policy while lobbing outlandish attacks on Democratic policy positions. “As a candidate, I…
Joe Strummer’s Legacy Lives On in This Commemorative Album
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Joe StrummerJoe Strummer 001Ignition Joe Strummer will always be known first as the fire-breathing frontman of the British punk quartet The Clash, but he also led a richly productive creative life apart from that great band. Collecting nearly three dozen tracks from before and mostly…
After Kavanaugh, Women Prefer Democrats by 30 Points
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday I wrote about a Washington Post poll of battleground districts which found that women favored Democratic candidates by 14 points. This was notable but not a world record or anything. However, most of the WaPo polling was done pre-Kavanaugh. Today, CNN has the results…
Supreme Court Makes It Harder for Tribal North Dakotans to Vote
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) faces a tougher road to reelection after Tuesday’s ruling.Jay Mallin/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower-court order requiring voters in North Dakota to present certain forms of identification and proof of their residential address in order to cast a ballot in…