Category: Kevin Drum

From a former deputy DA who worked alongside Roy Moore: It was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls, everyone we knew thought it was weird…We wondered why someone his age would hang out at high school football games and the mall. Okey dokey.

I keep seeing stuff like this: If Doug Jones, the Democratic nominee [for Alabama’s open Senate seat], wins next month, Mr. McConnell’s majority will shrink to one, possibly imperiling the Republican push to overhaul the tax code and most everything else that lawmakers are aiming to do to reverse their spiral before the midterm elections.…

Trigger warning: Watching this video might make you ill. Roy Moore met by GOP cheers just outside Birmingham in first public appearance since allegations: pic.twitter.com/OWELn5TCa8 — Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 11, 2017 So what is the Republican Party going to do about its Roy Moore problem? Republican senators and their advisers, in a flurry of…

Kremlin Pool/Planet Pix via ZUMA Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States, the greatest negotiator the world has ever seen: Did Russia’s attempts to meddle in US elections come up in the conversations? He said he didn’t meddle, he said he didn’t meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many…

From the Los Angeles Times: Brett J. Talley, President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual…

Octavio Jones/Tampa Bay Times via ZUMA From the Wall Street Journal: Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating an alleged plan involving former White House national security adviser Mike Flynn to forcibly remove a Muslim cleric living in the U.S. and deliver him to Turkey in return for millions of dollars, according to people familiar with…