50 Republicans + 1 Democrat Are Voting for Brett Kavanaugh
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We’ve Got Another Essential Song for Your Feminist Rage Playlist
Dan Anderson Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Long week? For us too. The sheer misery of the ongoing Kavanaugh drama has just amplified the horrors of the Trump administration, and we needed a song that could channel that national feminist rage into something soulful, hopeful, and even constructively combative. We have all that for you and…
Joe Manchin’s Argument for Voting for Brett Kavanaugh Makes No Sense
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just seconds after Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins announced she would, in the end, support Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court—effectively assuring he will prevail in the final vote on Saturday—the last Democrat still on the fence, West…
Susan Collins Will Vote to Confirm Brett Kavanaugh
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Friday announced that she will vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, effectively sealing the deal for Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. In a speech on the Senate floor, Collins said that she believed that…
All the Votes are In On Brett Kavanaugh — Except for Two
It’s down to Joe Manchin and Susan Collins. Everyone else has announced how they’ll vote.Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At this point, it appears that Jeff Flake will vote yes on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, while Lisa Murkowski will vote no. That…
Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke Guilty of Murder in Laquan McDonald Shooting
Officer Jason Van Dyke listens to the prosecution’s closing statements at his murder trial.Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/AP/Pool Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A jury in Cook County, Illinois, has found white Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, who shot and killed black 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014, guilty of second-degree murder. The…