Any federal official can be impeached and removed from office. He can be charged with a crime. But to be honest, if the Senate can’t muster 51 votes to keep him off the court it’s sort of unreasonable to assume that they’ll ever be able to get 67 votes to force him out of office. And unless there’s something really…

Kavanaugh was driven nearly to penury trying to buy baseball tickets. He’s not exactly the type of guy who would be worth shaking down for money.

Nah, he’s going to morph into Beto and take a chainsaw to a preschool.

She did report it to the police, but unfortunately she failed to report it to the FBI, the CIA, and the United Nations Security Council, so how bad could it have been? Why should a good man be torn down when he is up for re-election to such an important post? If this guy can be taken down for something as irrelevant…

Honestly I think society would be much healthier and stronger if we did that. We have a tendency of over exaggerating the impact on men whose crimes are exposed, while at the same understating the impact on their victims for allowing the abuse to go unchecked.

Which one is it?

Pretty much. He’s getting heat from Trump because he refuses to use the Justice Department as Trump’s Praetorian Guard or help Republican allies commit crimes.

To be honest I think that any AG that Trump chose would be pushing the same policies in the same way. Hostility to immigrants is probably the closest thing that Trump has a coherent philosophy of government. He’s stocked his administration with people like Sessions and Miller, and pretty much everyone involved in that…

Do you have to be a political genius to suggest dumping the unpopular and controversial nominee in favor of someone who 1.) is identical to him ideologically and 2.) has less baggage?

The sad part is that this post would be equally accurate without the word “tech”.

Holy fuck, what is up with that second article? Was it Opposite Day at Jezebel? Did they hand over editorial control to some edgelord?

I don’t think they’re going to wait for an FBI investigation, especially if they know that the FBI won’t be conducting one. I don’t think anything has actually changed; some Republicans might be willing to delay the vote to by a week or so but I don’t think any of them will actually vote down Kavanaugh especially if…

If Drake was really being blackmailed or smeared, I’m glad that he’s going to the mat to defend himself. No one should ever be shamed for standing up for themselves if they are being attacked unfairly, even if they are a dweeb like Drake.

Who would have thought that Gorsuch would have been the relatively unproblematic nomination? 

I’m sorry, but that makes zero sense. The November elections have no impact on hearings scheduled in September. Why would they??

His year book quote was “the maura the merrier!”, so it’s safe to say that he had a type.

He probably has a legitimate reason to be there now, though.

My theory is that the issue is the fusion between Christianity and the macho nationalism/uber-patriotism of the US. Jesus focused on the poor and weak and dispossessed and usually ignored the strong and the wealthy. but if you’re looking at the people in the pews at a suburban mega church you’re mostly seeing the…

“I like people who don’t have leprosy.” 

SHS actually is a pretty good spokesperson for white evangelical Christianity as practiced in the US. If you enjoy the way she treats the press and the public and want that sort of treatment in your life 24/7, then I recommend that you convert.