to refute this false allegation, from 36 years ago

But how many in that random gathering of lawyers would feel that a sitting president cannot be indicted or charged with anything? I honestly don’t know, but that seems to be the over-arching positive trait they’ve found in Kavanaugh, that he will protect that fat orange ass no matter what.

Its a timing thing at this point - they need to get him appointed before the mid terms.

I think of all of this, the thing that astonishes me the most is that they’re willing to go to these lengths to defend Brett fucking Kavanaugh. Like, seriously, GOP, throw a rock at any gathering of lawyers and you are likely to find someone just as conservative, just as unprincipled, and probably twice as qualified.…

The most baffling thing I find about the “good boy who made mistakes” take is that it can somehow exist alongside the “if she’s telling the truth, why didn’t she go to the police?” takes.

I was going to say this. He was a teenager in high school, not that it excuses it, but it’s at least more understandable than someone like Roy Moore dating teenagers as a man in his 30s. Teenager, in the 80s, poor understanding of consent, blah blah.... you could easily take this situation and spin into a positive for…

Because they knew and they were waiting for this.

I am a survivor of middle school sexual assault, and I can tell you with certainty that this woman is not exaggerating when she says it still seriously impacts her life to this day. There are still times when I smell the soap my rapist used (which thankfully isn’t often) and go momentarily back to that place. The only…

You didn’t have all of your traumatic memories erased on your 18th bday? Must be a regional thing.

Shitty part is that it won’t make a difference at all. 

Although the alleged incident took place decades ago and the three individuals involved were minors, the woman said that the memory had been a source of ongoing distress for her

Let’s also take a moment to appreciate that we’re changing “severe or pervasive” to “severe and pervasive and objectively offensive.” So... a onetime sexual assault isn’t, by definition, pervasive. It only fulfills two conditions out of three under the new standard. So... dismiss the complaint? (Also, I’m not seeing a…

MONEY FROM DONORS

The new definition defines it as “unwelcome conduct on the basis of sex that is so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive that it denies a person access to the school’s education program or activity.”

Counterpoint:  Do dress like Andre the Giant.  Also, flip a car.  Then people won’t mess with you.

Indeed. And don’t even get me started on state and federal health insurance program coverage. The plain fact is that exclusion of coverage for abortions by medicaid IS an undue burden for a huge percentage of women. And that’s before you even get into all the nonsense about waiting periods and ultrasounds and the…

Kavanaugh may or may not vote to flat out strike down Roe, but I guarantee you he will happily allow laws to chip away at it until it’s law in name only. I hope Susan Collins is happy with that stance on the Roe she keeps talking about supporting.

The u/s said I was half a week or so past the cut off, which I was surprised to learn was that early in my liberal state. I heard the nurse mutter something to the doctor, he hissed in response, “I’m not sending her to [next state over].”

In the academy’s defense, LOTR would have taken a bunch of awards 3 years in a row. I think it’s pretty understood that the LOTR oscars are for the trilogy as a whole.

They could just give it to movies that are critically and commercially successful, like they used to do.