AuthorEmily Crockett

Brian Kemp, the Republican nominee for governor of Georgia, is also overseeing his own election as Georgia’s current secretary of state — and he’s been pulling out all the stops to try to suppress minority voters in his very close race with Democrat Stacey Abrams, who would become the first black woman governor in the U.S. if she won. Luckily for Georgia voters, Kemp’s cynical...

The Trump administration literally wants to define transgender people out of existence when it comes to anti-discrimination law, according to an explosive report by the New York Times. The Department of Health and Human Services “is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort...

Ever since they stole a Supreme Court seat from President Barack Obama in 2016 by refusing to even give Merrick Garland a hearing, Senate Republicans have been running roughshod over democratic norms in order to pack the courts with hard-right conservative ideologues. Recently, of course, they jammed through the nomination of accused sexual predator and right-wing hack Brett Kavanaugh — even...

When Senate Republicans voted this weekend to confirm alleged sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, they proved once again that the GOP is the party of rape. And just in case you thought that was a fluke, Republican congressional candidate Denver Riggleman stepped in on Monday to claim that rape and sexual assault can be prevented by “educating females.” During the...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who pretends to support women’s rights, spent weeks pretending to be undecided about confirming Brett Kavanaugh — an alleged sexual predator and an anti-choice ideologue — to the Supreme Court. Collins proved that her hand-wringing over Kavanaugh was a sham when she gave an extremely long, extremely partisan speech Friday explaining her decision to cast a key...

Given that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been credibly accused by multiple women of drunken sexual assault in his high school and college years, it’s no surprise that he’s been getting a lot of questions about his drinking habits and attitudes toward women during those years. Kavanaugh’s “responses” to these questions under oath have been obvious lies —...

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders repeatedly insisted during a Wednesday press briefing that Trump’s vicious mockery of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford wasn’t mockery at all — he was just “stating facts.” “Isn’t there something wrong with the president of the United States mocking someone who said she was sexually assaulted?” asked CNN’s...

After somehow refraining from saying anything terrible about Dr. Christine Blasey Ford for days on end, Trump let loose at a Tuesday night campaign rally with vicious mockery of Ford’s brave public testimony about being sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were both in high school. It was so cruel, childish, and indefensible that even Fox News and die-hard...

Trump has long insisted that he became a self-made billionaire after accepting a “small loan” of $1 million from his father, Fred Trump, and that he supposedly paid back every penny of it with interest. Yet Trump has also infamously refused to release his tax returns, unlike every other U.S. presidential candidate in the last several decades — which has made it nearly impossible to...

October is LGBTQ History Month in the United States — and the Trump administration is celebrating by oppressing same-sex couples who work for the United Nations. The administration is offering an awful “choice” to the same-sex partners of people who work for U.S.-based international organizations: get legally married, or get out of the country. Trump’s State Department is...