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She will be the first woman of color and first out LGBTQ+ person on the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, but she had to endure some Republican grilling to get there.
The 71-year-old used the words “lube” and “cock” in a sentence during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing..
Louisiana Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy made the outrageous remark during a heated exchange.
Greene, outraged by a clip of a trans woman attempting to breastfeed, says the woman and her husband should lose custody of their child.
John Roberts is taking his place as the next leader of the Supreme Court, with a commanding majority of the Senate backing him to lead the court through cases involving controversial social issues that will affect generations to come.
As the epic battle for the Democratic nomination grows ever nastier, average voters have a role to play in holding the party together.
Stella Keating testified eloquently in favor of the LGBTQ+ rights bill, while Alphonso David stood up to the South Carolina senator's distortions.
Even someone like Kevin McCarthy thinks the way Republicans are attacking Harris is “stupid,” writes John Casey.
Ahanu and Petrona wanted to positively represent trans parenthood. Their thanks was being attacked by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination on Monday as a "man with extraordinary gifts of leadership and character" and a worthy heir to his brother, John F. Kennedy, who is still revered among Democrats four decades after his assassination. "I feel change in the air," Kennedy said in prepared remarks salted with scarcely veiled criticism of Obama's chief rival for the nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as her husband, the former president.
The author of a new book on the complicated and consequential Kennedy and his life's work on AIDS and marginalized communities, and how he always found a partner on the other side of the aisle.
This could be the year Democrats officially embrace marriage equality.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy gave a thumbs-up to well-wishers and kisses to relatives as he walked out of the hospital Wednesday, a day after learning he has a cancerous brain tumor. A square bandage at the back of his head marked the spot where doctors performed a biopsy Monday that led them to diagnose the Massachusetts Democrat with malignant glioma. Experts say such tumors are almost always fatal.
A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics' most enduring figures. Doctors for the Massachusetts Democrat say tests conducted after Kennedy suffered a seizure this weekend show a tumor in his left parietal lobe. Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the cause of the seizure as a malignant glioma. His treatment will be decided after more tests, but the usual course includes combinations of radiation and chemotherapy.
Michaela Kennedy Cuomo posted on Instagram for Pride Month, describing herself as bi and sending support "to the whole spectrum of sexualities."
