brett kavanaugh

• Opinion

Zurawik attacks Trump again

Television critic David Zurawik spends too much time attacking President Donald Trump.

• Opinion

Social media, toxic masculinity make big trouble in Ohio town, throughout the culture today

Toxic masculinity taught, learned and writ large under Friday Night lights and in drunken Saturday night parties ending in rape. All social media amplified.

By David Zurawik

Jun 13, 2019

• Opinion

New abortion laws may save Roe v. Wade

Sponsors of extreme abortion laws are betting that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation will upend Roe v. Wade. I think they're wrong.

• Opinion

Goldberg: Trump loyalists will turn their backs on McGahn

Jonah Goldberg: Loyalty to President Trump is now the definition of what it means to be a conservative.

• Opinion

On death penalty, Supreme Court veering badly off course

States are abandoning the death penalty, so why is the nation's highest court embracing its most barbaric elements?

• Opinion

'You've got Easton grouped with Carroll County?!?' Why having a Marylander on the Supreme Court could mean the end of gerrymandering

Could Justice Brett Kavanaugh be the surprise slayer of partisan gerrymandering? Maybe — because he's actually seen the consequences up close.

• Opinion

Partisan poison sown by Trump on display at explosive Cohen TV hearing

If you wanted to understand why there is such gridlock in Congress and our national politics, all you had to do was watch the GOP members of this panel first try to get Cohen’s testimony shut down before it began on a procedural complaint. When that didn’t work, they went after Elijah Cummings.

By David Zurawik

Feb 27, 2019

• Opinion

What happens when a city plagued by gun violence gets more guns?

Supreme Court may soon force communities like Baltimore to allow most everyone to carry a firearm.

• Opinion

There oughta be a (Supreme Court) law!

Now that tempers have calmed and some time has passed since the contentious questioning and confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, it seems appropriate to explore ideas for preventing a repeat performance. A Supreme Court Law would resolve controversies before confirmation.

• Opinion

Empathy advocate fails to show it for Kavanaugh

Writer calls for greater empathy - which is appropriate - but then can't muster much of it for Brett Kavanaugh which is not.

• Opinion

Empathy: we need it now more than ever

Empathy, defined by Webster, is the ability to identify and understand another’s situation, feelings and motives. Basically, empathy is putting yourself in someone else’s place. Sadly this all-important trait in dealing successfully with people seems to be sorely lacking today.

• Opinion

Suspected murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi can't be swept under rug

Trump must not take economic sanctions off the table in Khashoggi disappearance.

• Opinion

Witcover: Trump's unintended public service is getting out the vote

Jules Witcover: President Trump is not on the ballot, but Americans will still be voting for or against him on Nov. 6.

• Opinion

Goldberg: Kavanaugh confirmation was ugly, and things will only get uglier

Confirming Brett Kavanaugh was the best outcome at the end of a hellish decision tree that left the country with no ideal option. Reasonable people may differ on that. But what seems more obvious: It's all going to get worse. Because everyone is taking the wrong lessons from the Kavanaugh debacle.

• Opinion

Robert B. Reich: Containing the catastrophe

Robert Reich: All three branches of government are now under the control of one party controlled by Donald Trump.

• Opinion

Male sexual assault survivor calls Kavanaugh confirmation 'an insult'

I was sexually assaulted — raped — in my early 20s. It's not something I've come to terms with (if one ever does) until recently. Being a man, it's a bit more difficult to reveal these things. Men are supposed to be strong. Victims are sissies.

• Opinion

Zurawik: Trump's latest production, 'The Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh,' ends on high, nasty note on prime-time TV

The staged TV production was a victory lap, a touchdown dance in the end zone, a Team Trump political rally and an in-your-face-suckers taunt from the man in the White House to all his critics.

By David Zurawik

Oct 8, 2018

• Opinion

Attitudes, more than alcohol use, predict sexual assault

Sexual assault is not merely a chance byproduct of an uninhibited, inebriated moment. Decades of research show that perpetrating sexual assault reflects a man’s beliefs about women at the time of the assault, regardless of whether alcohol is involved.

• Opinion

Goldberg: It's wrong to assume Kavanaugh would be a partisan justice

Jonah Goldberg: The U.S. Supreme Court needs more justices on it with Brett Kavanaugh's constitutional philosophy.

• Politics

U.S. Senate challengers fault Cardin in debate for not solving problems

Republican Tony Campbell and independent Neal Simon met Cardin on Sunday at WBFF-TV for their sole televised debate.

By Michael Dresser

Oct 7, 2018

• Sexual Misconduct

Kavanaugh is confirmed to high court as divisions, protests roil Senate

By a vote of 50-48, the U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, and he was sown in shortly afterward, while protesters shouting outside the Capitol.

• Politics

Maryland women share harrowing sexual assault accounts with state Sens. Chris Van Hollen, Ben Cardin

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen took to the Senate floor on Saturday and read harrowing accounts of women who said the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had emboldened them to share their own stories.

By Jeff Barker

Oct 6, 2018

• Opinion

Kavanaugh media takeaway: It takes more than TV hearings, hashtags to change the culture

Getting caught up in a TV hearing and typing a hashtag about it is not the same as putting your body on the line in a protest march to do the hard work of social change.We have come to believe too much in the power of media to change our lives without the risk and pain it takes to actually do that.

By David Zurawik

Oct 5, 2018

• Maryland

Former students of nun who urged no vote on Kavanaugh ask: Where were you when we were being sexually assaulted?

Sister Kathleen McNany's letter urged senators to vote against SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a stance that angers several of her former students who says she never spoke up in the 1970s when her fellow teacher, John Merzbacher, was raping and abusing them at a South Baltimore Catholic school.

By Jean Marbella

Oct 5, 2018

• Politics

Maryland Gov. Hogan declines to say whether he would confirm Kavanaugh if he were senator

Last week, Hogan joined three other Republican governors who called on the U.S. Senate to delay a confirmation vote on Kavanaugh until there’s an independent investigation.

By Luke Broadwater

Oct 5, 2018

• Features

Towson alum Amy Schumer had a run-in with Capitol police at a Kavanaugh protest

Comedian Amy Schumer was protesting the Supreme Court nomination of former White House staff secretary Brett Kavanaugh Thursday in Washington when she had a run-in with police, according to several reports, and it seems like the Towson alumna saw it coming.

By Brittany Britto

Oct 4, 2018

• Politics

Baltimore's Benedictine Sisters implore female senators to vote no on Kavanaugh confirmation

Sister Kathleen McNany and 13 of her Benedictine Sisters of Baltimore sent a letter to all female U.S. senators this week asking them to vote against the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

By Catherine Rentz

Oct 4, 2018

• Opinion

The fix is in for Brett Kavanaugh

The FBI investigation into Brett Kavanaugh was never about finding the truth; it was about vulnerable GOP senators covering their backsides.

• Sexual Misconduct

Group in downtown Bel Air protests Kavanaugh nomination

An estimated 40 to 50 people gathered at the intersection of Main Street and Churchville Road in downtown Bel Air Wednesday to protest the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

By David Anderson

Oct 3, 2018

• Politics

Former Maryland congressional candidate shares explicit alleged details about Kavanaugh accuser's sex life

The statement was circulated by the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

• Opinion

Trump shows his true colors with attack on Christine Blasey Ford

If Jeff Flake, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have souls (and saw President Trump's mocking of Christine Blasey Ford), now is the time for them to take a stand.

• Opinion

Kavanaugh — too beligerent and biased

Brett Kavanaugh has demonstrated through word and deed that he is ill-suited for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

• Opinion

Robert B. Reich: America's bullies

The midterm elections aren't a contest between right or left, but bullies and the bullied, says Robert Reich.

• Opinion

Kavanaugh's 'job interview' an inquisition

Brett Kavanaugh isn't getting a 'job interview' from Democrats, he's getting the latest example of 'Borking.'

• Opinion

Colvin respects women while Harris does not

In Maryland's 1st, Andy Harris has proven himself incapable of relating to women who are victims of sexual abuse; his political opponent doesn't suffer that malady.

• Opinion

An 'encouraging' and 'gut-wrenching' week for women — especially black women

For women, it is hard to imagine a week more encouraging or more gut-wrenching — and yet I fear that we are in for more of the same as we await the final decision on whether Mr. Kavanaugh becomes the next justice of the United States Supreme Court and Mr. Cosby’s team pursues an appeal.

• Opinion

Is Kavanaugh getting his own public 'lynching?'

The Sun writes about lynchings even as Democrats try to give one to a Supreme Court nominee.

• Opinion

In a word: tu quoque

Your bonus word of the week is tu quoque. 

• Opinion

Kavanaugh investigation should be limited by time — but nothing else

President Trump says FBI should be talking to "whoever they deem appropriate" in Kavanaugh background check and it's a growing list.

• Maryland

A consistent thread [Letter]

With regard to Mr. Lambros’ assertion that those opposed to Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation cannot handle the truth – has he not noticed that President Trump seems to have very little appreciation for the truth?

• Maryland

Kavanaugh hearings between reality TV, bad sitcom [Letter]

Being able to record and watch the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh to be the next Supreme Court justice was somewhere between reality TV and a bad sitcom.

• Opinion

Witcover: Last-minute reprieve in the Senate Judiciary Committee

The last-minute delay in Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, to allow for an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against him, may save the Senate Judiciary Committee from a rerun of the earlier Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill fiasco.

• Opinion

Andy Harris calls Kavanaugh accuser a 'troubled woman,' suggesting she can't be trusted

In a radio interview, Maryland Republican congressman Andy Harris emphasizes Ford's "psychological problems" while accepting Kavanaugh's denial.

By Dan Rodricks

Oct 1, 2018

• Maryland

Montgomery officials 'prepared to investigate' Kavanaugh allegations — if an alleged victim comes forward

Montgomery County’s chief of police and the county state’s attorney said Friday they have not launched an investigation into sexual assault allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh — though they “remain prepared to investigate any allegation, should a victim come forward.”

• Politics

Maryland's U.S. senators support FBI probe and question Kavanaugh's impartiality

Maryland's U.S. senators back a new FBI probe and question Brett Kavanaugh's impartiality after 'meltdown' before committee. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen said a full accounting is needed of Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegation.

By Jeff Barker

Sep 28, 2018

• Opinion

Kavanaugh proved his unfitness for the court

Judge Brett Kavanaugh demonstrated his poor judicial temperament during Thursday's hearing.

• Opinion

Frontline takes on biggest story line in American life with 'Trump's Showdown'

Frontline takes on the central storyline of our time: Trump vs. Mueller.

By David Zurawik

Sep 28, 2018

• Politics

Hogan among four GOP governors seeking delay of Kavanaugh vote

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is among four Republican governors calling on the U.S. Senate to delay a confirmation vote on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh until there’s an independent investigation of whether he committed one or more sexual assaults while in high school.

By Luke Broadwater

Sep 27, 2018

• Opinion

Zurawik: Kavanaugh-Ford makes for an epic day of TV, politics and emotion. But what do we know to be true?

After eight hours of testimony from Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, we have lots of emotion and little new information.

By David Zurawik

Sep 27, 2018

• Maryland

What is Beach Week? Kavanaugh’s calendar points to a booze-soaked Maryland tradition

Beach week, or senior week, has entered the political fray before Brett Kavanaugh. Remember Doug Gansler?