Democrats in 2016 demanded Senate Republicans "do their job" and give a hearing and vote to President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, in spite of it being a presidential election year. 
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) accused the FBI of running a bogus tip line while investigating allegations of sexual misconduct against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the latest in a sequence of serious but unsubstantiated claims the Rhode Island Democrat has made about Kavanaugh and his confirmation process. 
Several top Democrats opposing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 said women do not concoct sexual assault allegations and accuser Christine Blasey Ford had "nothing to gain" from her accusation. 
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) got testy Thursday morning with a reporter who asked her about Democrats' different standards of evidence for allegations against Joe Biden versus allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. 
On March 25, Tara Reade accused former vice president Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993. Imagine if, instead of airing the allegation on a podcast, Reade had sent an anonymous letter to a leading Republican senator. Imagine if the reporters couldn't track down a single person who recalled Reade telling them about the assault around the time it was alleged to have occurred. How would the New York Times cover the story? Would it cover the story at all? 
The New York Times edited a controversial passage in an article about a sexual assault allegation against former vice president Joe Biden after his campaign complained, the paper's executive editor said Monday. 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday announced plans to nominate a vocal ally of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to an influential federal appeals court in Washington.
After doubling down on comments threatening two conservative Supreme Court justices, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) now says he misspoke. 
Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine) has been receiving profanity-laced voicemails ahead of the Senate vote to determine whether witnesses will testify in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. 
Brett Kavanaugh's official duties as the junior member of the Supreme Court include running the High Court's cafeteria. That's great news for ambitious young law clerks who love beer but don't want a pesky hangover to get in the way of their own duties advising the justices and/or babysitting Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 