Tag: Roy Moore

Roy Moore said taking away the right of women to vote would ‘eliminate many problems’

The following article by Zach Ford was posted on the ThinkProgress website December 11, 2017:

Removing all amendments after the Tenth “would eliminate many problems,” Moore said.

Alabama Republican Roy Moore faces Democrat Doug Jones in the Alabama Senate runoff. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

In 2011, Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore agreed with a radio host known for promoting conspiracy theories that the United States would be better off if the seventeen constitutional amendments that followed the original Bill of Rights were repealed.

“That would eliminate many problems,” Moore said in audio unearthed by CNN. “You know people don’t understand how some of these amendments have completely tried to wreck the form of government that our forefathers intended.”

The amendments following the 10th Amendment served some fairly important functions in the U.S. government: Continue reading “Roy Moore said taking away the right of women to vote would ‘eliminate many problems’”

Not Your Parents’ GOP

The following article bu Susan Milligan was posted on the U.S. News and World Report website December 8, 2017:

Credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Republican revolution of 1994 led onetime Democratic Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama to switch parties and become a proud member of the GOP. Next week’s election in Alabama may define the beginning of the end of the senior senator’s party as he’s known it.

When Shelby aligned with the party, Republicans were on an electoral and ideological roll. Having seized control of both the Senate and House, the GOP was on a mission to cut taxes, reform entitlement programs, slash domestic spending and shrink the federal footprint on Americans’ lives. Now, the Republican Party has been increasingly defined by what were once its fringe elements, observers in both parties bemoan, raising the question of whether the party, in its traditional model, is on its way out. Continue reading “Not Your Parents’ GOP”

Roy Moore, and the GOP’s prejudicial persecution complex

The following article by Aaron Blake was posed on the Washington Post website December 6, 2017:

President Trump and the RNC are formally supporting Roy Moore in his bid for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat, a month after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced. (Video: Jenny Starrs/Photo: Cameron Carnes/The Washington Post)

Roy Moore now has President Trump’s endorsement, support from the Republican National Committee and a reasonably strong chance of winning — all proving that the many GOP leaders who tried to stop him have little control over their party. Whatever control GOP leaders retained after the tea party movement, in fact, has been severely undermined by Trump. And Moore, who stands accused of sexual misconduct with multiple minors, is easily the best indicator of that to date.

But the reason something like Moore could happen is more complicated than just Trump. And Republicans can blame one thing that Trump stoked, with plenty of help: The party’s increasing persecution complex. Continue reading “Roy Moore, and the GOP’s prejudicial persecution complex”

When ‘Democrat’ is a worse slur than ‘alleged sexual miscreant’

The following article by Philip Bump was posted on the Washington Post website November 22, 2017:

President Trump’s rationale for continuing to support Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for the Senate in the Alabama, was simple when he offered it on Tuesday.

“We don’t need a liberal person in there, a Democrat,” Trump said.

The contrast Trump drew, then, was this. Either Moore, accused of sexual assault by one woman who was 16 at the time and of attempted groping by a woman who was 14 when it happened, or Doug Jones, accused of being a Democrat. Continue reading “When ‘Democrat’ is a worse slur than ‘alleged sexual miscreant’”

Trump Breaks Silence on Moore Allegations

The following article by John T. Bennett was posted on the Roll Call website November 21, 2017:

President Donald Trump points to his ears as he tries to hear shouted questions from reporters while departing the White House for Camp David on Sept. 8. (Win McNamee/Getty Images File Photo)

Updated 5:27 p.m. | President Donald Trump broke his silence Tuesday on Republican Roy Moore and the sexual assault allegations hindering his Alabama Senate bid but isn’t ruling out campaigning for the embattled candidate.

“I can tell you one thing for sure: We don’t need a liberal person in there, a Democrat,” Trump said over the loud hum of Marine One’s engine as he left for Florida.

Trump also said the allegations against Moore are several decades old. Continue reading “Trump Breaks Silence on Moore Allegations”

The White House has finally acknowledged its position on Roy Moore and it’s repulsive

The following article by Melanie Schmitz was posted on the ThinkProgress website November 20, 2017:

Kellyanne Conway on “Fox & Friends”, Monday, November 20, 2017. (Credit: Fox & Friends)

During an interview with Fox & Friends on Monday morning, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway urged Alabamans to vote for Republican Roy Moore, who is facing multiple allegations of child sex abuse, in the upcoming special election. Her reasoning: congressional GOP members needed a win on tax reform.

“Doug Jones in Alabama, folks, don’t be fooled,” she said. “He will be a vote against tax cuts. He is weak on crime. Weak on borders. He’s strong on raising your taxes. He is terrible for property owners. And Doug Jones is a doctrinaire liberal, which is why he’s not saying anything and why the media are trying to boost him.” Continue reading “The White House has finally acknowledged its position on Roy Moore and it’s repulsive”

White House struggles to explain Trump’s silence on Moore allegations

The following article by Sarah Kaplan was posted on the Washington Post website November 19, 2017:

President Trump is ignoring the women who have accused him and Senate candidate Roy Moore of harassment or assault, but attacking Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.). (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)

Amid a growing number of sexual harassment allegations against Roy Moore, White House officials tried to walk a fine line — acknowledging the seriousness of the allegations without outright calling for the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama to step down.

Nine women have accused Moore of a range of inappropriate conduct, including pursuing them when they were teenagers, groping and assault. Continue reading “White House struggles to explain Trump’s silence on Moore allegations”

Roy Moore’s attorney offers bizarre defense of Roy Moore

The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website November 15, 2017:

News anchors appeared to be offended by attorney Trenton Garmon while discussing the allegations of sexual harassment against his client Roy Moore. (Patrick Martin/The Washington Post)

First there was the Alabama state auditor whose biblical defense of Roy Moore suggested that he hadn’t read the Good Book in some time. Then we had the Moore-supporting journalist who compared the sexual touching of a 14-year old to stealing a lawn mower.

Not content to let anybody else have the worst possible defense of Moore, Moore’s own lawyer stepped to the plate Wednesday. And he took a big swing. Continue reading “Roy Moore’s attorney offers bizarre defense of Roy Moore”

New woman accuses Moore of sexual misconduct when she was a minor

The following article by Robert Costa and Jenna Johnson was posted on the Washington Post website November 13, 2017:

During a press conference Nov. 13, Beverly Young Nelson accused Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her in the 1970s when she was a teenager. (Reuters)

NEW YORK — An Alabama woman on Monday accused Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for Alabama’s open U.S. Senate seat, of sexually assaulting her and bruising her neck in the late 1970s when she was 16 years old.

This new allegation follows an extensive report published Thursday by The Washington Post that detailed allegations that Moore initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl when he was 32. The story also described his relationship with three other girls who were between the ages of 16 and 18 at the time. Moore has denied the allegations. Continue reading “New woman accuses Moore of sexual misconduct when she was a minor”

A straight-faced Kellyanne Conway says anyone in office who committed sexual assault should resign

The following article by Alan Pyke was posted on the ThinkProgress website November 12, 2017:

Irony is dead.

Kellyanne Conway, cemter, with husband George Conway, right, greet guests on the south lawn of the White House during a Halloween evemt. Credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway refused repeatedly to say whether Alabama Republican Roy Moore should step aside in his Senate race over allegations he is a serial child molester.

Conway, who played an essential role in protecting President Donald Trump’s candidacy a year ago when tapes of him describing his pattern of sexual assault nearly sunk his campaign, told ABC’s Martha Raddatz that the allegations are disqualifying if they are true but would not give a clear answer on her view of the charges.

In the process of demurring on Moore’s guilt or innocence, Conway said elected officials who are guilty of sexual assault or harassment should resign — a call to action that would seem to implicate Conway’s boss, who openly bragged about grabbing women and has been accused of sexual assault by numerous former associates. Continue reading “A straight-faced Kellyanne Conway says anyone in office who committed sexual assault should resign”