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  October 6, 2022 Heather Cox Richardson Oct 7   The scandal involving Herschel Walker, the staunchly anti-abortion Georgia candidate for the Senate who appears to have paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009, got worse today. After he claimed he did not know the woman who said he paid for an abortion, the woman said she was the mother of one of his other, newly acknowledged, children, so of course he knows her. Just five years ago, Representative Tim Murphy (R-PA), who belonged to the Republican Pro-Life Caucus, resigned just hours after the story broke that he pressured a woman with whom he was having an affair to get an abortion. Now, Republicans are rallying around Walker, with former NRA spokesperson and former  Breitbart  writer Dana Loesch saying: “I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the Senate.” In the  Philadelphia Inquirer , columnist Will Bunch pointed out that Republican leaders have not condem...

October 3, 2022 Heather Cox Richardson Oct 4   This morning, the trial of Oath Keeper founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes and four others began in Washington, D.C. They are on trial for various counts of seditious conspiracy, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy to prevent U.S. officials from carrying out their official duties, obstruction of justice, and impeding police officers, all related to their important part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. These are five of the nine charged; according to  Lawfare  editor Roger Parloff, who has been following the case closely, the other four will go on trial in November, and the split is because there wasn’t a courtroom big enough in Washington to hold a trial of all nine. Parloff also notes that the last “unambiguously successful” seditious conspiracy trial was of Omar Abdel Rahman, the so-called blind sheik, and his associates for bombing the World Trade Center in 1993. Since then, the charge h...

  View in browser   BY  CALDER MCHUGH Herschel Walker speaks to media at a campaign event. | Megan Varner/Getty Images ELECTION BOMBSHELL   —   Stunning reports came to light in the Georgia and Pennsylvania Senate races this week — “October surprise” stories that could affect the outcome in two of the most important contests in the battle for control of the Senate. In Georgia, GOP abortion rights opponent  Herschel Walker reportedly paid for a girlfriend’s abortion  — a damaging revelation exacerbated by  his son’s subsequent social media posts  denouncing his father as a liar. (POLITICO has not independently confirmed this reporting from The Daily Beast and Walker has denied the allegation.) In Pennsylvania, Jezebel  reported that Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz led a research team that conducted science experiments which resulted in the death of over 300 dogs . When asked for a response to the reporting by Newsweek, an Oz campaign spokesperso...