Next time you tune in to a high-profile Senate hearing—perhaps to view a Supreme Court nominee sit to be questioned during his or her nomination process—consider this: A man sodomized another man in that very room, in one of the very seats that a U.S. senator would sit to engage in constitutional duties.
The person involved in this incident—a Senate staffer—has since been relieved of his position.
Unfortunately, the now former staffer will face no further punishment, as a senior congressional official stated that “no crime was committed”—assuming the sex in the Senate Judicary Committee’s hearing room was consensual.
And what might even be worse, the staffer, in a childish and unsuccessful attempt to shift the narrative, hardly acknowledged any wrongdoing, stating that he has been “attacked for who [he] love[s] to pursue a political…
