Speaker Mike Johnson campaigned with now-disgraced reality TV star Josh Duggar years ago in Louisiana. Johnson has a long close association with Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, who has been connected to religious and political leaders accused of sexual abuse. Johnson called Duggar, now in prison for child pornography, a “friend” when the two …
Josh Duggar will remain in prison for many more years, after his appeal for a new child pornography trial was rejected. Duggar, whose large family was the focus of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting, was convicted in 2021 for downloading child sex abuse images and is currently serving a 12.5-year prison sentence. Court documents obtained …
Jill Duggar continues to pull back the curtain on her famous family, this time sharing tense memories about interactions with her parents in her new tell-all memoir. The book, titled Counting the Cost, details her experience trying to manage fame as part of the 19 Kids and Counting reality TV family — and the chasm …
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld Josh Duggar’s conviction for downloading child sexual abuse images, rejecting the former reality television star’s argument that a judge should have suppressed statements he made to investigators during the search that found the images. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the appeal …