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Representative Newt Gingrich Shrugging, October 02, 1990 (Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Jim Jordan, Newt Gingrich and history

Heather Digby Parton
Stormy Daniels; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

5 sex scandals involving Republicans

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Jim Jordan (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Jordan post-Rosenstein dud: I'm running!

Matthew Rozsa
(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Dennis Hastert talks to Newsweek. Why?

Matthew Sheffield
(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Hastert out of prison

Matthew Rozsa
Dennis Hastert (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Institutional sexual abuse

Donald McCarthy
(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Hastert's going to prison

Brendan Gauthier
Dennis Hastert (Reuters/Frank Polich)

Sophia Tesfaye
Dennis Hastert (Reuters/Frank Polich)

Conservative Hypocrites

Amanda Marcotte

Noah on Hastert, church

Brendan Gauthier
FILE - In this June 9, 2015 file photo, former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert departs the federal courthouse in Chicago. Hastert pleaded guilty in October of 2015 to violating bank laws as he sought to pay $3.5 million in hush money. Hastert's lawyers want a judge to spare Hastert from prison time in the case and give him probation. A filing Wednesday, April 6, 2016 comes before the 74-year-old Republican's sentencing by a federal judge April 27. (AP Photo/Christian K. Lee, File) (AP)

No pity for Dennis Hastert

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Dennis Hastert goes down

Michael Tarm
(C-SPAN)

Hastert's "homosexual" file

Sophia Tesfaye
(AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Scott Eric Kaufman

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
(AP/Reuters/Brian Frank/Jonathan Ernst/Lauren Victoria Burke/Photo montage by Salon)

GOP's demented family values

Sean Illing
(AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Joanna Rothkopf
(AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Eric Boehlert - Media Matters
FILE - In this June 15, 2007 file photo, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., sits for a portrait in his Capitol Hill office. On Thursday, May 28, 2015, federal prosecutors indicted Hastert, 73, on bank-related charges. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Joanna Rothkopf
(AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Paul Campos
FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2007, file photo, former House Speaker Dennis, Hastert, R-Ill., announces that he will not seek re-election for a 12th term in Yorkville, Ill. Federal prosecutors have indicted Thursday, May 28, 2015, the former U.S. House Speaker on bank-related charges. (AP/Brian Kersey)

Joanna Rothkopf
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