Aiden Maese-Czeropski made a life-altering mistake when he filmed himself having sex in a Senate hearing room, but he’s hardly the first, and likely won’t be the last, person on Capitol Hill to have had such an active hand in altering their own political career.

Pictures and videos of the incident started circulating last week, leading The Spectator to run a gossip piece Friday that identified one of the men in the video as an aide to Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md. The Daily Caller later that day published censored clips of the tape that showed two men having sex in a Hart Senate Office Building hearing room. By Saturday night, Maese-Czeropski was out of a job.

In a town where proposals to amend permitting standards under the National Environmental Policy Act get unironically described as “sexy,” a scandal involving actual sex is almost too salacious to handle. Read More>>