Confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson (1 Viewer)

[MT15]

Hearings begin today. The smear has already started:

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

That Biden is senile which is quite obvious.

Where did you go to med school?

• Senility is not a precise medical term, but is often used in place of the more precise and accepted medical term of “dementia.”
• Experts said Biden does not exhibit signs of dementia. Dementia is defined as cognitive decline that is severe enough to cause someone to lose the ability to function independently in daily life.

https://www.politifact.com/factchec...rics-experts-say-brit-humes-claim-joe-biden-/

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

That Biden is senile which is quite obvious.

Pfft, better senile than out right mentally challenged.

 

[MT15]

He’s not senile. Anyone saying that has no idea what they are talking about. Or they don’t know the meaning of senile.

 

[SaintForLife]

He’s not senile. Anyone saying that has no idea what they are talking about. Or they don’t know the meaning of senile.

Let me guess, it's just his stutter or is there a new talking point on him forgetting what he's saying more and more often?

 

[MT15]

Let me guess, it's just his stutter or is there a new talking point on him forgetting what he's saying more and more often?

You didn’t give a crap about Trump’s many stumbles. Why do you care now? Joe’s doing a good job IMO. We have a united NATO that is threading the needle between supporting Ukraine without starting a wider conflict. He’s on a path to take a trillion dollars off of the deficit. He’s fixing the Post Office, he actually got infrastructure week done. There’s a lot more, but yes, let’s focus on his stutter.

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

Let me guess, it's just his stutter or is there a new talking point on him forgetting what he's saying more and more often?

Put up an example.

Here's mine:

 

[DaveXA]

You didn’t give a crap about Trump’s many stumbles. Why do you care now? Joe’s doing a good job IMO. We have a united NATO that is threading the needle between supporting Ukraine without starting a wider conflict. He’s on a path to take a trillion dollars off of the deficit. He’s fixing the Post Office, he actually got infrastructure week done. There’s a lot more, but yes, let’s focus on his stutter.

Priorities! We can't have complaints about real issues. Let's focus on stuttering. He can cure cancer on his own time.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Put up an example.

Here's mine:

Again...better senile than out right mentally challenged.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

 

[SaulGoodmanEsq]

That Biden is senile which is quite obvious.

I bet you kill with this kind of material in St. Tammany Parish comedy clubs!

 

[MT15]

Priorities! We can't have complaints about real issues. Let's focus on stuttering. He can cure cancer on his own time.

And I forgot about the lowest unemployment since the 1960’s, IIRC.

 

[Optimus Prime]

As bad as the GOP treatment of Jackson was it was replacing a Democratic justice with another

Doesn’t change the 6-3 ratio at all

Imagine if a Republican justice retires/dies during Biden’s administration and what that media coverage and confirmation hearings will be like

 

[DaveXA]

You didn’t give a crap about Trump’s many stumbles. Why do you care now? Joe’s doing a good job IMO. We have a united NATO that is threading the needle between supporting Ukraine without starting a wider conflict. He’s on a path to take a trillion dollars off of the deficit. He’s fixing the Post Office, he actually got infrastructure week done. There’s a lot more, but yes, let’s focus on his stutter.

I thought Biden did just fine and didn't mention Anita Hill once. I guess some people just love to complain because they got nothing better to do.

And soon to be Justice Jackson's remarks today were powerfully stated. I'm genuinely happy for her.

 

[Lapaz]

As bad as the GOP treatment of Jackson was it was replacing a Democratic justice with another

Imagine if a Republican justice retires/dies during Biden’s administration and what that media coverage and confirmation hearings will be like

I heard a couple of interesting ideas today on Sirius about how to deal with McConnell's plan to block all Democratic judicial nominees once, or if, they take control of the Senate. One idea was that Stephen Breyer could remain on the court, and Ketanji Jackson could become the 10th justice, which would partially offset the loss of the justice for Obama. Another related idea hinged on the question about how long a senate approval would be valid, since the suggestion was that Jackson could remain on the sideline until an opening occurs, and then she would be immediately appointed. This led me to yet another idea. What about getting pre-approvals for a couple more justices while Biden has the senate, and appoint them as openings arise. This could apply to lower courts as well.

 

[MT15]

I thought Biden did just fine and didn't mention Anita Hill once. I guess some people just love to complain because they got nothing better to do.

And soon to be Justice Jackson's remarks today were powerfully stated. I'm genuinely happy for her.

Yep, I thought Biden seemed genuinely happy for her too.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

This guy truly is an idiot..

Someone who can give birth to a child, a mother, is a woman. Someone who has a uterus is a woman. It doesn’t seem that complicated to me.”

Josh Hawley Slammed For Suggesting People Who've Had Hysterectomies Aren't Women

GOP Senator Josh Hawley was criticized for suggesting that women who have hysterectomies are not women.

www.comicsands.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Sobering article
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On the surface, Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court appeared to portend a hopeful future for liberals. She was the bright, youthful (as these things go) face of a more enlightened judiciary.

But appearances can be deceiving. A more accurate picture of the Court’s future could actually be discerned from two other stories that flanked it. The first was Ginni Thomas’s ravings to Donald Trump’s chief of staff — more specifically, the nonplussed response thereto from the Republican Establishment, which is perfectly satisfied to allow a prominent conservative activist to draw on her connection to an esteemed conservative jurist to promote QAnon-inflected conspiracy theories in the highest corridors of power.

The second was Mitch McConnell’s refusal to commit to hold any hearings for a potential Supreme Court vacancy should his party win a Senate majority when prodded by Jonathan Swan. McConnell made it clear that Jackson is likely the last Supreme Court justice Democrats will nominate for years, maybe even a decade or more.

Jackson’s confirmation was a brief, joyful respite. The future is a semi-permanent Republican judicial majority in which, contrary to the visual impression, Thomas’s worldview is much closer to the mainstream and Jackson’s is a relic of a rapidly fading past.

There is a plausible argument that the Ginni Thomas story did not reveal wrongdoing by Clarence Thomas or even his wife. (Being crazy is not a crime.) But this assumes the justice does not share any important elements in his wife’s deranged worldview. And while that assumption is possible — every marriage is different — it is hardly a safe assumption.

The trouble is that we simply don’t know whether, or to what degree, Clarence Thomas believes Trump really won the election, that a well of evidence could prove his victory, and so on. The life tenure of a Supreme Court justice means that, once given a seat on the Court, he could easily evolve from a reliable partisan to an unhinged, paranoid nut without exposing his seat to any risk or even necessarily giving any outward indication to the country. Conservatives admire Clarence Thomas, appreciate the results of his votes, and refuse to take any posture other than assuming the best and daring his critics to prove that he agrees with his wife — which is, of course, unprovable.

The scandal, in other words, is that we have to rely on the unprovable good faith of the Court’s justices. There barely exists any method to wall them off from partisan politics. A couple months ago, Neil Gorsuch appeared at a Federalist Society conference alongside Republicans such as Mike Pence, Ron DeSantis, and Kayleigh McEnany. A few months before that, Amy Coney Barrett fêted McConnell in a speech putatively dedicated to refuting the charge that she and her colleagues are “partisan hacks” but which in reality served to bolster it...........

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

I also read an article after the confirmation (tried to find it but couldn't remember where I had read it)

I was reading the comments and there was this gem of an exchange (paraphrased)
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"Why is this such a big deal?! Why is there always a big fuss made when there is the first black woman to do this? or the first Hispanic man to do that? You don't see us white men celebrating the first time we do something"

and the response

"That's because the first time a white man did a thing is the first day that thing was done"