Justice Stephen Breyer to retire...Update: Ketanji Brown Jackson to be nominated to SCOTUS

[Voice of Reason]

Ignoring all of the GOP political theatre how do you think she will actually rule on certain cases?



Is she really a "liberal"?

 

[Arianne Martell]

TLR finally banned diaspora war flaming, so it would hardly seem appropriate in HL.

i don’t know what you are talking about

 

[Voice of Reason]

The Keisha chick is non-ADOS

 

[Voice of Reason]

TLR finally banned diaspora war flaming, so it would hardly seem appropriate in HL.

Nope it's important to identify and call out. There is nothing wrong with pointing out that her ancestry doesn't trace back American slavery.

 

[Reality Check]

The reaction of the GOP wing would be on some "We can leave this seat vacant till 2025 if we have to....!" until they realize that the Midterms ain't a slam dunk anymore thanks to Biden ripping the Russian economy apart and their main money source up in smoke

Then you see the likes of MTG taking an AK-47 and shooting herself to shreds

There's also the fact that much like this seat. if he passes away before the fall, there's absolutely nothing Republicans could do because they are in the minority and already set the precedent for rushing a nominee through with Barrett. Only thing they would be able to do is performance art so they can get an appearance on Fox News.

Tom KKKotton has the most punchable face ever.

He looks like someone who was repeatedly stuffed into lockers as a teenager.

Conservatives are pressuring Manchin to oppose Jackson.

There will probably be a handful of Republicans who will vote to confirm (Romney, Collins, Murkowski, maybe Sasse).

 

[Ku$h Parker]

Corey Booker been a real one through this whole hearing the past couple days

I dont know much about breh other than his failed run in the primaries last cycle and he from NJ and he was knocking down Rosario but they should put some power behind him and push. He got that young energy that the dems need

Exact same way he operated when he was the mayor of Newark.

Ive been Team Booker since seeing this lil Doc on him on PBS when he was NJ Mayor...heard he significantly reduced Crime in your Camdens/JC etc so Salute N-E-W Jerz,yall got a Real One

 

[mastermind]

yeah but his old ass let that shyt slide the whole time….once they went on a break he found courage to condemn him surrounded by reporters.

Dahlia Lithwick from Slate pointed this out too:

Cory Booker Aside, Democrats Stranded Ketanji Brown Jackson

I wrote earlier this week about the utter failure on the part of Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats to connect this hearing to what is going to be a catastrophic series of progressive losses at the Supreme Court this term, and the almost staggering inability to lay out any kind of theory for progressive jurisprudence, or even a coherent theory for the role of an unelected judiciary in a constitutional democracy. My colleague Mark Joseph Stern wrote today about a broadside attack on the whole idea of unenumerated rights, substantive due process, and the entire line of cases that protect Americans from forced sterilization, indoctrination of their children, and penalties for using birth control, and afford them the right to marry whom they want. More mysterious than this coordinated GOP project to undermine LGBTQ rights, marriage equality, contraception, and abortion—again, none of this is new or shocking—was the almost complete silence from Senate Democrats on these issues of substantive due process, privacy, and bodily autonomy. On the simplest level, the hearing might have been an opportunity to explain why Roe v. Wade is in fact the tip of the constitutional iceberg; that the same doctrinal underpinnings at risk in this term’s looming catastrophe of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization could lead to existential losses of countless other freedoms. But the hearings were framed as if Republicans stand to lose the court and the midterms, while the Democrats behaved as if the future of the courts, the Senate, and democracy itself has no bearing on what happened inside the Senate chamber.

I understand that the decision was taken to just get the nominee confirmed. Take the win. But for those of us watching and waiting to see Democrats support and back the nominee, there was an immense sense of underreaction. Jackson looked alone fending off the QAnon smear brigade for much of these hearings because she was alone, at least until Sen. Cory Booker took it upon himself in his last colloquy to offer up a powerful corrective to the hatred being leveled at her, and to remind us why love can be an equal and opposite reaction to fear.

Chairman dikk Durbin’s inability to control some of the most shocking bullying and abuse from Cruz, Graham, Tom Cotton, and Hawley left observers speechless. At some point, you need to just start gaveling. But there was also a pervasive sense of Democratic senators’ almost chilling unwillingness to go to the mat for their nominee, who was being savaged by Cotton, who called her “not credible,” and Graham, who berated her with the claim that he was sparing her from being bullied like Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Take my word for this one thing: If you have been subject to abuse, bullying, and intimidation, what you really don’t need to hear from people in power is that they think you are “brave,” or that you’re modeling perseverance and grace. What you really want is for someone to stand beside you and take a punch—or throw one. Yet beyond a handful of such moments, and notably Booker’s final speech, virtually everything Democrats did felt insufficient to the moment. More than that, it felt inexplicable.

 

[88m3]

TLR finally banned diaspora war flaming, so it would hardly seem appropriate in HL.

wow

 

[Arianne Martell]

Dahlia Lithwick from Slate pointed this out too:

Cory Booker Aside, Democrats Stranded Ketanji Brown Jackson

spot on

 

[Piff Perkins]

Dahlia Lithwick from Slate pointed this out too:

Cory Booker Aside, Democrats Stranded Ketanji Brown Jackson

This strikes me as such a worthless take. She’s been nominated to the SC. She will be confirmed to the SC. The hearing antics of republicans may rile up hardcore democrats who are watching the hearings (IE a small minority of people) but they largely don’t matter.

The goal is to get the seat. She’s going to get the seat. I see no value in Booker’s corny performance outside of for people who sit around watching MSNBC all day.

 

[get these nets]

The goal is to get the seat. She’s going to get the seat. I see no value in Booker’s corny performance outside of for people who sit around watching MSNBC all day.

I think it is noteworthy that this will be the first time that there are AA Senators voting for an AA Supreme Court Justice nominee. Not an insignificant moment.

Also In light of the ongoing racial reckoning in America, and March being Women's History Month, there's no way he would have not given her that recognition and praise....at that moment.

Also, in clown quarters/maga land, the usual idiots threw raw meat to their audiences by trying to undermine Judge Ketanji's credentials and experience. Sen. Booker defending/validating her was indirectly telling the peanut gallery to STFU.

 

[OfTheCross]

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Corey Booker been a real one through this whole hearing the past couple days

I dont know much about breh other than his failed run in the primaries last cycle and he from NJ and he was knocking down Rosario but they should put some power behind him and push. He got that young energy that the dems need

Ppl like Cory Bush and Kamala need to be nowhere near politics

Uncharasmatic, obviously phony ppl

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Twitter got me worried lowkey

 

[Ku$h Parker]

think it is noteworthy that this will be the first time that there are AA Senators voting for an AA Supreme Court Justice nominee. Not an insignificant moment.

Booker? of Course
Uncle Tim Scott?