Your briefing on developments in the Supreme Court confirmation battle.
President Joe Biden has begun the niceties associated with selecting his Supreme Court nominee, meeting with key senators to hear their priorities and ask for any input.
Full steam ahead. Joe.
Or for the GQP, full scream ahead.
“I had a chance to tell him that I want somebody that’s going to interpret law not make law, that checks and balances the government, in a fair and deliberative process,”
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the committee’s ranking member, added.
Thune looks really uncomfortable as this question is being asked. Video at tweet. And McConnell was not asked about quotas. The question was very direct and just a guess that the answer is zero.
TPM, let’s just not cover what the anti-democracy assholes are saying about this, ok? Don’t give them the pixels.
"Dan Cameron is my actual son." In 5, 4, 3, 2
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) Tuesday stood by his claim that Biden’s nominee would be a “beneficiary” of a “quota” similar to affirmative action.
Says the guy who’s benefitted his entire life from Mississippi’s Pink quota.
Tomorrow, after checking, he’ll note that he has plenty of objectively white males on staff who identify as black females, and totally pwn the pronoun-libtards.
Fur sure.
‘Cecil’: “he and i cried about Rihanna Taylor’s death. Then his uncle Rand joined us in prayer and tears.”
Or not. He’s not smart enough to pull something sneaky like that.
Yeah, much more likely to slide into the default “All Lives Matter” diatribe.
Now that’s a gotcha question worth asking!
OT but I cannot help myself. This seems to be in the category of might be sketchy or bribery even or tampering with a witness I dunno.
He indicated that Biden still, at least for now, intends to name the nominee by the end of February.
I would highly recommend Biden speed up his nomination in light of recent news:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/democratic-senator-ben-lujan-hospitalized-for-stroke
Uh oh now the bathroom wars will start within the Russell Senate Office building.
Pink and fleshy.
Whaaaaa? You mean simply picking a pro corp anti worker selection wont be enough for Republicans?
Simply shocking.