Biden’s Nom For DOJ Civil Rights Head Faces Contentious Confirmation Hearing | Talking Points Memo

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#60

“Grassley devoted a significant chunk of his question to complaining that when Republicans oppose judicial nominees who are women are minorities, they’re accused of sexism and racism. But when Democrats opposed Trump judicial nominees who were women or minorities, they faced no such criticism, in Grassley’s retelling.”

LOL. Again, the GQP Trump KKKult needs to get it through their idiot heads: NOBODY. IS. FOOLED.

The GQP is treated as racist because its racism is the most transparent thing in and about Washington DC. Everyone sees it. Nobody is fooled by the pretextual excuses and raving lunatic denials, the practice of dogwhistling or policy positions thinly clothed in the rhetoric of fiscal responsibility, “freedom” or economic ideology.

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#61

John Cornyn saw “Duck Soup” the other night on television and will most certainly ask any nominee for a Pentagon position if Freedonia still has diplomatic relations with Sylvania.

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#62

That answer wasn’t good enough for Blackburn, who said she feared that Clarke would be the “lead warrior” in what she described as a federal government effort to trample over state and local election rules.

Which should defer to reactionary demands (‘guidelines’) and congressional legislative proposals since who, after all, has more concern for states’ rights than the GOP?

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#63

I think @txlawyer posted the statute in good time after the “accident” excuse was unleashed and it really does fit. Her negligence cannot go unanswered, and maybe that’s unfortunate because perhaps there is some element of it actually being an “accident”. Maybe she’s actually a good cop trying to do a good job all her career, but she was charged with a higher duty of competence in protecting the public’s safety, including Daunte’s, and she breached that duty. I suspect she’ll plead and get a light 1-2 year sentence and parole…and she’ll serve maybe 50% of it behind bars based on good behavior.
Ultimately, it strikes me as a sad case all around really.

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#64

Not the Bee - HAHA

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#65

I’m here for all your Minnesota* criminal law** needs.


*Not actually licensed to practice in Minnesota.
**Don’t do much criminal law in real life

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#66

Yep, that’s my Senator, Marsha “Savior Of The Incandescent Lightbulb” Blackburn.

The complexion and IQ of a loaf of Wonder Bread.

And BTW, a lot of the MAGA here in our 14th Century Volunteer State are really upset about the new printing thingie that guy Gutenberg just invented. It might make certain people a little “uppity” if they get access to information.

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#67

Former officer Potter is being charged with manslaughter, it seems.

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#68

Cruz is that wannabe “cool” kid who
in a packed school assembly -
shouts out “DICK”
because he thinks it will make him popular
with all those kids that he thinks are “cool”.

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#69

He believed it was a documentary.

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#70

I appreciate many of your posts. Thank you.

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#71

Nobody’s taking that bet.

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#72

While we in the comments have had many animated (and well argued on both sides) debates about the political implications of “Defund the Police” as a progressive slogan, it is starting to become as inneffectual an attack line for Repubs as “socialism”, “political correctness”, or “cancel culture”. If you trot out the same phrase to describe anything proposed by Democrats, the phrase quickly becomes a parody and just more cultural background noise.

Meanwhile progressives, outside the spotlights, can continue the actual work of reinventing policing to make it a system that protects and serves all communities.

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#73

Yeah second degree.

@txlawyer - what do the Minnesota statues say about the difference between 1st and 2d degree manslaughter?

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#74

Totally O/T but WTH
For three days, Weaver, a Black soldier in the Maryland National Guard, hauled the chain – running, falling behind under the burden, being hectored by instructors. They claimed it would remind him to follow the chain of command.

‘Most humiliating punishment imaginable’: Black National Guardsman allegedly forced to wear heavy chain | USA TODAY SUN

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#75

Yeah, that thinking thing is not really in their wheelhouse. They believe the problem is that for some reason the President is nominating the ‘wrong’ kind of people and it’s soooooo annoying. Why does he do that? And even worse, behind closed doors the GOP has to admit that these are competent, qualified people and that’s what really scares them. They’re ‘not racist’ as long as that continues to mean that they are the ones who get to decide who, what and where happens.

#76

I looked up the statutes. In second degree they list causing death by negligence which I assume is the charge here.

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#77

The first degree manslaughter statute is kind of a grab-bag – intent to kill under heat of passion, unintentional killing during the commission of a gross misdemeanor involving the use of force, giving or selling a controlled substance, etc. Second degree includes the culpable negligence standard, as well as shooting someone you negligently thought was a deer, letting your dangerous dog run loose, and a couple others.

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#78

[Blackburn] described as a federal government effort to trample over state and local election rules.

That was Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

We don’t need laws designed – designed – to inconvenience voters in order to protect elections from fraud that doesn’t occur.

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#79

Second degree includes the culpable negligence standard, as well as shooting someone you negligently thought was a deer, letting your dangerous dog run loose, and a couple others.
Such as running over a person and claiming you hit a deer???
Asking for a friend

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