The evenly-split Senate Judiciary Committee came to a tie vote Monday on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, though she’s still securely on the path to confirmation.
The most important revelations of the hearing came not from the Republicans hectoring Jackson on her record, but from those who sent up test balloons about which precedents they’d like the heavily conservative bench to take aim at next. The seemingly imminent overturning of Roe v. Wade hung over their comments about the right to same-sex marriage, access to birth control and even the legality of interracial marriage being wrongly protected by the Supreme Court.
Something about not being able to un-ring that freedom bell comes to mind.
"SAVE AMERICA" (from Trumpers…)
“Democrats play chess while Republicans eat the pieces.”
With this, I think it’s safe to say that most of us here will never again see a functioning Senate. I don’t know why I’m surprised by this outcome, but it certainly points to the eventuality that the Senate is irretrievably and irrevocably broken beyond all repair.
I guess what has happened in Ukraine does not sober these people–that invasion is entirely the product of one man/one party autocratic rule and its insulation from all accountability for its actions. That is where they are headed with all obstruction, all the time. I don’t see how you could miss this lesson…unless, of course, you yourself are a devotee of Putinism. It’s dreadful to think we have even a few of those in our midst.
Not a single Republican vote. Now, that’s real pornography.
Probably because those that won’t see what’s happening, won’t sober up, are the ones who would just love the same thing in Ukraine to happen to NYC and other blue strongholds. There’s no lesson to learn here for them, except for (when they do it here), they’re successful.
That’s a really dispiriting thought, but I have no doubt about their wishes vis a vis the blue states.
Make the pieces out of Ex-Lax then.
If Judge Jackson had lost and not tied in the vote would that have ended her nomination?
Someone help me out here…
With a hemlock cocktail chaser.
What and have Republicans spewing more of their platform?
Republicans: making sure we stay on the road to becoming Russia.
One can only imagine the howls if the tables were turned and the Democrats routinely opposed every nomination made by the GQP. As always, IOKIYAAR applies.
Remind me again why this takes at least 1 Republican vote?
Edit: oh dear, poor Hodges, Kaneaster (D-AR)
A dem of the judiciary committee would have had to vote against her and that wouldn’t have boded well.
Its already gone. People are just in denial. By the time people are willing to admit it, it’ll be too late to form the correct response.
Fascist Cookie Monsters.
Typical Repugnant’s…
Don’t Say Yea!