As did I, which begs the question: Was Uncle Thomas befuddled by television?
I do not recall being befuddled by television when the Senate confirmed his dumb ass.
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Sheldon Whitehouse senate address:
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Maybe he was referring to people using microfiche to look up his history and asking questions informed by same. He was never the swiftest spoon in the drawer.
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Nah. He just needed an adjective to modify “lynching” so he could say the word but claim it was a metaphor. Get people to take him seriously but not literally, sort of thing.
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This is the stench that Sotomayor talked about.
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Sonia Sotomayer and George Soros should publicly replicate the Thomas - Crow relationship. Bring reporters.
Thomas’ apologists are conveniently looking away. Perhaps a.little theater will catch their attention (or maybe flip their kids’ votes)…
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“Hi-Tech Lynching” were powerful words at the time. They have resonated now for nearly a quarter of a century.
“Hi-Tech Lynching” like “deep state” is meant to mean some menace behind a curtain.
Big Money spends big money creating new meanings out of phrases. Lying to take and hold power is expensive.
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Rallying around a visibly corrupt justice isn’t ‘shooting themselves in the ass’? Interesting premise.
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That’s fine. When the number gets up to 17 or so, it will be extremely hard to maintain a reliable majority of extremists for every partisan issue to come before before the court. 19 or 21 would be even better.
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passing ethics reforms at the Supreme Court, expanding the number of sitting justices, and enacting term limits.
I’m with her.
Yes, term limits for every government job. “Till death” is a nice sentiment for marriage, and a little country of 6 million people in 16 states with a life expectancy of 35 years riding horses for transportation.
Today, it’s an open door to corruption.
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I dunno, @thebishop–THAT looks pretty high tech compared to the IBM punchcards I learned to program FORTRAN with!?! 
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Agreed. Once before the SCOTUS holds court in a stadium, it’ll be more representative of the nation as a whole than the House of Representatives!?!
If only Cori knew someone in the House to submit that for her. 
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Yes, then we could have a sitting bench of 13 or 15 selected at random from the pool, which would give us a year round court instead of one that fucks off for four months every summer. Less shadow docketing and punting cases past the next election or expiration of term of congress.
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