It was George HW Bush that gave us Thomas…fyi, and Democrats controlled the Senate at the time
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Yes, I remember that vividly. GHW Bush was a rotten president. I still don’t think we know the whole story there. We do know there were at least two other witnesses who had comparable stories as Anita Hill. At the time I suspected some kind of blackmail.
That was also after a big turning point on how the political parties approached the SCOTUS after the Bork nomination went down. From then on, Republicans always viewed the court through a political lens. The Democrats didn’t until the last couple of years, but Republicans had several decades advantage, and we are now seeing those seeds they planted way back growing to maturity (more like noxious weeds)
All helped by a proportion of progressives; those who helped torpedo Hubert Humphrey’s campaign - giving us Nixon* and four Supreme Court appointments; the 2.7 million white people born and raised in comfort who swallowed Ralph Nader’s lies of their being no difference between Bush the Lesser and Gore - giving Bush the Lesser the presidency and two Supreme Court appointees; the Berners who wouldn’t vote for the email lady and those who voted for Putin stooge Jill Stein, giving us Trump.
Stopping Bork was a great victory. What an utter pig.
*One estimation of the Nixon/Kissinger body count, world-wide: 5.5 million.
Actually…Nixon was the last Republican president that didn’t appoint overtly partisan justices. In fact, his picks often went against his own policies and after the Warren Court many of his appointees held the line after one of the most liberal courts in history. It was Reagan (who it seems so often is the root of all evil) who started appointing partisans and only appointed O’Connor under pressure to appoint a woman. You can dislike Nixon for a lot of things, but his SCOTUS nominees would be way down near the bottom of the list
Actually…William Rehnquist was no one’s definition of a moderate. Nor was Nor was Warren Burger. And Nixon tried to give us Clement Haynsworth and Harold Carswell.
So what’s your estimation of the Nixon/Kissinger body count?
That it has very little to do with his SCOTUS nominees.
It does, however, have everything to do with the character and legacy of Richard Millhouse Nixon.
…but that wasn’t what I thought we were talking about. I would put Nixon/Kissinger pretty high up on the list of things to hate about Nixon.
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Yes. My overall point was that if fewer people on the progressive side made perfect the enemy of good (Humphrey, Gore, Hillary Clinton) we would have an entirely different situation with the Supreme Court.
When the late, great civil libertarian Nat Hentoff wrote his mea culpa in the late-70s, on his refusal to support Humphrey a decade earlier, the headline subtitle in the Village Voice read, “I didn’t think about the Supreme Court.”
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The Green Party wins again!
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And every single far left moron whose “principles” were so personally important that they couldn’t soil themselves by voting for HRC in 2016 - who went and voted for Jill Stein or wrote in Bernie Sanders - who lived in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan (where the total of people who did either of these things was higher than the Trump margin of victory) can look in the mirror and see WHO DID THIS. YOU FUCKWITS DID IT!!!
It’s not the first time the fuckwits of the far left have given victory to the far right. The same thing happened in 1932 in Germany, when the Communists campaigned against the Social Democrats as “social fascists” and claimed a Nazi victory would “speed the revolution” (I lost count of the morons like Susan Sarandon using those exact words in 2016). We all know how that turned out then, and we all know now how it turned out here.
This times 1,000. And those far left morons (or morans) - virtually all white, virtually all born and raised in comfort. No poor whites, not many Blacks. All winners of the Susan Sarandon White Privilege Butt Hurt Awards (h/t to the TPM poster who coined this award)
Be sure to insert “Putin stooge,” “Putin asset” or “Russian traitor” in front of the name Jill Stein.
Be aware at this site we still have a contingent of Ralph Nader apologists.