Unlikely bedfellows congregated on Zoom Tuesday to sing the praises of Vanita Gupta, President Joe Biden’s nominee for associate attorney general, amid a right-wing campaign to paint her as radical.
[“Senator Coons, your colleagues that are using law enforcement and her positions on law enforcement as an excuse to cast aspersions and stop her nomination — I can just say we are beyond offended,” he added, addressing the lawmaker who was also on the call to support Gupta. ]
Check…The GOP is really beyond offensive…
I find this interesting on today of all days that in another sphere of Congress’ duties they want to know why intelligence reports were ignored over the groups coming to DC for 01/06 vs a former administration official that served well in her position as the head of DoJ division, isn’t suitable to serve in a position the next level up.
It doesn’t matter how much praise the chief of police in Houston shower her with, it’s the fact that she led the Civil Rights division in the DoJ. I’m going go out on a limb and declare that this division is one that if Trump had won a second term he would have gotten rid of, or tried to get rid of.
I am totally in support of Ms. Gupta.
Most of her critics are beneath contempt.
(I should add that Team Biden did well to nominate her.)
Or at least sidelined further.
I think you’re right.
Maybe used it to defend baker’s whose “sincerely held religious beliefs” were under attack because they chose not to bake a wedding cake for same sex couple.
It seems a number of GOPers see a diverse life experience, extensive credentials, an openness to considering innovative policy options, and a perceived excess of melanin in the skin to be disqualifying for Federal appointment. . . . particularly when these qualities are possessed by a woman.
This is now the fourth person of color whose nomination the GOP is opposing and also the third woman of color. They haven’t done this to any white nominees. This is why Team Biden isn’t backing down Tanden’s nomination. It’s not about Tanden. It’s much bigger than that.
So when is Senator Cotton going to acknowledge that the American Relief Act he opposes provides more funding to the police?
I think we can all safely say that uniform Republican’s opposition to her nomination was assured the minute it was duly noted that she had “a perceived excess of melanin in the skin” which in turn was thus deemed “to be disqualifying for Federal appointment.” Republicans have had their standards, at least since about the time Ronald Reagan (pronouced Ray-gun) kicked off his 1980 Presidential Campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi. (Unless you believe in coincidences, in which case I very much would like to sell you an imaginary unicorn I happen to own.)
Once again, Tom Cotton reveals himself to be both hyper-partisan and ignorant as all get out.
Shifting funding to other groups (e.g. psych counselors) frees up the police to, get this, do police work!
Said counselors generally need a pittance compared to the cost of a responding officer and quite often have much better outcomes than we’ve seen from recent encounters between the police and disturbed people with mental issues even in the last year.
To equate this approach with ‘defunding’ the police is both absurd and disingenuous.
It as though casting aspirsions on the CHARACTER of the nominees overshadows the service and acommplishments of long time civil servants.Anyone who supported the Trump phony line of " acting" whatevers during his ongoing carnival of a Cabinet should have their vote withheld due to hypocrisy beyond the pale…
Nimrata Nikki Haley was born in South Carolina to immigrant parents from India. Are her presidential aspirations DIW or will she simply be another poster child for GOP hypocrisy?
The GOP Senators are having a great deal of difficulty with the contrasts between Biden’s choices and Trump’s ass-kissing, obeisant, incompetent, self-serving, and nearly all lily-white “cabinet.”
Unless you slavishly toe the line and achieve token status so they can point to you as a reason why they aren’t racist. “See, I’m friends with Dr. Ben Carson and Governors Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal. So I can’t be racist.”
This is a time when our local law enforcement agencies need additional resources, not fewer.
Does that mean it’s time (a) for local voters to increase their taxes to cover the cost of local law enforcement, or (b) for local opponents of the federal government to demand the federal government give them more money to cover local costs, or (c) for Tom Cotton to run at the mouth pandering to his willfully ignorant constituency?
They hate him too.
Vanita Gupta‘s support runs the breadth and width from civil rights groups to the major police organizations. Her opponents are a bunch of retrograde golden statue worshiping reactionaries and include the disgraced Reagan era attorney general Ed Meese. It’s easy to see who’s on reformists side of these issues.
Over thirty years ago I had a grad school public administration professor whose day job was advising and reforming police departments. Tackling issues like hiring the mental health and domestic violence professionals instead of the less effective and potentially more lethal things like hiring extra cops.
O/T, but good news.
“This country will have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end of May. … That’s progress,” Biden said at the White House.
