Judge became Justice Thursday as the Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1412160
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1412160
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Sometimes we get it right.
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Now we need five more just like her.
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The Southern Gentleman was not properly dressed?
Vapors!!!
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The disrespect from the Republicans surprises even me.
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It’s a good day!
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Sorry, I deleted that. It’s a time for joy and celebration. My fault
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Mr. Samuel L. Jackson’s line in “A Time to Kill” is the only perspective I need for these rotten sonsofbitches: “Yes, they deserve to die, and I hope they burn in hell!”
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You got that right. Lindsey’s lack of a tie was 100% an act of disrespect, and no one should have any illusions to the contrary.
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Yay! Let’s celebrate today. Tomorrow, let’s ask the grim reaper to pay some visits…
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I have this inane fantasy wherein, now that KBJ is confirmed, Breyer rescinds his retirement, creating a de facto 10-member court (with 5-5 deadlocks, if any of Roberts’ theater is real).
Unworkable for myriad reasons, I’m quite sure, but it’s fun to envision going on the offensive with some outrageous convention-busting occasionally…
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“On this vote, the yays are 53. The nays are 47 and this nomination is confirmed,”
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Yeah, I sure wish a couple of fits of apoplexy, an infarction or two, and maybe a handful of strokes on a few of the vilest of the racist asssholes.
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Yay!
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Deo gratias.
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“Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law,” thundered Justice John Marshall Harlan, the sole dissenter in Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld state-sanctioned segregation.
It would take 58 years for the Court to officially embrace his view in Brown v. Board of Education.
I’m not being facetious when I suspect that – given a chance today – five of the current justices would vote to overturn Brown.
And Obergefell.
And Griswold.
And Loving.
(And – irony not only being dead, but dismembered, mixed in concrete, and buried under the end zone of Giants Stadium – Thomas would be one of them!)
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And there’s old Concerned Susie…voting to confirm when her vote isn’t needed, just to show how “bipartisan” she can be.
Fuck her.
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Irony is holding hands in a deceased lovers’ embrace with Jimmy Hoffa.
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(I like the extra “s” you added, there.)
Anyway, I want to go back to the good old days, back when “vile racist asshole” was an insult, and not a campaign slogan/qualification for candidacy.
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Often, I suspect irony is not dead, but rather immortal, and laughing at us all behind our backs, the bastard.
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