The Senate Judiciary Committee is meeting Monday to vote on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. While Jackson has found Republican support elsewhere in the form of Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), the committee Republicans seem disinclined to vote for her, setting up a potential tie. Democrats would be able to circumvent a tie with a “motion to discharge,” dislodging her nomination to the full Senate after a few hours of debate. There, it seems certain that she’ll ultimately be confirmed.
The “thing” that happened to Bork was that he was an ideological extremist whose expressly stated positions were genuinely offensive to nearly all the Democrats and also a substantial number of Republicans, with the result being that the Senate rejected his confirmation 58-42, following which President Reagan sent up a different nominee who got confirmed to the seat despite being extremely conservative himself.
They’re perpetually butthurt over Bork because they think the standard is that all Republican nominees must ipso facto be confirmed while they withhold the absolute prerogative to cancel any Democratic nominee as they see fit.
Leahy reminded the crowd that — Bork lost a floor vote! If the six Republicans who voted against him had gone the other way, he would have been confirmed.
I guess the GOP felt they hadn’t embarrassed themselves enough with the KBJ hearings that they are back with another round. Happy to get into the official Congressional records their uniform opposition to the first Black woman Justice. It’ll help in the future when they try to gaslight about this era.
We’d all be having more fun this morning if these clowns had remained in one of their drug-fueled orgies rather than showing up to spout the same bullshit over and over.
I am so, so, so tired of lawyers being attacked for being defense attorneys and judges being attacked for showing anything less than “hang 'em high” decisions when sentencing. It is stupid, it is tiresome, and it works all too often. Every politician who takes this approach and ever gets on the wrong side of the law should have a drunken defense attorney and a judge who always gives the absolute maximum for any crime. It is funny how quickly righteous punishment becomes persecution when it happens to right wingers.
With respect to the immigration case they’re pushing, has anyone else noticed that Republicans believe that executive branch agencies should have no power at all when they’re regulating something like air or water pollution, but all the power in the world when they’re deporting people?
