Your briefing on developments in the Supreme Court confirmation battle.
Mutterings against Judge Michelle Childs, a member of President Joe Biden’s shortlist for the Supreme Court, have started bubbling up from the pro-labor world.
Yah!
Nonsupport for the working class that pays the bills in this country won’t help get out the Democrat vote.
If Childs is passed over for this, she’ll understand. Not sure if Clyburn’s corporate donors will, though.
Here’s another grumble. Biden acting on Clyburn’s “favorite” will reinforce the notion that Biden is beholden to him for getting him through a very, very rough patch when his candidacy could have tanked. At the same time Lindsay has expressed his very strong support for Childs. But that’s today. Tomorrow after a chat with trumpet, who knows?
If we don’t nominate a pro-labor justice, then what hope is there for unions, income inequality, and a fairer playing field?
…her apparent endorsement by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)…
I guess that shoulda been the first tipoff.
You may want to take some antivert to prevent your head from spinning when Republicans make a quick u-turn from they’re all beneficiaries of affirmative action to hey, this one’s great.
This is a nothingberder. She worked for a law firm specializing in businesses, the law firm has corporate clients and she represented them.
Every case has lawyers on both sides of the table, a professional lawyer can do their job without becoming the job.
I mean, if she represented murder defendants, would everyone assume she was a murderer or something?
Whichever side of the table she was on is uninteresting. If people were to be criticizing her rulings since her 2009 appointment by Obama, that would be a different thing entirely. But that they’re reaching back into her days just doing her job probably means they’ve got nothing substantive to critique here.
If Republicans like her I’m a hard hard pass. That’s how we got stuck with Milquetoast Garland.
Clyburn may want to rethink his position if Lindsey Graham backs him. This is a dangerous situation. As always, we all know who Graham’s been backing for four years now.
Wouldn’t read too much into it. It’s quite normal for the Home-State Senators to back people from their State (Doesn’t mean he’ll actually vote for her unless he finds it politically-expedient to do so).
I think we have the game plan for waiting out the ice storm.
OK, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
I’m sure she is extremely qualified. Any candidate put forth by Biden will be as well.
That’s the bottom line. Anything else is chattering from the MSM and the lesser gods.
I didn’t know you got another puppy! Beautiful! So happy for you! Name?
Dashing Spirit Pete. But we call him Dash.
He’s 5 months old now.
Love the name, and I really am happy that you did this again.
Here’s a treat, Dash. You are one lucky dog.
We later got AG Garland, because a key segment of the Democratic Party voting bloc, ‘progressives’, decided to be Kleenex in 2016.
Not all of them. Some of them decided to be recycled toilet paper. More environmentally-friendly. Save the planet and all that.
“supposedly compromising and willing to listen, former President Trump not being frog walked are making a great number of 
angry. Here’s why that’s bad news for President Biden.”
But muh purity tests tho.
- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had to clean up his floor remarks today after he said: “Until 1981, this powerful body, the Supreme Court, was all white men.” Justice Thurgood Marshall was confirmed to the Court in 1967. “Sorry that I misspoke earlier today,” he tweeted. “Of course, I remember the dedication and legal excellence that Thurgood Marshall brought to the Supreme Court.”
I’m imaging the knots a Republican would get himself into to avoid saying “Sorry” about this. It would either be denying he said it at all, or denying Justice Marshall was on the Court before 1981.
While what you say is true, from the American Prospect article:
While some may respond that a lawyer merely serves the client and cannot be held accountable for their client’s sins, as a judge Childs also sports a track record of opposing workers in cases of alleged discrimination. As recently as this year, she dismissed a case where an employee alleged she was sexually harassed, subjected to a hostile work environment, and subsequently fired upon reporting it.
I’m sure her record will be scrutinized and she’ll be given fair opportunity to correct or assuage any misgivings. I would also note she was not forced to take a job working for the interests of management. It was obviously a choice she made.
