Vanita Gupta, the high-profile civil rights advocate who’s been nominated for the number three position at the Justice Department, got one step closer to Senate confirmation Thursday amid heavy pushback from conservative activists.
Ram it through!
No matter how many as qualified if not better qualified persons of color you could have chosen.
Repubs need something apparently partisan to complain about anyway, right?
Biden is entitled to fill these positions. He is the President. She is more than qualified. Confirm her! The previous president had unqualified nominees confirmed including an internet troll.
Based on how the GOP performed during the Trump regime, it isn’t clear that their senators have any standards that they apply to nominees, other than how well they spout wingnut talking points fed to them by Fox.
My view also.
Besides the fact that Ms. Gupta is eminently qualified for the job she was nominated for, it would be rather refreshing to see someone confirmed who isn’t whiter than Johnny and Edgar Winter.
The group and its allies tried to paint Gupta as an anti-cop radical, despite the fact that her nomination has gotten the support of several law enforcement organizations, including a major police union that endorsed former President Trump.
It’s bad faith and turtles all the way down
I’m the type that has to check everything. You’re right:
Vanita Gupta, a former Justice Department civil rights chief, had received endorsements from the country’s leading law enforcement organizations — something of a surprise for a liberal lawyer who has made a career of ferreting out wrongdoing by police. But during her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Cotton (R-Ark.) raised the possibility — but offered no evidence — that the groups had been coerced into lending her their support.
“I was kind of shocked by it,” said Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police. “If he really suspects that, then he doesn’t really know the law enforcement organizations as well as he thinks he does, and he certainly doesn’t know Vanita Gupta as well as I know her.”
I only inserted the quotes because some will run into a paywall at the WP
Link
She could snag a few more votes if she says she likes beer.
Well well Well When you have lost Pat Robinson
Police just shot and killed a 13 year old
Chicago is releasing bodycam video of the police killing of #AdamToledo, who was a 13-year-old boy.
— AJ+ (@ajplus) April 15, 2021
Police claim there was an "armed confrontation" and shot him in the chest. The mayor says she saw "no evidence whatsoever" that Toledo shot at police.
(Photo: Elizabeth Toledo) pic.twitter.com/RuqToA9z5X
slower than molasses in winter in the Yukon. by design, of course.
Disturbing bodycam video released Thursday after public outcry over the police shooting of a 13-year-old boy shows the youth appearing to drop a handgun and begin raising his hands less than a second before an officer fires his gun and kills him.
A still frame taken from Officer Eric Stillman’s jumpy nighttime body camera footage shows that Adam Toledo wasn’t holding anything and had his hands up when Stillman shot him once in the chest about 3 a.m. on March 29. Police, who were responding to reports of shots fired in the area, say the teen had a handgun on him before the shooting. And Stillman’s footage shows him shining a light on a handgun on the ground near Toledo after he shot him.