Ladies and gentlemen, we have a schedule.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a four-day marathon of hearings, the brunt of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation process.
Give them some time. I am quite certain they will come up with some reasons, I mean come on, she was nominated to the court by a Democrat, for most GOP Senators this is enough of a reason, they’re just afraid to say it out loud.
She’s not going to change the ideological balance, so she doesn’t matter. Did Cornyn just say that out loud?
The quiet part: Ketanji Brown Jackson will radically increase the number of black women on the Court and shift the gender balance even further away from the Constitution’s original intent of an all male Court.
I wonder if any Republican on the committee will outright rebuff meeting with her?
The Four-Day Supreme Court Confirmation Gauntlet
And so begins the season where Rethugliklans will, in effect, recite their well-rehearsed mantra: If my donors don’t own you, we don’t want you.
Unless Manchinema decide to go full anti-Democrat, the outcome is determined. She’s a good Judge who already passed muster in front of the Senate.
The only question is how many Republicans will embarrass themselves with blatantly racist questions during the confirmation process.
Depends on if the confirmation hearings are televised.
Here is what Senator Cornyn said: “I also think, given the fact that she’s not going to change the balance, ideological balance, on the court, I think people will be respectful and they’ll do their due diligence and ask questions…”
Here is what he meant: “I also think, if in fact she would change the balance, ideological balance, on the court, I think people would be TOTALLY disrespectful of her and they would throw any shit they could manufacture out of the dirtiest right wing toilets they could find to delegitimizie her nomination under the cover of ‘Just asking questions’…”
Its a SCOTUS nomination, I would be surprised if they weren’t televised (at least part of it).
Then you can probably count on some grandstanding and some totally ridiculous things being said.
I think she’s going to make it, but that assumes that (1) Sen. Ben Ray Lujan is able to get out of convalescing from his stroke and being able to vote on the Senate floor (that’s what the rule says–no absentee voting, even if a senator is at death’s door); (2) Mancinema cooperate; and (3) no other Democratic senator succumbs to old age or other infirmities. In other words, I don’t trust one Republican senator to vote for her, once the word spreads among the GQP faithful that she’s a fire-breathing radical Black woman (just look at her hair and her first name!) who’s been nominated as an affirmative-action concession to the BLM movement.
So, Senator Cornyn, what happens if a seat opens up that would change the ideological balance of the Court? Lemme guess, stymie another Democratic President from presenting a nomination? I sometimes wonder what might have happened if Obama had nominated Merrick Garland. I know it would have not proceeded in the Senate, but I would have liked to have seen #moscowmitch explain that to the American people. Or perhaps the formal procedure was followed? Enlighten me…
?? He did nominate Garland. Mitch refused to schedule a hearing.
Thanks, I knew that. “Too close to an election” says the Turtle. Of course that didn’t matter when Ginsburg died.