The New York Times’ legal columnist, Linda Greenhouse, writes How Low Will Senate Republicans Go on Ketanji Brown Jackson? When Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination reaches the Senate floor soon, every Republican who votes against her confirmation will be complicit in the abuse that the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee heaped on … Read more
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has already been confirmed three times for the federal judiciary by a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has more trial court experience than any sitting Supreme Court justice and more than any justice since Edward Sanford, who was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1923. Judge … Read more
Echoes of Tea Party candidate Todd Akin, the 2012 Republican Senate nominee from Missouri, who provoked ire across the political spectrum by saying that in instances of what he called “legitimate rape,” women’s bodies somehow blocked an unwanted pregnancy. Senate Candidate Provokes Ire With ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment. A decade later, Republican MAGA candidates have only grown … Read more
Update to GQP Anti-Anti-Racism Bill To Impose Not Teaching Any History Which Makes A White Snowflake ‘Feel Discomfort’. Rep. Michelle Udall, R-Mesa, is a truly pathetic individual. Definitely not cut from the same stock as Stewart and Morris Udall. She besmmirches the family name and reputation. She should be ashamed. And scorned. This GQP “snowflake” doubles-down … Read more
Betsy Levin at Vanity Fair framed the issue perfectly: Florida Advances Bill That Would Ban Making White People Feel Bad About Racism, And No, That’s Not A Joke: Quick question for the group: Despite constantly claiming liberals are easily “triggered” “snowflakes,” are Republicans actually the most ridiculously sensitive people on earth? So much so that … Read more