The White House Expected to Name Supreme Court Nominee Soon
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Washington is abuzz this morning with rumors that President Joe Biden will name his nominee, an announcement that is expected as soon as today. As previously discussed, President Biden announced that he would only consider Black, female candidates — threshold criteria overwhelmingly opposed by the public. The pledge was as unnecessary as it was unfair. The three short listers — each with impressive backgrounds — are Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal appeals judge; Judge J. Michelle Childs, a federal judge in South Carolina; and Leondra Kruger, a justice on the California Supreme Court. I have previously said that Judge Brown Jackson remains the frontrunner for the position.
The nomination would seek to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court for the first time in its 233-year history.
Biden recently interviewed all three candidates for the job.
Liberal groups have mounted a campaign against Childs for being too moderate and "tough-on-crime." This concerted opposition campaign, including the Bernie Sanders-aligned Our Revolution group, has also painted Childs as anti-union and pro-employer. President Biden has been criticized for yielding to the far left on nominations in the past.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) has added his voice that the nomination should be "very expeditious." What Democrats may be fearing the most is the type of nomination practices that they employed in the last three confirmations, including the use of the "Barrett Rule."
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Next will be qualifications and ideology.
And it's official..............
It's already been announced. Queue the right-wing partisan outrage machine!
But not on NT, until now.
It's called a NEWS story!
We expected a liberal for a liberal, not a far left radical who has represented Guantanamo detainees. Hopefully her past personal sexual and drinking history will be thoroughly investigated going back at least 35 years
Yeah, if any crooked porn lawyer claims she led a rape gang in high school, it's reason enough to find another candidate because it might be true.
Should we be like the left and find somebody out there willing to claim she raped him?
Should we be like the left and find somebody out there willing to claim she raped him?
It certainly would be a case of what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, given the last 35 years of Democratic histrionics, but the conduct of the Democrats at the Kavanaugh hearing was a low point in our democracy and to keep the cycle going would do too much damage.
Expose her ideas, her inability to write clearly and her bias and vote accordingly, but I'd hope Republicans won't stoop to acting like Sheldon Whitehouse and snoop through high school yearbooks looking for secret rape codes.
Nobody cares about what nominees did as children, but we should all care about false accusations made only to defeat a nominee.
They love those stories of Kavanaugh's boyhood friends:
“I’m a keg-is-half-full kinda guy,” Kavanaugh explained, sticking up for his friends “P.J., and Squi, and Handsy Hank, and Gang-Bang Greg, which you know the liberal media is gonna find some way to spin.”
www.theatlantic.com
I'll always miss P.J. and Squi, Handsy Hank and Gang-Bang Greg, Lol....When they roll out the BS, they pull out all the stops!
Of course, but how do we convince liberals of that fact?
I have an idea, but I'm not going to tell anyone.
So he chose the far left nut instead of the regular liberal who would have had built in Republican support.
no surprise. Biden always panders to the far left.
Those nice low poll numbers of his guarantee that Senate Republicans will ask real questions when she gets there.
There are a host of world-class law schools in this country yet short listers tend to come from an even shorter list of law schools. Indeed, it is largely a list of two schools. This is not to say that Childs was rejected on that basis. The campaign against her from the left as too moderate was likely key.
The Barrett Rule?
Exactly and that was the definitive article, which you nicely provided, without saying too much.
Thank you for both.
Odd they announced it on a Friday, which is when bad news gets announced. Either he really needs to distract from Ukraine, or he wanted minimize her exposure.
Like the coming CDC announcement, all on a Friday, conveniently just before the State of the Union address
Here is the comment that no Senator will likely ask about, but we should all keep in mind:
Ah-HA!
No surprise to that was written against Trump. You know her view of executive power will remarkably change when Biden's interests are at stake.
We know the drill. We saw firsthand how Harvard Law Professor Tribe can change his position depending on who it is. We have seen the gaslighting personally, up close!.