I've never seen a turtle move so fast on an issue before. That should be the message to everyone out there suffering - ESPECIALLY those living in Kentucky. If you have been dealt with death or hardship, look at the lack of effort and energy the Senate Majority Leader has put forth on this pandemic. But literally, hours when a justice passes away, suddenly, this is his highest priority. Not the lives of millions dealing with COVID, but sitting a judge ASAP.
So much for "All Lives Matter"... Which by the way, we all knew was just BS anyways.
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Graham will just keep begging people on Fox News for more money. Because he's just thatt pathetic.
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I can’t say I know enough about her rulings to compare them off the top of my head. My point about the rapid delegitimization of the court was because of a) the process, hypocritically stuffing a nominee into the court in record time, and b) the increased ideological distance between the institution and the public- what @GreenGoldSharpie was saying.
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-Louis Brandeis
Some notes about here
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN26G37S
In a 1998 Marquette Law Review article she co-wrote exploring the effect of the Catholic church’s teachings on federal jurists, Ms Coney Barrett said the church’s views on prohibiting abortion and euthanasia are “absolute” because they “take away innocent life.
US, get your fucking act together, and start throwing out religioin into the bin of history it belongs.
Forgive my english, as i'm not a native speaker
Wow she's a serious religious nutjob. I'm sure republicans are going to vote her through anyways, but holy shit.
The GOP is broken.
That's interesting because she said in her Circuit Court confirmation (IIRC) that a person's personal religious beliefs should not impede on jurist rulings. And if they do...the jurist should recuse themselves.
Perhaps there are some legitimate fights to be had against her confirmation. I wonder if Graham and McTurtle are going to let that happen.
I am a bit divided in this, I am thinking democrats perhaps should consider boycotting the entire thing altogether. The right has already telegraphed their attacks that's it's all religious discrimination instead focus the entire thing on how she is the end of the ACA, abortion rights and all that. The democrats in congress are usually pretty bad at questioning to begin with last thing they need is someone's line being used against Biden.
New light is being shed on Barrett's Catholic group People of Praise.
The 48-year-old appellate court judge has said she is a “faithful Catholic” but that her religious beliefs would not “bear in the discharge of my duties as a judge”.
At the same time, the Louisiana native and Notre Dame Law graduate, a favorite among Trump’s evangelical Christian base, has said legal careers ought not to be seen as means of gaining satisfaction, prestige or money, but rather “as a means to the end of serving God”.Perhaps the group does have some commonalities with The Handmaid's Tale. Now I'm wondering where the name Handmaid originated for the book/series.People of Praise is headed by an all-male board of governors described as its “highest authority”.
None. Scalia was an awful justice too, and made shit up all the time on the bench.
He just wrote it beautifully, and in legalistic circles, so people were like "Oh, he's okay." He was not okay. He flouted the norms of jurisprudence regularly. The few times he agreed with what could broadly be considered justice were to try and create legal precedence for more of his fringe opinions.
Scalia may have passed muster in the 80s......Scalia v. 2.0 is unacceptable in 2020.
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Gorsuch is not "run of the mill" either. Let's stop normalizing these people's fringe views. He's a hard right conservative, just like Thomas and Alito, and the man he replaced, Scalia. Dude sides with the liberals on ONE CASE and everyone's like "Oh, he must not be that bad."
I think one thing, and only one thing, should be pointed out about ACB's religious views, and I say this as a confirmed Catholic who spent 20 years in Catholic schools, all the way through law school: Her "cult" of evangelicized Catholics believe women are subservient to their husbands, and that they MUST take instruction from their husbands, who are the head of their household.
So what's to prevent her husband from being a shadow justice? If he tells her she should rule one way on a decision, mustn't she rule that way?
That should be immediately disqualifying, and yet, if Democrats bring it up in her nomination hearing, the Republicans will be screaming "Religious persecution!!!!" despite the right's A) traditional hatred of Catholics coming from Evangelicals, B) our Presidential candidate being Catholic, and C) our Speaker of the House being Catholic.
Just what we need, more religion in our government. Freedom of religion should mean freedom from religion as well.
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-Louis Brandeis
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-Louis Brandeis