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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[luee]

Whatever!

[Hamilton Samuels]

Biden looks stupid for guaranteeing a black woman SCOTUS. Good pols never put their own balls in a vise.

[LarryBnDC]

Biden looks stupid for guaranteeing a black woman SCOTUS. Good pols never put their own balls in a vise.

He does not look stupid to the voting base of the Democratic Party

[Holly Martins]

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/30/2077621/-A-Neo-Nazi-rally-has-taken-place-in-the-suburban-streets-of-Orlando

Ach to the mother fucking tung, bitches.

Gosh, where was DeSantis and his HB1 shiny new anti-riot law when these Nazi cretins were harassing people outside Starbucks and assaulting anyone who talked back?

[Holly Martins]

Biden looks stupid for guaranteeing a black woman SCOTUS. Good pols never put their own balls in a vise.

He campaign promised to act so the Court would look more like America.  So that's what he's doing.  What's the problem?  One aim of SCOTUS which has been stated repeatedly is that its nine jurists embody the spectrum of life experiences amd perspectives that is America.

[kidcarter8]

Biden looks stupid for guaranteeing a black woman SCOTUS. Good pols never put their own balls in a vise.

Why?  All he has to do is follow through.

Now...they had better VETT well - better choose the right one - with no hidden baggage (dont get me wrong - maybe none of them have any - just saying)

I think this all goes fine.  Reagan did it.  Now Joe will as well.

[Hairy Lime]

Biden looks stupid for guaranteeing a black woman SCOTUS. Good pols never put their own balls in a vise.

Nonsense, Forrest. Plenty of highly qualified African American candidates. The Repos criticizing him on this issue would find something wrong with any process he used. No reason for him to pay attention to any of that criticism.

[kidcarter8]

Whisk - the criticism is valid - as it would have been with Reagan (whe he promised a woman and named O'Connor)

If the entirety of the judicial field is not to be considered how is it possible to insist you got the best candidate?

This has nothing to do with if any are "qualified".

Why was Obama not naming a black woman?  No chance at confirmation - is that the only reason?

[kidcarter8]

Just to remind you -  I have zero problem with the process - and will have zero problem with the choice.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Biden looks stupid for guaranteeing a black woman SCOTUS. Good pols never put their own balls in a vise.

He campaign promised to act so the Court would look more like America.  So that's what he's doing.  What's the problem?  One aim of SCOTUS which has been stated repeatedly is that its nine jurists embody the spectrum of life experiences amd perspectives that is America.

The net political effect for Biden will be negative. Up to 76 per cent in some polls say Biden is appointing a black woman(while not giving a whit about anyone else) solely to curry favor with black voters.
In reality that is an insult to blacks.
But if diversity is the goal and only a woman can meet those standards then it would be best to define diversity.
Dr. King had an opinion that it has more to do with things other than the skin color.

Consider the argument put forth by University of Tennessee Law Professor Benjamin Barton in an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal.
Today the court has become increasingly homogeneous. Recent justices have come from remarkably similar background and the reported front-runner, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, would fit right in.

Judge Jackson grew up in a major metropolitan area, and her father was a lawyer. She would be the fifth sitting justice to fit that profile. She earned both her bachelor  and law degrees at Harvard and would be the seventh justice with an Ivy League undergraduate degree and the eighth graduate of Harvard or Yale law school.

She clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer and would be the sixth justice to have served as a Supreme Court clerk. Two of her prospective colleagues, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, likewise succeeded the justices for whom they clerked. After clerking, Judge Jackson worked at an elite Washington law firm focusing on appellate litigation, as did five other current justices. She has served as a federal appellate judge, like every other justice but Elena Kagan, and would be the fourth justice from the District of Columbia Circuit.

She did serve as a federal district judge Sonia Sotomayor is the only current justice with that experience), on the U.S. Sentencing Commission and as a public defender. Yet on the whole, her experiences from Harvard on greatly resemble those of the justices already on the bench.
She is extremely well qualified in the conventional term achievement in elite academic and legal competitions, But is that all that matters?


Professor Barton offers a different view of diversity in choosing the pre-ordained Black Woman.



Mr. Biden may want to look closely at another name reportedly on his short list: Judge J. Michelle Childs.
She is  a product of the Columbia, S.C., public school system who earned a scholarship to the University of South Florida and got her law degree at the University of South Carolina both public institutions. She made partner at a Columbia law firm practicing labor and employment law and has worked in state government and served as a state and federal trial judge.
Both she and Judge Jackson are highly qualified to serve on the court, but in terms of sheer diversity, Judge Childs has an advantage.


In the end, short of unforeseen scandals, real or imagined, Biden will get a black woman as he has promised for over 2 years.

And it will have little if any effect on the midterms.

[LarryBnDC]

Biden looks stupid for guaranteeing a black woman SCOTUS. Good pols never put their own balls in a vise.

He campaign promised to act so the Court would look more like America.  So that's what he's doing.  What's the problem?  One aim of SCOTUS which has been stated repeatedly is that its nine jurists embody the spectrum of life experiences amd perspectives that is America.

The net political effect for Biden will be negative. Up to 76 per cent in some polls say Biden is appointing a black woman(while not giving a whit about anyone else) solely to curry favor with black voters.
In reality that is an insult to blacks.
But if diversity is the goal and only a woman can meet those standards then it would be best to define diversity.
Dr. King had an opinion that it has more to do with things other than the skin color.

Consider the argument put forth by University of Tennessee Law Professor Benjamin Barton in an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal.
Today the court has become increasingly homogeneous. Recent justices have come from remarkably similar background and the reported front-runner, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, would fit right in.

Judge Jackson grew up in a major metropolitan area, and her father was a lawyer. She would be the fifth sitting justice to fit that profile. She earned both her bachelor  and law degrees at Harvard and would be the seventh justice with an Ivy League undergraduate degree and the eighth graduate of Harvard or Yale law school.

She clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer and would be the sixth justice to have served as a Supreme Court clerk. Two of her prospective colleagues, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, likewise succeeded the justices for whom they clerked. After clerking, Judge Jackson worked at an elite Washington law firm focusing on appellate litigation, as did five other current justices. She has served as a federal appellate judge, like every other justice but Elena Kagan, and would be the fourth justice from the District of Columbia Circuit.

She did serve as a federal district judge Sonia Sotomayor is the only current justice with that experience), on the U.S. Sentencing Commission and as a public defender. Yet on the whole, her experiences from Harvard on greatly resemble those of the justices already on the bench.
She is extremely well qualified in the conventional term achievement in elite academic and legal competitions, But is that all that matters?


Professor Barton offers a different view of diversity in choosing the pre-ordained Black Woman.



Mr. Biden may want to look closely at another name reportedly on his short list: Judge J. Michelle Childs.
She is  a product of the Columbia, S.C., public school system who earned a scholarship to the University of South Florida and got her law degree at the University of South Carolina both public institutions. She made partner at a Columbia law firm practicing labor and employment law and has worked in state government and served as a state and federal trial judge.
Both she and Judge Jackson are highly qualified to serve on the court, but in terms of sheer diversity, Judge Childs has an advantage.


In the end, short of unforeseen scandals, real or imagined, Biden will get a black woman as he has promised for over 2 years.

And it will have little if any effect on the midterms.

You were not content posting a bunch of Bullshit you had to Pile it Higher and Deeper... and keep the words and name of Dr. King out of your mouth.

[josh]

Judge Childs has the express, if preliminary, support of Senator Graham. If that holds, her passage would be far easier than anticipated and more so than some others'.

[LarryBnDC]

Judge Childs has the express, if preliminary, support of Senator Graham. If that holds, her passage would be far easier than anticipated and more so than some others'.

The only thing that could screw up any appointment is a rogue Democratic Senator

GOP can scream holler and stamp their feet, just like Dems did with ACB and the result will be the the same.

After Kavanaugh it will take some powerful juju to derail any selection.

All this is a bunch smoke blowing by the Usual Suspects from the No Labels crowd.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Oh, those polls!


Just over three-quarters of Americans (76%) want Pres. Biden to consider all possible nominees, while 23% want him to follow through on his commitment to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, per a new
ABC News/Ipsos poll.

Other finding from the poll were unflattering toward the president, who earned low approval numbers on issues  like inflation with 69% disapproving  to surging crime and gun violence.

 Just 1% of those polled said the state of the economy is "excellent."

[Hairy Lime]

Whisk - the criticism is valid - as it would have been with Reagan (whe he promised a woman and named O'Connor)

If the entirety of the judicial field is not to be considered how is it possible to insist you got the best candidate?

Demographic and political considerations have always - always - defined "best candidate" for the Supreme Court.

This has nothing to do with if any are "qualified".

Why was Obama not naming a black woman?  No chance at confirmation - is that the only reason?

Because there were other political and demographic considerations. Latinx woman, for instance, a Repo headed obstructionist senate that necessitated a concensus choice, not that it mattered.

And yes, qualified is the point.