I heard Lindsay Graham had a few crackers.
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 01:42 (two years ago) link
Brown Jackson seems like an excellent nominee, it's just really hard to get enthusiastic about a 3-6 court going into an election where dems are about to get slaughtered. At least it (probably) won't be 2-7 I guess?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 01:45 (two years ago) link
used to be alito followed scalia's lead like they were grafted together in a scotus version of the human centipede. why can't he do it just one more time?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 01:53 (two years ago) link
the GOP said that they were definitely not going to ask the Judge if she likes beer.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:18 (two years ago) link
Fuck Ted Cruz
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:49 (two years ago) link
Ted Cruz going after the 1619 Project and CRT at the hearings right now
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:49 (two years ago) link
Made sure to name drop Marx as well
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
she did a good job slapping down his gotcha quote
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
"Do you agree that babies should confess to their racism? Answer the question!!"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link
y'all didn't watch Graham this morning evidently. A performance for the ages.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link
These hearings are basically like, "So how can you, as a black woman, empathize with the white man?"
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
soft on child pornographers, tough on white folks
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
oh great it's ben's ass
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link
Jackson's response to Ben Sasse on how to thread "originalism" and modern sensibilities while interpreting Fourth Amendment case law was marvelous and intelligible to the average person.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 20:36 (two years ago) link
Lots of unintentional comedy today but “rate your faith 1-10” is up there.— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 22, 2022
Apparently it was Graham who came up with this howler.
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
Listening to it live ranks with my first viewing of Pulp Fiction as an epochal moment.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
She gave it an 8.3 but not BNM for some reason
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
lol
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
so many candidates but I think Lindsey Graham is my least favorite Senator
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
more child porn!!
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
I only wish she cared as much about the rule of law as she does about perverts and GITMO inmates
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link
It's like watching a class of kindergartners question their teacher about her job. She tries to explain the concepts of education and employment and it goes right over their heads so they get mad and say something like "it's not a hard question! Should my mom let me eat cake for breakfast on my birthday? Yes or no!"
― BrianB, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 00:12 (two years ago) link
I don't have the fortitude to watch these hearings, so can somebody please run down the state of play: we're basically waiting to see if Manchin/Sinema will embarrass themselves and find a reason not to approve Jackson, right? And in that event then Dems have to peel off votes from Romney/Murkowski/Collins?
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 15:05 (two years ago) link
Neither is on the Judiciary Committee.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link
I'd say there's a near zero chance of Manchin or Sinema not approving, unless one of them suprise announces switching parties or something.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link
not voting to confirm I mean
Whatever else, Manchinema have been good on judicial appointments.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link
Yeah, and I feel like that's one area where people virtually always stick with the party.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
didn't Manchin already raise objections about Jackson?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link
I meant when they put it to a vote...
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
It'll be in all the papers.
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 16:15 (two years ago) link
Apparently Hawley's extended riffage on child porn yesterday was a loud dog whistle to his Qanon people, went right over my head
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link
Graham was even more loathsome this morning!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 16:33 (two years ago) link
He's really the fucking worst. I go back and forth between "complete idiot" and "hiding something dark and traitorous."
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 16:43 (two years ago) link
NYT coverage:
She filibustered every single answer,” says Graham, who has spoken over Judge Jackson’s responses, delivered uninterrupted commentary and interrupted her responses nearly every time she has tried to answer.
and
The thought that Senator Graham seemed to be suggesting Judge Jackson’s trailblazer role as the first Black woman nominee to the Supreme Court is only because Democrats rejected a Black conservative woman, Janice Rogers Brown, doesn’t really work. As noted, Democrats filibustered her (and a handful of other particularly conservative Bush nominees to appeals courts in 2003), leaving her on the California Supreme Court for two more years before the Gang of 14 deal ended the filibuster and she was confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in June 2005. President Bush got the opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court justice in July 2005 when Justice Sandra Day O’Connor retired, and a second justice in September 2005 when Chief Justice William Rehnquist died. In short, Mr. Bush had two opportunities to elevate Judge Brown to be the trailblazing first Black woman justice; the fact that she was among those Senate Democrats had filibustered in his first term posed no obstacle to his making that choice if he had wanted to do so.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 16:56 (two years ago) link
There is audible groaning and noises of protest from many of the spectators here as Senator Graham again interrupted Judge Jackson. Graham then immediately left the dais.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
Graham was a drama major in junior college
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
Graham was major drama in junior college
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
i am against the death penalty but the one exception is for people who use any variation of the "i identify as an attack helicopter" non-joke. instant death for them.
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
JUST IN: A photo taken by @kentnish shows Ted Cruz searching Twitter for his own name after questioning Ketanji Brown Jackson with debunked narratives and going back and forth with Dick Durbin. pic.twitter.com/elFtyB4Rlg— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) March 23, 2022
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 22:41 (two years ago) link
Just IN: Ted Cruz is schmuck.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 22:44 (two years ago) link
i'm glad this is over, it was an extended hatewatch that i should not have engaged in and my head hurts. she seems nice though, like a normal person for once. she is a knitter!
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 23:52 (two years ago) link
The only bit of these hearings I’ll ever watch.
People of color, especially those who have the audacity to be the first, often have to work twice as hard to get half the respect. Judge Jackson, thank you for persevering. You are an inspiration. pic.twitter.com/HRXNG6pJZO— Senator Alex Padilla (@SenAlexPadilla) March 24, 2022
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 24 March 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
i did tear up watching that. but not at whatever cory booker was doing.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 24 March 2022 02:27 (two years ago) link
She seems like a really nice, down to earth person, something you can say about maybe 1% of people who are the type of gunner it takes to be in the running for SCOTUS, and a vibe I'm not sure I get from anyone else on the court.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 24 March 2022 02:43 (two years ago) link
She is universally beloved by everyone I know who knows her
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 24 March 2022 03:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.grid.news/story/politics/2022/03/23/little-is-known-about-justice-thomas-hospitalization-part-of-a-history-of-secrecy-from-the-court/
On Wednesday afternoon — the day after the court had previously said Thomas would be released from the hospital — the court’s public information office told Grid that it had “no update” on Thomas or his condition.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 24 March 2022 04:35 (two years ago) link
Evil shadow docket majority on Supreme Court keeps issuing decisions
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued an astonishing decision throwing out Wisconsin’s new legislative districts as a violation of the equal protection clause. The majority accused a Republican justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court of greenlighting a “racial gerrymander” by creating one more majority-Black district in the state Assembly. Wednesday’s unsigned decision, issued through the shadow docket, hands Wisconsin Republicans an unexpected victory in their quest to reduce Black representation in the legislature. It also alters the law of redistricting in fundamental yet cryptic ways that might, to a cynic, seem designed to disadvantage Democrats in every single case.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/supreme-court-voting-rights-shredder-wisconsin.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 March 2022 12:41 (two years ago) link
predictit market is a strong yes on KBJ confirmation during the first week of april and they think collins and murkowski will vote to confirm. market has nothing to say about clarence thomas.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 24 March 2022 16:24 (two years ago) link
Where are they on CODA beating The Power of the Dog?
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 March 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link