Kentaji Brown Jackson
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Paul Ryan a relative by marriage apparently. So there's that.
If Republicans are smart here they'll let this sail through with little pushback. If they were really smart, they'd confirm her overwhelmingly and take back the moral high-ground on how this process should work. They lose nothing and go a long way to convincing moderate types that they are the adults in the senate.
Agreed. This isn't a fight they should pick unless there is something seriously wrong with her.
I’m not sure how qualified she actually is for SCOTUS. She’s doesn’t have much of a record and the little bit she has is fraught with appellate reversals. She’ll be confirmed regardless but I’m not sure she’d be seen as qualified if you took the name off the résumé.
She is more qualifed than Bryant, who the Republicans rushed through. Most of Bryant's career was as a professor, she had only been a judge for 3 years and was never a trial lawyer.
If being a trial lawyer is requisite then I’m sure that you think Justice Kagan should never have been confirmed. Since we’re going down the whataboutism route.
Honestly, I don’t really care who gets seated to replace Breyer.
I didnt say it was a requisite, but if you don't think Brown is qualified, there is no way you can think someone whose legal career was mostly as a professor is qualified.
It isnt whataboutism, it is about consistency. Republicans are already starting these attacks on her. Tucker is wanting to see her LSAT scores, despite the fact nobody ever asks about LSAT scores for anyone else, and LSATs are pretty pointless anyway when you have a body of work to look at. IT is just like Obama's birth certificate. Nobody cared about anyone elses birth certificate except his. Nobody cares about anyone's LSATs except hers. SO yeah, the attacks on her qualifications are going to be coming, but funny enough, the same standard wasnt remotely considered for any other nominees.
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Elections have consequences. Her being a Justice will be one of them, good or bad depends on what you believe.
You said it isn’t about whataboutism and then piled on with Obama’s birth certificate that has absolutely no relevance.
The nominee’s judicial record of overreach and political rulings deserves scrutiny. I believe that this pattern of behavior may lessen her qualifications. I’m not sure if either Coney Barrett or Brown Jackson are qualified or not but my opinion doesn’t matter. I do know that there were far more qualified potential candidates available that weren’t nominated for whatever reason.
OF course you can look at her record, nobody is arguing that. But if you are going to claim someone is unqualiied, then it most certainly reasonable to bring up that she is just as qualiied as others on the court, especially the last person who was only appointed a little over a year ago. It is just weird that qualifications only seem to matter to one side, that is all I am saying.
Given that every one of the 47 Democrats in the Senate at the time voted against the confirmation Amy Coney Barrett, I'd say qualifications seem to matter to the Democrats. Unless you are saying that the Democrat votes were politically motivated in some way.
SHe was rushed through to get in before the election. I dont blame Democrats for not voting for her right before the election, seeing as Republicans wouldnt even bring hearings for a nomination 10 months prior to an election. I
She wasn’t “rushed through.” Her process time was in line with other nominees. Just because they invoked cloture to stop Schumer’s obstructionism doesn’t mean she was rushed through.
SHe was rushed through from the perspective that if 10 months prior to an election is too close to nominate someone, then 1 month is obviously too close to an election. Republicans were complete hypocrites on that, so Democrats had every reason not to vote or her, based on Mitch McConnell's reasoning for not even having hearings for Garland. We should all want our courts to be apolitical, but for that to happen, then both sides have to play by the same set of rules.
The Democrats threw any claim they had to decorum and norms with their atrocious behavior during the Kavanaugh confirmation process and then the self-serving shifts on the filibuster. At this point I agree with the statement above that elections have consequences and that’s pretty much the whole story.
