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Cruz searching Twitter for mentions after grilling Jackson.

 

Baba-Q-ee

Howard Stern Gives 'Wacko Party' Trump Fans A Brutal Election Reality Check

 

Pandering? He made a campaign promise and he kept it, which I understand is unusual. Tell me, was Sandra Day O'Connor diminished over the course of her Supreme Court career? I don't think she was.

 

I think the chart does go out of the way to highlight stuff she has that a lot of the others don't, but I also think it is meant to highlight to people who don't pay attention that she is as qualified as any of the others, despite those going out of their way to discredit her ability.

And I think the point of some of the differences is to show what she adds. Does it matter that she's the only one to be a public defender? It at least gives her a different prospective that the other eight voices in the room and how they might approach some things. Does it matter that she will replace Breyer's spot as the lone justice who was on the sentencing commission, in case that comes in handy for a docket a decade down the road?

 

Johnson sure didn’t do Thurgood Marshall any favors by putting that token on the Court.

 

We’re not all required to have your cynical take on it.

 

But jealous spite and all their precious courts
He must be tweet on the telephone they need their Gov to trans hate
He plays the electorate so more running money

Arc of a liar effortlessly, his mind is a lie and when we wake up
Daytime and nighttime the danger is clear
Cold fascists breathing AOC helps us here

Mean streak and Putin spawned on the streets I hear it but with you I had to go
'Cause their soundbites have to be found and the beat it goes on
Arc of a liar effortlessly, his mind is a lie and when we wake up
Daytime and nighttime the danger is clear
Cold fascists breathing AOC helps us here

 

And if Biden didn’t say anything about a potential nominee and then went ahead with his choice, would the outcome have been any different? Would Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley and the rest of the knuckle draggers said “she is a highly-qualified individual and will get my vote?” Methinks not.

 

She's a great choice.

And as always, a reminder of the qualifications required for appointment to the Supreme Court:

Frequently Asked Questions: General Information - Supreme Court of the United States

Are there qualifications to be a Justice? Do you have to be a lawyer or attend law school to be a Supreme Court Justice?

The Constitution does not specify qualifications for Justices such as age, education, profession, or native-born citizenship. A Justice does not have to be a lawyer or a law school graduate, but all Justices have been trained in the law. Many of the 18th and 19th century Justices studied law under a mentor because there were few law schools in the country.

• The last Justice to be appointed who did not attend any law school was James F. Byrnes (1941-1942). He did not graduate from high school and taught himself law, passing the bar at the age of 23.
• Robert H. Jackson (1941-1954). While Jackson did not attend an undergraduate college, he did study law at Albany Law School in New York. At the time of his graduation, Jackson was only twenty years old and one of the requirements for a law degree was that students must be twenty-one years old. Thus rather than a law degree, Jackson was awarded with a "diploma of graduation." Twenty-nine years later, Albany Law School belatedly presented Jackson with a law degree noting his original graduating class of 1912.

 

MSNBC chryon "Griner is doing well in prison." WTF is that supposed to mean?

 

She’s still alive. That’s what that means.