Clay Jones for April 09, 2022

It ain’t the minor leagues.

With her background in the law and her smarts, I think she’ll be just fine.

Remember this quote -

“A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.”

- Thurgood Marshall

I believe he managed to do quite well both for himself, his nation, and the court. And not only in that particular order.

And yet the many comments yesterday prove that this site and the nation indeed still has too many of what are commonly referred to as “peckerwoods” – in this case not so much a racist epithet as an apt description of folks either already associated with or wanting (or more appropriately in the case of the Turd Reich trolls, yearning) to be associated with racist and/or neo-Nazi groups, and especially in their case espousing racist and homophobic, misogynist, and otherwise both ignorant and hate filled rhetoric and lies.

Unfortunately, Clay Jones is 100% correct.

Republicans and other racists, bigots, misogynists, homophobes and transphobes are beginning to see the end to their infection of the United States. The future of the SCOTUS will follow the example of Justice Jackson, not the example of Trump.

As Squiggles points out, the center panel is a disgusting sentiment.

There were exactly and precisely zero intelligent reasons to vote against confirming Jackson. There were exactly and precisely zero honest reasons to vote against confirming her. Therefore, no surprise whatsoever that 47 Republican senators voted against her.

Methinks (๑❛ᴗ❛๑) doth protest too much. . . /s

It’s a sad reflection on America that the color of one’s skin should even be a consideration for any job.

Clay, consider all the young women who say; ‘’If she can do it, so can I.’’

BK is drunk. ACB and CT are in conference with their respective spouses about upcoming rulings. They don’t know Breyer is retiring yet. It’ll be a while before they realize they have a woman of color on the bench with them.

I have to disagree with Clay on this. The minority race on the high court doesn’t always operate as discenters. There are times when Repub appointees and Dem appointees will appear to go against the grain in their voting. So much of the decisions by these justices has to do with the case that is before them. Roberts saved ACA, and Repubs scratched their heads. Sotomayor voted with the conservatives and the Dems went to scratching. These justices are independent thinkers largely. Yes, they do come with their own experiences and biases, but they also value greatly the US Constitution as the law of the land and they seek to apply it to the cases brought before them.

Small steps. (insert sigh)

white is not the majority, but because the real majority is busy being piss ants they letting the minority rule

Justice, Interrupted: The Effect of Gender, Ideology and Seniority at Supreme Court Oral Arguments.

By Tonja Jacobi* and Dylan Schweers †

Oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court are important—they affect case outcomes and constitute the only opportunity for outsiders todirectly witness the behavior of the Justices of the highest court. This Article studies how the Justices compete to have influence at oral argument, by examining the extent to which the Justices interrupt each other; it also scrutinizes how advocates interrupt the Justices, contrary to the rules of the Court. We find that judicial interactions at oral argument are highly gendered, with women being interrupted at disproportionate rates by their male colleagues, as well as by male advocates. Oral argument interruptions are highly ideological, notonly because ideological foes interrupt each other far more than ideological allies do, but also because, as we show, conservatives interrupt liberals more frequently than vice versa. Seniority also has some influence on oral arguments, but primarily through the female Justices learning over time how to behave more like male Justices, avoiding traditionally female linguistic framing in order to reduce the extent to which they are dominated by the men.

BS toon again. Hope she receives better kindness then the recent new appointees got.

Time for you to fight the good fight. You are young and more will come. You can fight for meaningful change.What we need besides rolling back voter suppression laws, is a weaker GOP party and an equally weaker DEM. and some moderately stronger parties, in particular a few more left of center. Both of the major parties are on center and creeping more to the right. Simply put I want all citizens to vote. But I want them to feel NO NOT FEEL BUT TO KNOW they voted for something/someone that means something. That they are participating in meaningful change.

Sadly, this is the best-case scenario for all 3 of the liberal justices. I have a disturbing vision of what is going to happen to her when the Fascists take everything over in 2025. See what happens to the Supreme Court when dictators take over a country. I’m sure the right-wing trolls on here already have the rope ready for her.

When Justice Thomas looks into a mirror, what does he see?

The Republicans that stormed out of the confirmation should all resign. They have disgraced the USA with their actions. They do this with the belief they will be able to whitewash history and make themselves heroes. History will actually remember them as the idiots, fools and complicit Russian stooges they really are.

“Ignorance knows no bounds.”

So stop voting for republican liars.