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Considering how Ketanji Brown Jackson does not know what the definition of a woman is, how do we know if she is a woman or not? Who is to say?
If we cannot verify what a woman is and that she is indeed one, how can we say she is the first black woman SCJ when she gets on the court?
In fact, how do we even know she is black? What does black mean? Define it?
Now that I think about it, Ketanji Brown Jackson is actually anti-LGBTQ+AI%^#$)*. She said she could not define what a woman is because she is not a biologist, which means she thinks men and women are defined by something they are physically born with.
This is outrageous and she should step down immediately. She is dismissing those that feel they are what they are regardless of what they are. This is outrageous. Why do democrats hate people?
"Hiring" based solely on gender and/or race has been shown to produce miserable failures. Think about it. Not naming names.
I guess you missed the part where this was directly in the mainstream of sentences being handed down by federal judges. Look, after she was a trial judge, she went through the confirmation process to become an appellate judge. In her previous confirmation hearing these 'soft on crime' allegations never came up.
Republicans are trying to create an issue where there is none.
The interesting aspect of the hearing was that unlike ACB she had broad experience as a trial judge, public defender, district court do of course questioning made sense but this was a witch hunt by Cruz, Graham and others. The exchange between Grassley, Cornyn and Lee to be mostly fair and it the sentencing process was educational.
Actually, I'd like to see someone from the Native American community considering their unique status in this country. I had an it's-about-time moment when the secretary of the interior that Biden appointed was the first Native American. So much of what that department does directly affects that community, and she would have special insight on those impacts. A judge from the Native American community would provide similar insight, considering this country's long, sordid history with wars, broken treaties and land disputes that come before the court.
The bad taste that will linger in America, following these hearings, is the one that has been produced by the flagrant misogyny and racism displayed by more than a few GOP senators who utilized their committee time to pander to the ignorant racists and misogynists that comprise their Republican Party.
Sigh.
Some day people may be able to set aside their biases and not think that minorities and women up for a supreme court nomination are weaker and thus need softer treatment than prior nominees.
I guess you missed the part where this was directly in the mainstream of sentences being handed down by federal judges. Look, after she was a trial judge, she went through the confirmation process to become an appellate judge. In her previous confirmation hearing these 'soft on crime' allegations never came up.
Republicans are trying to create an issue where there is none.
Nope, didn't miss it at all. (Not that it matters, but I'm not a Republican.)
And I didn't misunderstand it either - - it's very clear to everyone here what she did - - that does not give her a pass. It gives no judge a pass. I sadly expect politicians on both sides of the aisle to play fast & loose with their ethics, what little they still have left. But I don't expect that of a judge and no one should. She agreed that this dirtbag's crimes were heinous & egregious.... she doesn't get to hide behind what everyone else (mainstream fed jds) was doing. That guy deserved a helluva lot more than 3 months AND it was fully in her power to give him more. She knows that; everyone in that hearing knows that,; everyone on this thread knows that, including you.
Better KBJ should have seperated herself from the pack, and been the judge who still had the ethics and courage to hand a sentence to fit the crimes, the one judge who would have been just as worthy to receive a nomination, be confirmed, and sit on the SCOTUS bench as were Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia. (Yes, it's quite easy to admire a liberal judge and a conservative judge when you check your party loyalty at the door.)
Shame on anyone here using the "everyone else" crap*** excuse.....we are way past time when one gets away with it because another one did; because Congress can muddy it up with semantics & twisted narratives. For once and for all, stand up for what is true and moral, instead of slinging this BS identity politics.
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