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By congressional practice, the confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson gave senators an opportunity to examine her fitness to sit on the Supreme Court. But Republicans on the Judiciary Committee seized it to peddle conspiracies and pander to the MAGA kooks who now compose the base of their party. Jackson wrote over 570 opinions during… Read more.
According to reliable reports, Amy Coney Barrett is a member of People of Praise. It is a fringe Catholic group that requires its female members to live by a code of conduct so strict, it makes the code Margaret Atwood’s handmaidens are forced to live by seem promiscuous. Among other chauvinistic strictures, members of Barrett’s… Read more.
In “Re Supreme Court: Kavanaugh-Ford Playing Thomas-Hill Roles. But a Different Ending Looms,” September 17, 2018, I delineated some of the principled and political reasons why I asserted that Kavanaugh’s confirmation was toast. And, the intemperate way he spewed bald-faced lies during his testimony only reinforced my assertion. Frankly, there was no fair way he… Read more.
After today’s hearing, I can think of no better way to explain Republican support for Kavanaugh than this: Not to mention the bullying way they discarded the female prosecutor they hired to question both Ford and Kavanaugh. Republican leaders hired her in a brazen and shameless attempt to prevent the all-white men on their side… Read more.
I headlined my September 5 commentary: “Kavanaugh’s Confirmation as Justice Will Be as Tainted as Trump’s Election as President.” More to the point, in it I declared that only an act of God could derail his confirmation to the US Supreme Court. Well, this might qualify: A California psychology professor who has accused Supreme Court… Read more.
