After four days of hostile grilling by Republicans, the nation had the chance to see a person who stood up to every insulting and demeaning question with a calm and collected demeanor. Judge KJB has a judicial temperament. She demonstrated grace under pressure.
She just received the highest rating from the American Bar Association, in recognition of her record, wisdom and intellect.
The senators running for the Republican nomination used the opportunity to appeal to their racist, Q Anon base, asserting that she was an advocate of critical race theory (false), soft on crime (false), and easy on child pornographers (false).
The judge has been endorsed by police organizations; several of her family members were law enforcement officers.
She opposes racism, but that does not make a CRT ideologue. The fact that her husband is white gives the lie to those like Senator Cruz who portray her as a racist who is hostile to white people.
The flap about child pornographers was an effort by GOP senators to placate the crazies in Q Anon who believe the government is filled with predators of children. Anyone who panders you them should be ashamed.
The judge was even questioned about whether she supports court-packing, a strange question coming from a party who refused to meet with President Obama’s choice “because it was an election year,” but rushed through Justice Barrett’s nomination on the eve of the 2020 election. The court now has 6 conservatives and only three liberals. Judge Brown would not change that uneven balance.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is well qualified to serve on the High Court. She should be promptly confirmed. Republicans should demonstrate that they are not knee-jerk partisans by voting for her.
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She’ll be confirmed, although it will be another very narrow vote, as these confirmations are now almost 1000% partisan affairs.
Meant to type 100%, but on reflection I’ll stand by “almost 1000%.”
Joe Manchin announced he will vote for her so she will be confirmed.
She might also get votes of Collins and Murkowski, maybe Romney.
If she doesn’t get the vote of Mitt Romney, I will lose all respect for him. And I do respect him, even when I disagree with him.
Judge Jackson is impressive! Brilliant. Learned. Calm under fire. Careful. Reasoned. Empathetic. Decent. I heartily approve of this endorsement.
cx: Reasoned in her opinions
Yes!
I’ll be surprised if any GOPers vote for her. Now if she had cried about how much she liked beer, then she might have garnered a couple GOP votes. She’s qualified, she gets my vote…..this is why I voted Democratic because the SCOTUS is so crucial. If Trump had won, we would be looking at yet another right winger on the court to replace Breyer.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is amazing! As a history guy–who went to law school as well–I have never seen a more impressive testimony or poise in answering rude, rhetorical questions. She gave us all a lesson or two in how the practice of law and judging are approached, as well as how to deal with rude, bullies. So, YES, she should be on the Supreme Court, and NO, I was not favorably impressed with her opposition in Ted Cruz and other Republican Senators who seemed obsessed with, uh, well…child pornography, and related. Wow, reminds me of the opening from Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” It was the best of nominees; it was the worst of questioners.
I entirely agree. Never in all my years have I seen a more impressive nominee. She totally blew me away. Poise. Profound learning. Keen intelligence. Unflappability. There is no single word in English that captures ALL of the nuances of connotation of the precise opposite of heedlessness, but if there were such a word, her picture would be next to it in the dictionary. When I grow up, I want to be a lot more like her.
Sadly, it won’t matter to these blind men that lawyers across the country are sending letters of support for her – just like when scientists and university professors talk about stuff like, you know, science!
And, don’t tell Hawley, but the Missouri Bar Association teaches development courses and trainings on topics like anti-bias and ” best practices not only for law firms but also for advising clients on developing diversity, inclusion, and equity training and practices.”
Doesn’t matter – these guys all took the Hypocritical Oath
just like when scientists and university professors talk about stuff like, you know, science!
Haaaa! Rolling on the floor here, Wait, What?!!!!
and “the Hypocritical Oath”
OMSL (oh my sweet lord). I’m stealing that one. I shall try to remember to attribute it to one Wait, What!
There was a graphic I saw somewhere comparing Brown to the two recent Trump appointees. She looked so much more qualified in years of experience that it seemed like a graphic from a late night comedy show.
I did not hang on every word. Most of the hearing was over before I got out of school each day. I did hear enough to note that the lady patiently explained how judges work in contrast to the questions that came her way from the party which seeks to maintain its grip on a country slowly slipping from that grasp.
I have a dear friend who is very conservative. To his way of thinking, she was shown to be utterly devoid of any intelligence by the wonderfully penetrating questions from a firmly principled conservative opposition. He feels his America slipping away in the direction of disobedience and sin. He sees the country responding to a very distant left that stirs disunity in order to gain power for a communist takeover by the likes of Kamila Harris. Or at least that is what he says. We are still good friends because I refuse to engage in political discourse with him. I tell him I will not discuss political matters until we can agree on a version of reality based on fact instead of fiction.
I think Brown is going to have a hard time fighting the conservative majority on the court, which will outlast most of us. The Supremes and least can start to look more representative when she is confirmed.
I do wish she had responded to the question of when life begins differently. I think she should have reminded the senators that life begins when you retire. It has become obvious that rights before that time are subservient to rights of those who hire them. So rights seem to be distributed unevenly throughout employment. Zukerberg seems to have the right to collect data on me, but I do not have the right to protect myself from his collection without giving up the right to do business. The Republicans seem concerned for the rights of the unborn, but they better get ready to manage on their own quicker than a killdeer, because they are without help as soon as they emerge wiggling and squirming (a state still evident in many 9th graders, I can assure you).
So life begins when you retire, I think. That is also the time when a lot of people on this blog seem to have done their best work, because I certainly find an education here.
You remind me of the old Onion point-counterpoint column about when life begins.
https://www.theonion.com/life-begins-at-conception-vs-life-begins-at-40-1819594280
Flerp: Thanks. Good Onion.
Thanks for the much-needed laughs, FLERP! L❤️VE The 🌰!!
a state still evident in many 9th graders, I can assure you
LOL. Been there, seen that, on the front lines, Roy!
I wish she had used a “Bill Russell elbow moment”* and responded – just once – to hawley
“Junior Senator Hawley, your question aligns you with the Q-Anon group – might I ask if you are a member speaking for them or are they prominent among your constituency in Missouri?
There is a pattern here of your alignment with conspiracy theorists (and cherry-picking every self-serving phrase of mine out of context).
Your Fist Bump on January 6 was to encourage seditionists to take over the Capitol where they murdered policeman based on conspiracy theory proven to be just that. And, that you are so proud of that moment you attempted to use the picture in campaign ads which is also illegal without permission of the publisher that owns the photo.
Which, by the way, I trust as a lawyer you would expect Justice Thomas to recuse himself from any cases related to the ex-president because of his wife’s alliance and texts supporting the White House attempted Coup.”
… and drop the mic!
*Bill Russell – legend the Hall of Fame basketball player was known as such a nice guy when he was battered under the boards, he was encourage to once – just once – throw an elbow against an opponent and that would be the last time anyone goes after him.
Excellent, Wait, What?!
Please, sign our Democratic Party politicians up for lessons with this person!
On a lighter note, has anyone read the news piece about her husband’s socks.
This is really a serious statement. this guy really walks the walk.
Haaa! Yes!
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic confirmation to the US Supreme Court, after demonstrating her grasp and fidelity to our Constitution and its application to modern times, will hopefully be a bellwether for our nations’ future.
It sharply rebukes the groundless charge that she was picked as a concession to tokenism. The fact that notice is made of her gender and race is completely incidental to the pure and indisputable integrity of her selection.
To her credit, she has already made enemies among those who yearn to bust labor unions.
In September 2020, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) tried to neutralize public employee unions by severely reducing their collective bargaining rights. That was a reversal of their ruling of 1985.
Thirty-five years of precedent cannot go down the toilet when the would-be flusher is unconstitutional.
When Jackson was a judge at the US District Court for the District of Columbia, she sided in favor of labor unions that had sued the government over 3 presidential orders that were calculated to stifle their negotiating authority, make it a cinch for management to fire federal union workers at their pleasure, and to sacrifice freedom of unionist expression under the guise of cost-effectiveness.
Judge Jackson denounced, by impeccable legal argument, this attempt to “eviscerate” the unions.
Although only federal union workers were affected, it is clear that the intention was to extend its stifling effect eventually to government unionized employees on state and city levels also.
It is abundantly obvious that Judge Jackson’s philosophy, judicial, moral and intellectual, endorses the protection of workers rights.
Every vacancy on the US Supreme Court spurs ideological debates. What exactly is an ideology? Is it a collection of partisan values that serve as a playbook for its subscribers and activists? Is it a system of venerable ideas tied together into a code such as practiced by the great religious figures?
Aren’t holy books dramatizations of ideology? Then what is the role of ideology for US Supreme Court judges? In the sense of upholding the soul of the Constitution, Jackson promises to be ideology-inspired, but she will not be an ideologue in a pejorative sense.
In her rulings and in any every form and test, Justice Jackson will affirm the dignity of all people. She should be resoundingly confirmed for all the right reasons.