Because of Joe Bidenās awesome strategy, the entire conversation about her will be whether she is the right color and gender and if Dems are the real racists for insisting on a black person. I love America.
If youāre a centrist Democrat though thatās a great ideology friendly area to fight in. Like does it matter sheās anti labor? No. This is about the long legacy of discrimination against African Americans and women
Oh, I wouldnāt say it doesnāt matter. Iād say they probably like it a lot. Centrist Dems would see this as her being a Responsible Person that doesnāt believe in pie-in-the-sky nonsense like labor rights.
Iād be real careful about judging a judicial candidate based upon the clients they represented as an attorney in private practice. That leads to the position that criminal defense attorneys who defend people accused of heinous acts are likewise not fit to sit on the bench.
I think itās pretty easy to make the argument that criminal defendants, indigent or otherwise, are more deserving of counsel than large corporations (even though both, of course, have the right to it). If youāve got the talent/credentials/connections to make high six figures/low seven figures in biglaw defending the Nestles of the world, you could have instead made low six figures working at a nonprofit or government job thatās not as evil.
I donāt usually judge someone for where they work, and I donāt think sheās a bad person for repping those clients (no ethical consumption under capitalism, etc etc), but if youāve got your pick of literally anyone to fill a SCOTUS seat I really canāt justify picking the corporate stooge.
I havenāt read a ton about Jackson but the bit Iāve read she seems ok, right?
Counterpoint: fuck Neal Katyal
no wai, rhiannon by a mile
They all seem fine to me, but he should pick the youngest one. It doesnāt really matter, this judge is never ever ever ever going to be the swing vote on anything.
Biden should pick the feistiest one who is the most likely to stab Clarence Thomas in the face.
Why face?
because thereās more to stab?
NBZ is generally very practical about these things. Iād imagine neck to better suit his purposes.
Hereās Laurence Tribe previously arguing that a 50-50 tie on a SCOTUS appointment cannot be broken by a VP:
I have a feeling this is going to come up, and thereās a chance the GOP tries to rally around process arguments to hold party lines.
Personally, Iām not convinced they wouldnāt be making a mistake. The EV of keeping it 6-3 versus the EV of 6-2 with a riled up Dem base going into the midterms has to be reasonably close.
If Dems suspect this is what theyāre going to do, slowing down the process is actually the right political move, to get the outrage to peak heading into election season.
Given the situation, I assume Dems are clueless and will slow down the process for stupid reasons, potentially luckbox this outcome, and be so blindsided by it they donāt even have ads ready to go.
If stealing a seat didnāt get turn out to win 2016,I doubt going for some obscure ruling will get turnout.
Also both Pence and Harris have broken a tiebreak for appointments. So they ācanāt vote to break a tie on appointmentsā but they have and no one stopped them.
Iām in the middle of this episode and one small thing stood out: when Conan talked about her having diabetes, she corrected him to say that it was a condition she lived with, not a disease she suffered from. I donāt think I had ever heard anyone make that distinction before and thought it was interesting.
cool story bro.
The bright side of the current court makeup is that whether her vote is right or wrong doesnāt really matter.
I guess if framing it that way helps her cope, thatās fine. Obviously she can choose to view it how she likes. Diabetes is pretty clearly a disease, though (and type 1 is particularly shitty). I doubt she would dispute that in most other contexts.
murk on jake tapper, VERY CONCERNED that Biden NEEDS to pick someone who will get BIPARTISAN support, otherwise americans will think the court is political
no followup from tapper on what she thinks of trumpās picks
How does he not follow up with something like āMitch McConnell opened those floodgates when he used supreme court appointments as a political football and stole three of them from being appointed correctly, so who exactly is making the court political here?ā