I thought everyone knew this.
Paul Ryan, in the past, has commented about her from time to time as he seems to know her some what through this family connection. Always very positive (as he was when she was nominated to her current post). Of course, it is not going to move the needle one iota.
Assuming nothing crazy happens, she’ll get 50 dems and maybe a small number of crossovers who want to seem impartial.
“You voted for her last time! Owned!!!”
Lol
Democrats
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., slammed President Biden over his Supreme Court nomination announcement timing “just days” after Russia launched its invasion into Ukraine.
Blackburn made the comments on Friday after sources revealed that Biden will nominate D.C. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
“President Biden’s announcement just days after an unprovoked full-scale invasion by Russia is extremely inappropriate,” Blackburn said in a statement.
my dude called it
I mean, I don’t want to defend Ginni Fucking Thomas, but every white person has at least two or three of these aunts
He’s a credit to his race, I tell you what!
Carlson said Jackson was nominated “because of how she looks”. He said: “Do you want to live in that country? Most people don’t, of all colors. They think you should be elevated in America based on what you do, on the choices not on how you were born, not on your DNA, because that’s Rwanda.”
Yeah, but they’re not every white person’s favorite aunt.
How many more times are we going to get headlines talking about Tucker going full white supremacist before the press starts calling him “Noted white supremacist Tucker Carlson”
Did McConnell forget to put his dentures in?
He always looks like that.
How bad is this one, really?
This is mostly a serious question. I haven’t read the decision, but I’m curious to how much twisted logic the majority engaged in. Anyone read it?
From my quick reading of the opinion and dissent, not bad as in it doesn’t radically change anything. But bad in the sense that it is a case of use and abuse of discretion and if you’re inclined to want Tsarnaev guy executed you’ll say the court used it correctly and said all the magic words while doing it, while the dissent says they abused it and should have allowed the defense to provide some mitigating evidence during sentencing. The evidence they wanted to admit were a bit of a Hail Mary play and probably wouldn’t have changed the outcome, but it could have.
I had forgotten what a wild case this was, but I do vaguely remember refreshing the 2p2 thread constantly for updates. I definitely didn’t remember these two facts:
- Three days later, as investigators began to close in, the brothers fled. In the process, they murdered a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer, carjacked a graduate student, and fought a street battle with police during which Dzhokhar inadvertently ran over and killed Tamerlan.
- In an attempt to show Tamerlan’s domineering nature, Dzhokhar sought to introduce the statements of Ibragim Todashev, who had alleged during an FBI interview that, years earlier, Tamerlan had participated in a triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts. The Government asked the trial court to exclude any reference to the Waltham murders on the grounds that the evidence either lacked rele- vance or, alternatively, lacked probative value and was likely to con- fuse the issues. The Government also pointed out that, because FBI agents had killed Todashev in self-defense after he attacked them during the interview, there were no living witnesses to the Waltham murders.
Even if you didn’t know that Thomas wrote the opinion, it’s pretty easy to guess which way it’s going to go when it starts off with this:
The Tsarnaev brothers immigrated to the United States in the early 2000s and lived in Massachusetts. Little more than a decade later, they were actively contemplating how to wage radical jihad. They downloaded and read al Qaeda propaganda, and, by December of 2012, began studying an al Qaeda guide to bomb making.
Skimming through the opinion and the dissent, though, it doesn’t seem like an obviously outrageous outcome, nor does it seem like the majority had to twist logic or precedent to get there. The key issue is whether the trial court should have allowed evidence of the Waltham homicide into the courtroom (in order to demonstrate his brother’s aggression and support the idea that, if not for his domineering brother, Dzhokhar wouldn’t have committed the crime). And it seems at least plausible that it shouldn’t have been admitted, because the brother was not actually convicted of that crime, nor is there any living witness to speak to that crime. So you have the potential that the Waltham homicide becomes it’s own mini-trial inside of a larger trial.
Meh, just a gross case overall and adds to a long list of SCOTUS being indifferent to or actively opposed to the rights of death row prisoners.
I don’t really have an issue with the decision but just lol at including that shit about Al Qaeda which is completely irrelevant to the issue at hand and reflects naked racism.
Seems like they shouldn’t have even taken the marathon bomber case, if it’s not adjudicating anything new. Just vindictive application of an inhumane punishment.
By a vote of 6-3 the Supreme Court has allowed the change from lethal injection to flaying followed by being drawn and quartered