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Batten Down the Hatches! Justice Breyer is Retiring!
Would it be “jumping the gun” to predict that all hell is about to break loose? I think not.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire — once a replacement has been confirmed — after serving for nearly three decades on America’s highest court, according to reporting confirmed by NBC News on Wednesday.
The retirement of Breyer — who at 83 is the Supreme Court’s oldest justice — will allow President Biden to nominate a replacement, giving liberals a chance to lock in a reliably liberal justice for decades to come.
President Biden has previously promised that, if given the chance, his first nominee to the Supreme Court would be a black woman. Potential nominees who fit the bill, according to NBC, include “federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, former Breyer law clerk, and Leondra Kruger, a justice on California’s Supreme Court.”
The news sets up a bitter confirmation fight just before the midterm elections in which Democrats are expected to suffer significant losses in Congress. With a currently razor-thin majority in the U.S. Senate, every Democrat will need to be onboard with whomever President Biden nominates. But a Democratic caucus that hasn’t been entirely unified in Biden’s first year in office, means that Senators such as Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) could pose an obstacle to radical nominees.
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If she was assigned to run the court cafeteria she’d probably hire a staff of undocumented workers.
He already has enough feminine traits, so he doesn’t need the operation . . .
Done! I’ll even give you the Stad discount. Now, lie on the table and I’ll go get my knife and shoe polish . . .
Hmmmmm what about Michelle Obama?
Nope, not trans.
She is, however, as far as I know, “all” black. Barack is only half-black, his mother was white.
Too masculine
Hang on a sec wit that knife. One has only to choose and believe that one is black and a woman to qualify. I’m willing to go THAT far, but no further.
Too old – he’s already 60.
Just as the Speaker of the House doesn’t have to be a member of Congress.
Say what you will about Bill Clinton, for one of his SOTU speeches they loaded the wrong speech into the teleprompter, and he just started in and did it from memory until they got things straightened out. And nobody could tell.
I’d like to have seen Obama do that.