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Three and a Half Predictions About Biden’s Supreme Court Pick
Prediction 1: To replace retiring Justice Breyer, Biden will nominate a hard-left whackjob in the mold of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Prediction 2: Every Corporate Media outlet will describe the hard-left whackjob as a “solid, centrist, mainstream pick.” (Including Fox News.)
Prediction 3: Republican Senators Murkowski, Collins, and Romney will vote for the hard-left whackjob. Sinema and Manchin, too.
Prediction 3 and a half: The hard-left whackjob may or may not be Kamala Harris. Romney and the other DIABLOs will vote for her.
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Y’know, they probably will nominate someone more challenged than Sotomayor. The Court is going to need a short bus.
Yes, if only we had 50 Republican senators. Caving is what they do best.
Aren’t you being redundant? I gave up watching Fox News a long time ago, and their website headline editors are incapable of writing a headline that doesn’t include words like “blasts”, “rips”, “bombshell”, “rages” or similar.
My money’s on Stacy Abrams. Youngish, black, female, radical, Harvard Law grad. Can’t you just see Miss Lindsey voting to advance her nomination from the Judiciary Committee to the Senate floor?
And she looks like she could have been a man originally.
From what I have seen of Sotomayor, she is just stupid enough to think she’s the smartest — wise Latina — person in the room.
Since we’re getting a radical anyway, I could live with that. It would act to reduce her public politicking and public pronouncements severely, which would be a gift.
Yes, and they both have such distinguished records (by Democrat standards, that is).
Well, Hillary didn’t really do anything but marry up. And as I’ve pointed out before about Kamala, she owes her entire career – such as it is – to Willie Brown and his brown willy.
You mean it isn’t?!
I’ve clearly been taking too many drugs.
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Dang!
She would be embarrassingly on stage in the confirmation hearings, something I don’t think the Dems would want to have to deal with before the election. Of course it is entirely possible that she would be so bad under questioning that her nomination would be withdrawn, and if she had already resigned as veep—well, getting rid of her entirely could look like an attractive option.
Maybe that’s the plan, but if she figures it out, she’ll refuse the “honor.”
Kamala would not resign until the SCOTUS appointment is confirmed.
Sniffers.
Interesting comment. Would a refusal to resign unless she is confirmed be an indication that she thinks she wouldn’t make it past whatever committee is in charge?
Stacey Abrams
Michelle Obama
Nickie Minage
my picks.
Nicki by a mile.
If this happens, Abrams will treat the office as a podium with a huge megaphone.
If it’s up to her, yes, but that depends on who has the leverage. However, I defer to Mollie Hemingway, who says she will not be nominated. https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/18/no-jeffrey-toobin-biden-is-not-putting-kamala-harris-on-the-supreme-court/
There is no way she steps off one boat until her foot is on another. Why should she?
It won’t be Kamala
Democrats just want her to go away.
If they appoint her to the Supreme Court she will be around FOR-LIFE!
Anita Hill.
Trans Merrick Garland in blackface. Northam and Trudeau can show him how.
I agree with those who say Harris will not be the nominee. I doubt she would want the job of supreme court justice. She has never indicated any interest in any type of job that has the features of being a supreme court justice. Despite having limited self-awareness, she seems aware enough to understand that she would be miserable at the court, as she’d be so far out of her league among the others working at the court.
Stacey Abrams has too much baggage for any but the most thoroughgoing partisan Democrats.
Assuming Biden nominates a black woman as he has said he will, and assuming she gets confirmed, although that justice will still have one of nine votes, we can all confidently attach an asterisk to any opinion written by that justice and dismiss it as the work of an affirmative action justice who is less than a full equal scholar to the other justices on the court. We’d also have an interesting argument over her participation in hearing and deciding the Harvard College race discrimination case, since clearly she would be on the supreme court only because of her race and sex. She will never be treated as a full equal to the other justices on the court.
It’s kind of a shame if the first obvious affirmative-action SCOTUS nominee doesn’t get there by the first obvious affirmative-action president, i.e. Obama.
Well, the most important qualification is a Black Woman. So, I think Biden should nominate one of:
Queen Latifah
Beyonce
Whoopi Goldberg