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Republican Senators Trivialize Crimes against Children
This is what the RepubliCAN’T leadership of Mendacious Mitch McConnell has always been, is now, and will be if we let him and his gang control the Republican Party in the Senate. Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Supreme Court nominee with a long history of supporting the latest supposedly victimized, misunderstood sexual minority, proudly promoted her record as one of progressive enlightenment. AND. Mittens Romney defended her and proudly voted for her confirmation, alongside Mitch’s Alaskan agent, Lisa Murkowski, and the Arlen Specter splinter faction member, Susan Collins. They did so with the full permission of Mendacious Mitch, and with the cover distraction of posturing conservatives like Senators Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn, and Ted Cruz.
There were at least three currently active leftist judges matching the Biden regime’s additional screening criteria: African American AND Woman. Never mind the trans-agenda “problematization” of “Woman.” The left understands that the real agenda is to negate Justice Clarence Thomas, providing a counter-narrative to each opinion he writes defending religious liberty or distinguishing blacks’ real civil rights struggle from the social-sexual revolution of the alphabet alliance, started by Hugh Hefner. So, the official story was that three women were interviewed for the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy caused by Stephen Breyer’s pending retirement at the end of this Supreme Court term in June.
. . . D.C. Circuit Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger, and South Carolina District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs. …
Ketanji Brown Jackson
The 51-year-old judge has been rumored to be the President’s top choice since she was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit last year.
Having served as a D.C. district judge since 2013, Jackson was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to the Circuit Court in June 2021 by a vote of 53-44, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina voting in her favor. …
From 2007 to 2013, [Leondra] Kruger served as an assistant to the United States solicitor general and the acting principal deputy solicitor general, arguing 12 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including a high-profile religious rights case in which the court ruled against the Obama Administration. Kruger then joined the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, where she helped strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned same-sex marriage, and uphold the Affordable Care Act.
In 2014, California Gov. Jerry Brown named Kruger to the California Supreme Court when she was 38 years old. In her seven years on the bench, Kruger has developed a reputation as an attentive incrementalist, telling the Los Angeles Times in 2018 that she strives to perform her job in a way that “enhances the predictability and stability of the law and public confidence and trust in the work of the courts.” …
Judge J. Michelle Childs, who serves on the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, has powerful allies within the Beltway.
South Carolina Democrat Rep. Jim Clyburn has been openly campaigning for Childs’ nomination, telling Axios that he’s been advocating for Childs to the White House for the past six months—long before Breyer’s retirement was even announced. Childs, 55, also has earned plaudits from South Carolina Republican Sen. Graham, who sits on the Judiciary Committee. Graham told reporters on Feb. 2 that Childs is “somebody I could see myself supporting.” He warned that if Biden’s pick isn’t Childs, it could be “much more problematic.”
A senior statesman of the civil rights movement actively promoted a candidate for nomination, and her name was Childs, not Jackson. This candidate already had one senior Republican on board, so was sure to get “bi-partisan” confirmation. Rep. Clyburn delivered the southern states’ Democratic Party primary elections to Biden when he was feeling the Bern. Childs would seem to have been the best choice. Instead, the regime nominated a woman who spent her entire legal career, starting in law school, promoted leniency for a class of sex offenders against children. There could hardly be a more in-your-face nominee for lifetime tenure on the highest court in our land.
The Republicans, supposedly led by Mitch McConnell, were handed a golden opportunity to show they really stood for something about which ordinary Americans of every region and demographic care. They knew there was a massive popular movement against the radical sexualization of children by school officials. McConnell had a clear opportunity to score a win, forcing the Biden regime to withdraw a sexual politics radical candidate, replacing her with the preferred candidate of black leaders in Congress. Instead, Mendacious Mitch signaled surrender from the very beginning.
Faced with this planned failure of leadership, younger conservative Senators had the choice of mere rhetorical posturing or leading up. Hawley, Cruz, and Blackburn could have gone to the Senate floor and called out any senator who dared support Judge Jackson for normalizing her radical views on a class of sex crimes against children. In 1987, Judge Douglas Ginsburg, no relation to RBG, was forced to withdraw from nomination to the Supreme Court over personal marijuana use and reports that his wife, as a medical student, had participated in performing two abortions. Ketanji Brown Jackson’s career-long pattern of support for a class of offenders against children would seem to be the easiest possible case for forcing a nomination withdrawal or open defeat, as every Democratic senator facing the voters this year could foresee the political hit pieces running in the general election. It would have been an easily understood case for changing nominees.
Instead, Hawley and Blackburn settled for fundraising video clips and Cruz monetized his fake opposition with his podcast side hustle. The fake fight and the preemptive surrender on the Supreme Court nomination campaign reminds us of the disgraceful conduct of Republican congressional majorities after passage of Obamacare, and their long sabotage of our national sovereignty through perennial subversion of effective immigration control. McConnell even used the planned surrender on Judge Jackson’s nomination to promote his own return to power, claiming court nominees would be less radical if voters would just return Republicans to the Senate majority.
Yet, how radical could Jackson be if three Republican senators in good standing with McConnell voted to confirm her, with not a word from McConnell against Murkowski, Romney, or Collins? Why won’t they do the same again with every Democrat regime nominee, even if voters give Republicans a three-seat majority? So, we know that there will be no real opposition, no consequential legislative victories against the regime, if we allow the current crew of incumbent “leadership” to keep power through their preferred candidates in the primaries and the general election.
Published in Law
Sounds like a great book title for a treatise on contemporary politics.
Again, Justice Jackson’s sentencing is unremarkable, completely consistent with current law and practice.
And? That was actually the least of the problems with her. Tell me why it’s okay to have a Supreme Court Justice who doesn’t believe in natural rights, which are the entire basis we have for our freedoms?
I’d prefer “How dare you notice we’re lying?”
I’m disappointed at the number of people I’ve heard say that rights come from the state. When I quoted the Declaration to a Stanford Ph. D. who claimed that rights come from the state, his response was, “Well, I dispute that.”
You are just digging a deeper hole because you cannot admit that you were dead wrong, instead you make excuses. You cannot continue to argue anything after such an egregious blunder because you lose credibility.
You didn’t give Hawley any benefit of the doubt whatsoever. You didn’t even bother to look up whether or not he introduced legislation to curb child pornography, you just made it up out of thin air.
Yes, I can imagine. It would be a joke. Clarence Thomas never sexually harassed anyone, and Brett Kavanaugh never raped anybody. Keep digging.
I looked it up at the time he was smearing Judge Jackson.
Judge Jackson never enabled a pedophile either.
And it was wrong to attack her as a pedophile enabler on this basis.
Whether of not there are other reasons to oppose her nomination doesn’t justify that attack.
Also, a very interesting article on the different conservative or originalist views on how natural law fits into our jurisprudence, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/two-kinds-of-originalism
I suppose that would be a matter of opinion. I’m done.