Senator Whitehouse lays it all out or: How to hide the Court Packing
This is what I believe Eric Kramer is asking for. If we are ever going to fix the justice system and ultimately this nation, what Senator Whitehouse presented today needs to be internalized by everyone.
Yes, ACA, abortion, gay marriage. They are major issue, I have a stake in 2 of them. But – a big ass BUT – the real game is the machine that has been operating for a very long time and honed to a run as smooth as a screaming F1 engine. And it’s screaming. Senator Whitehouse has just educated everyone on the engineering of this engine.
It is reverting. It should be all over the news. It should be what the Democratic party et al start pounding during these final weeks of campaigning. It is the real court packing that has been happening. Note in this presentation the Republican Congress men that signed court briefs written for them as if they did it out of their own conscience.
And, has Senator Whitehouse notes, this was just the ground work for his questioning of her tomorrow.
Did I see a hint of shame in Barrett’s face?
Fox news headline:
Dem uses question time in Barrett hearing to suggest ‘dark money’ ‘scheme’ behind court’s 5-4 decisions
Mother Jones headline:
Watch Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse School Amy Coney Barrett on Dark Money
No, there was no hint of shame on Barrett’s face. She is a Stepford Judge. She has only an ideology that controls everything she says, does and does not feel. Imagine an educated person in 2020 that has no “firm views” on climate change.
She is Borg.
Why should a judge’s view on climate change interest the Senate? Congress could impose a $8/gallon gas tax and equivalent on other carbon fuels tomorrow if it really wanted to kickstart a conversion of US energy consumption patterns. I have the sense that a bigger worry is a court that tells the executive no more rules that act as laws, because law making is for Congress.
geez
Yeah, the Supreme Court has never, ever ruled on regulations placed on corporations.
Exxon is a corporation.
Why?
Here’s why.
“Legal experts say Barrett’s academic writings indicate that she might favor a limited role for agencies like EPA in regulating emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change (Greenwire, Sept. 19).
During Barrett’s brief time in private practice, she was part of the team that represented President George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore (E&E Daily, Sept. 7, 2017).
Originally from New Orleans, Barrett has family ties to the oil industry.
Her father was an attorney for Shell Oil Co., and Jesse Barrett, her husband, has “advised a petroleum producer in a regulatory proceeding concerning allocation of proceeds from the Alaskan oil pipeline,” according to SouthBank Legal, the law firm where he works. Jesse Barrett was also a former federal prosecutor.”
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063714449
And here’s why.
“Those words are sure to echo through the Senate in the weeks ahead as lawmakers consider President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court. They are Exhibit A for those who argue that Barrett’s elevation to the high court puts at risk the Supreme Court’s seminal reproductive rights ruling, Roe v. Wade.
But advocates of climate action are focused on another landmark ruling they fear is in danger due to the deep stamp Trump is seeking to put on the court before he faces voters this fall. Environmental law scholars believe that with Barrett on the bench, there will be little remaining support on the nation’s highest court for upholding what is arguably its most important environmental ruling—Massachusetts v. the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29092020/amy-coney-barrett
EMichael:
The same person encourages opening up schools and other places while there new covid case load in Wisconsin has skyrocketed surpassing that of Florida. Same land mass in square miles and 25% of the population of Florida.
EMichael,
I believe you are correct, she is a borg.
I have seen no one else comment on it, but the way she was dressed yesterday suggest just much about her. The dress did not even fit. Frankly looked like a burlap bag.
That lady has a mean streak behind her image.
DB,
Honestly, I can almost here her say, “You will be assimilated.”
@DB,
I like your wind her up tactic that you suggested in comments on later thread. If she drops her guard and sings and dances from her “heart,” then that would be ten times better than trying to back her into a corner We want her more revealing and absent any sympathetic appearances.
I will be honest I have not been following the hearings carefully. As Graham said at the outset the outcome is preordained and the hearings are pure political theater. I know it is sexist and I apologize but I also can not stand Barrett’s voice—she sounds like a teenage girl. The Dems are doing their best to make the GOP Senators pay politically for their perfidy and it is nice to see Whitehouse at least try and educate the masses to the scam which every lawyer has known since law school if not before— it is all about the big money interests. The only ideology that ultimately matters is raw capitalism. I am curious whether any of the Dems have inquired about how Barrett feels about being the catalyst for the further denigration of SCOTUS. Sort of playing defense if the Dems do end up expanding the Court. I remain hopeful that if Biden wins and the Dems take the Senate that Roberts and the big money will make Thomas an offer he can not refuse and we will be back to where we were when Scalia unexpectedly died. Not a good place but one which preserves SCOTUS as an institution deserving of some respect and saves the Dems from putting the final nail in the coffin that Moscow Mitch built.
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~~Daniel Becker~
partial birth abortion is no different than first degree murder. what is the best way to put a stop to a large percentage of abortions?
vasectomy! we should pressure the government to give out free vasectomies to anybody who wants one. vasectomy is a very tiny amount of surgery and shouldn’t cost more than a hundred bucks and it should be available free to anyone who wants. vasectomy is the cheapest way to prevent murder? learn to be humane, politicians!
Tusen Takk
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Justin:
Daniel is a doctor. Just so you know.
whoops! I thought Daniel Becker was from the Sierra Club. I made the wrong assumption. so sorry!
Justin:
Puzzled by the response. I could go either way with it. My comment was to point out you could have a good discussion on medical procedure.