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44 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Of course.  I don't remember your similar concern that that Kavanagh or Coney Barrett might not have been the best of the best. Maybe you've just developed that standard...for both choosing justices or critiquing public speaking, that must be the reason for the obvious difference.

I do remember your concern for those things back then, that seem to be absent now.

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Jonathan Turley, JD , above mentioned The Hill opinion article author, is a conservative lawyer who was a Republican witness at both Trump impeachment trials.  Other conservative justices and lawyers feel Judge Brown Jackson's a candidate who is "eminently qualified to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States."

She completed 3 clerkships -last for Justice Bryer; served as a district judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for over 10 yrs.; was an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C. (where she handled cases before U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ) and was vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014.   With such breath and depth of experience, vastly qualified for the Supreme Court in many law circles.

CNN 3/1/2022Another top conservative lawyer backs Jackson as White House pushes her Supreme

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Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is receiving another major endorsement from a prominent Republican on Tuesday, this time a lawyer who represented President Donald Trump's former White House counsel, Donald McGahn, among other former Trump White House officials.

Lawyer William Burck, in a statement obtained exclusively by CNN, said of Jackson that "no serious person can question her qualifications to the Court and to my mind her judicial philosophy is well within the mainstream."

Burck's statement comes in the wake of similar endorsements by retired conservative judges J. Michael Luttig and Thomas B. Griffith, Republican appointees, who both sat on federal appeals courts. Their messages run contrary to some heated comments made by Republicans on the hill after President Joe Biden announced his pick last Friday ....

 

Prominent conservative judge J. Michael Luttig who advised Pence on the 2020 election endorses Biden's Supreme Court nominee

Luttig letter endorsing Judge Jackson for Supreme Court

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is eminently qualified to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Indeed, she is as highly credentialed and experienced in the law as any nominee in history, having graduated from the Harvard Law School with honors, clerked at the Supreme Court, and served as a Federal Judge for almost a decade.

Republicans and Democrats alike should give their studied advice — and then their consent — to the President’s nomination. Republicans, in particular, should vote to confirm Judge Jackson.

Republicans prematurely judged President Biden’s nominee when the President first announced he would nominate a black woman to the vacancy created by Justice Breyer’s retirement. The President knew at the time that there were any number of highly qualified black women on the lower federal courts from among whom he could choose -- including Judge Jackson -- and Republicans should have known that the President would nominate one of those supremely qualified black women to succeed Justice Breyer...

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Beerman said:

I do remember your concern for those things back then, that seem to be absent now.

When there are credible concerns elevated about this candidate, I'll be concerned.  Right now there's only partisan rhetoric that's not even particularly compelling.  That seems to be adequate to titillate a surprising number of conservatives on the subject.

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In what universe is there any definition of the "best of the best?"  How does that work?  We've had 3 Republican lackeys assigned to Scotus during the last administration.  Obviously, "best of the best" is not a Republican construct.  The best candidate is the one who's political leanings can't be deciphered because they are there to interpret the law, not proselytize for their political ideology.  I know, I know.  That would make the hearing so BORING to questioners looking for click bait,  but that's how it should be.

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4 hours ago, subee said:

... The best candidate is the one who's political leanings can't be deciphered because they are there to interpret the law, not proselytize for their political ideology. ...

And when have we had such a candidate?

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1 hour ago, chare said:

And when have we had such a candidate?

Merrick Garland? 

 

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4 hours ago, chare said:

And when have we had such a candidate?

David Souter, Sandra Day O'Connor.  Quick!  In 2 seconds, can you remember what party they were ?  Since Trump couldn't recognize integrity as a desirable trait, he picked hacks who would bow to the most extreme right win of the party.  We've had plenty of moderate justices who's decisions weren't so predictable.  Wild cards are a good thing!

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Here's a good opinion piece on the idea that "this never would have happened under Trump".  

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The truth is that during his administration, Trump’s policy alignment with Putin advanced the aims of Russia’s political elites, who could imagine that the United States was on their side. Their comfort with Trump was evident from the start

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/02/putin-invade-ukraine-trump-00012897

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Because heckling during a SOTU address is appropriate.  I can understand being silent, sitting down, or even ripping up your copy of his speech, but heckling.  Oh wait consider the source and like the WH says, it says more about them than anything.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/gop-reps-greene-boebert-heckle-biden-throughout-sotu-address-n1290558

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53 minutes ago, Tweety said:

Because heckling during a SOTU address is appropriate.  I can understand being silent, sitting down, or even ripping up your copy of his speech, but heckling.  Oh wait consider the source and like the WH says, it says more about them than anything.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/gop-reps-greene-boebert-heckle-biden-throughout-sotu-address-n1290558

We watched the address, as we usually do.  Biden seemed to be looking for agreement.  

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3 hours ago, Tweety said:

Because heckling during a SOTU address is appropriate.  I can understand being silent, sitting down, or even ripping up your copy of his speech, but heckling.  Oh wait consider the source and like the WH says, it says more about them than anything.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/gop-reps-greene-boebert-heckle-biden-throughout-sotu-address-n1290558

I agree somewhat, heckling was out of line.  But, ripping up the speech,  while the Speaker and right behind the President was just as bad.

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1 minute ago, Beerman said:

I agree somewhat, heckling was out of line.  But, ripping up the speech,  while the Speaker and right behind the President was just as bad.

And, although I don't agree with the tactic, Boebert is fearless, and her actions are effective.  That scares the crap out of liberals.

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