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Jan. 6 panel to vote to hold former Trump aides Navarro, Scavino in contempt

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/jan-6-committee-trump-navarro-scavino-contempt-congress/

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Last month, the committee subpoenaed Navarro, who has written and publicly discussed the effort to develop a strategy to delay or overturn certification of the 2020 election. In a statement to Politico Thursday, Navarro called the committee’s impending contempt vote “an unprecedented partisan assault on executive privilege” and continued claiming executive privilege.

“Until this matter has been settled at the Supreme Court, where it is inevitably headed, the Committee should cease its tactic of harassment and intimidation,” Navarro told Politico. “I would be happy to cooperate with the committee in expediting a review of this matter by the Supreme Court and look forward to arguing the case.”

That last sentence makes it sound like Mr Navarro thinks he might be arguing the case in front of the Supreme Court.  What he has been doing is arguing that his "Green Bay Sweep" plan to overthrow the 2020 election is not a reason for concern and isn't really a matter of executive privilege, since he can speak freely about it in public. 

 

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It’s Pride Week in Austin schools. The Texas AG says that’s illegal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/24/ken-paxton-austin-isd-pride/

Attorney General Paxton believes that laws apply to other people but not him...

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1 hour ago, subee said:

So McConnell wants a rigid idealogue so that we can predict all the decisions in advance?

Perhaps. Senators want someone that will advance their agenda by law. So it's not surprising.  This is why they all for my lifetime have been questioned on abortion.  Often the justices support the law in practice and it disappoints politicians.  Democrats did not support any of the justices Trump put through and often the minority parties don't approve justices.   

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41 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

It’s Pride Week in Austin schools. The Texas AG says that’s illegal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/24/ken-paxton-austin-isd-pride/

Attorney General Paxton believes that laws apply to other people but not him...

This is really sad.  I was outed when I was 17 (long story but it was an adult that saw me with gay friends that did it) and was mercilessly bullied and was told by the principal it was my fault because I acted gay and deserved to be bullied.  His advice to stop the bullying was to assimilate and act more masculine.   It was a teacher sent me to the principal when in her classroom out loud she heard me being called a slur.  She said nothing but sent me to the principals office.  

The bullying of my peers and the lack of support from teachers and adults affected me my entire adult life.  I left high school depressed, with extremely low self-esteem and and no social skills, and no close relationships.  Took many years, a lot of drinking,  and a couple of rounds of therapy to find some peace of mind.

Fast forward to today, I'd never dream that LGBT students would be able to come out easily with the support of fellow students and administration.  

Support of adults makes all the difference in LGBT students wellbeing.  It literally is a life and death situation as suicide rates are high in these kids.

While I'm not surprised because people feel that making kids comfortable and celebrating pride is "pushing the homosexual agenda". I'm sad for today's LGBT students that just want to be themselves being part of this battleground.  I want it better for them than I had and others want to "make America great again" or "take back America" by going backwards.  

Heterosexuals have lost every battle against gay people in employment, marriage, adoption, and public opinion.  Public opinion and support for gay people went all the way to the President and is very high.  I know at our Pride here that draws 250,000 people heterosexuals almost outnumber the gay people there.

The even lost some ground on the religious front but they are going after the one area they know they might prevail.  Children.  In their unfounded efforts to protect their children from indoctrination they are harming LGBT students. 

 

 

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42 minutes ago, Tweety said:

Perhaps. Senators want someone that will advance their agenda by law. So it's not surprising.  This is why they all for my lifetime have been questioned on abortion.  Often the justices support the law in practice and it disappoints politicians.  Democrats did not support any of the justices Trump put through and often the minority parties don't approve justices.   

Given that Gorsuch was a stolen nomination, Kavanaugh wasn't even considered qualified by the ABA as well as having obvious character and emotional weaknesses that should be disqualifying and Coney-Barrett was rushed through during an election where the nominating executive was fired even though she had very limited experience in the actual practice of law; it's not surprising that Democrats didn't approve of the candidates that were chosen by the Federalist Society.

Why is it that republicans don't like this nominee? Hell, those republicans enjoy a voting base who simply believe that this judge isn't even minimally qualified...they cannot even guess at what qualifies her...aeb remarks in this thread. They are expected to vote against her by the inflamed base who will call the few Republicans who do vote for her, rinos. Wait for it.  

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15 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Why is it that republicans don't like this nominee? 

First of all they don't like that all candidates we not considered, just African-American women.  

Another I think is the obvious, she's a Biden nominee and thus one that is a liberal activist judge who isn't conservative.  All things Biden are to be criticized and not supported.

Others offer other opinions.

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On the second day of her historic confirmation hearing, Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman named to the Supreme Court, faced her own antagonists and skeptics in the U.S. Senate, all of them Republican, who otherwise had very little to say about her credentials, qualifications, or legal acumen—the actual requirements to reach the pinnacle of American law. Instead, as happened more than 50 years ago, their chief interest was crime—more specifically, how she defended, sentenced, or dealt with people accused or convicted of various criminal offenses. Their line of attack, apparent for all to see, is that doing any work with people who are criminally accused, let alone chipping away at any aspect of our nation’s bloated carceral state—which disproportionately impacts communities of color—is a bad thing. 

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/the-truth-behind-republicans-vile-questioning-of-ketanji-brown-jackson

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45 minutes ago, Tweety said:

First of all they don't like that all candidates we not considered, just African-American women.  

Another I think is the obvious, she's a Biden nominee and thus one that is a liberal activist judge who isn't conservative.  All things Biden are to be criticized and not supported.

Others offer other opinions.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/the-truth-behind-republicans-vile-questioning-of-ketanji-brown-jackson

Yeah...they don't like her because she wasn't chosen by a right wing group, like the Federalist Society.  They tried to make it appear that there were concerns about her sentencing habits and practices but none of that held water and made them seem petty.

It was pretty obvious when watching the hearings that the Republican concerns were little more than contrived political circus.  Some of them were embarrassing.  

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Let me also add that the only pool that candidates were drawn from was white men until 1967 (Thurgood Marshall) and from only men until 1981 (Sandra Day O'Connor). Lets not further the delusional thinking that those choices were made from all of the qualified candidates when we know that women and people of color were not even considered until my lifetime.  

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4 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Yeah...they don't like her because she wasn't chosen by a right wing group, like the Federalist Society.  They tried to make it appear that there were concerns about her sentencing habits and practices but none of that held water and made them seem petty.

It was pretty obvious when watching the hearings that the Republican concerns were little more than contrived political circus.  Some of them were embarrassing.  

I agree the scrutiny and the line of questioning was an embarrassment.  But QAnon loved it and jumped on it.

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“An apologist for child molesters,” the QAnon supporter Zak Paine declared in a video the next day, on March 17, asserting without evidence that Democrats were repeatedly “elevating pedophiles and people who can change the laws surrounding punishment” for pedophiles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/us/qanon-supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson.html

2 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Let me also add that the only pool that candidates were drawn from was white men until 1967 (Thurgood Marshall) and from only men until 1981 (Sandra Day O'Connor). Lets not further the delusional thinking that those choices were made from all of the qualified candidates when we know that women and people of color were not even considered until my lifetime.  

I don't think that Biden should have made this campaign promise.  It would have been better had he just made the announcement that she was his pick.  He was catering to the black vote when he made this promise and it wasn't necessary.  Imagine how effective it would have been for him to pick her and not giving the far right an excuse to claim reverse discrimination.  

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4 minutes ago, Tweety said:

I agree the scrutiny and the line of questioning was an embarrassment.  But QAnon loved it and jumped on it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/us/qanon-supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson.html

I don't think that Biden should have made this campaign promise.  It would have been better had he just made the announcement that she was his pick.  He was catering to the black vote when he made this promise and it wasn't necessary.  Imagine how effective it would have been for him to pick her and not giving the far right an excuse to claim reverse discrimination.  

I completely agree.  It was a good and worthwhile promise and he was willing to bear the political heat for the choice.  Bown said the other day that he was committed to doing what was right, regardless of political consequences for himself.  

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49 minutes ago, Tweety said:

I agree the scrutiny and the line of questioning was an embarrassment.  But QAnon loved it and jumped on it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/us/qanon-supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson.html

I don't think that Biden should have made this campaign promise.  It would have been better had he just made the announcement that she was his pick.  He was catering to the black vote when he made this promise and it wasn't necessary.  Imagine how effective it would have been for him to pick her and not giving the far right an excuse to claim reverse discrimination.  

You're exactly right.   It was a dumb move. 

But, he feels he needs to implement a reparation.  I've heard some on the left say things to back that up, like announcing a black woman is all he's going to choose from is "doing the right thing".  Nevermind the consequences.

This is an example of why the woke crowd gets mocked.

I don't know that I've heard of, and certainly I don't think it's reverse racism.  It's about what I said above.

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1 hour ago, Beerman said:

You're exactly right.   It was a dumb move. 

But, he feels he needs to implement a reparation.  I've heard some on the left say things to back that up, like announcing a black woman is all he's going to choose from is "doing the right thing".  Nevermind the consequences.

This is an example of why the woke crowd gets mocked.

I don't know that I've heard of, and certainly I don't think it's reverse racism.  It's about what I said above.

If you're saying "I've heard some on the left say thing to back that up" why don't you back it up?.  I'm not doubting you but I'd like to read more.  I am aware that sometimes it comes up, even financial compensation for slavery.  But not sure how this relates to Biden's picking an African American female for the Supreme Court.  

I think more people on the left are interested in representation rather than reparation.  Just an observation and I think this is what Biden is doing.

Also what are the consequences?

While not saying "reverse discrimination" Cruz early on said this 

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"Black women are what, 6 percent of the U.S. population? He's saying to 94 percent of Americans 'I don't give a damn about you, you are ineligible.'"

I do wish he hadn't made that promise just so we didn't have to hear from Cruz.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cruz-joins-republicans-slamming-bidens-vow-black-woman/story?id=82583224

After the debate he made the promise the headlines were like this " Did Biden realize his discriminatory pledge for his Supreme Court pick?"

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/487961-did-biden-realize-his-discriminatory-pledge-for-his-supreme-court-pick

and of course there was the ever present slam on affirmative action.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/29/politics/roger-wicker-supreme-court-biden-nominee-affirmative-action/index.html

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