Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

Watching CSPAN. I am now a fan of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. I pray the Senate just performs its role in providing advice and consent.

No more partisan character assassination please

 

Oh she will be fine. I just wish she wasn't another damned Harvard Law grad. A very small group of law schools have a near death grip on the nation's legal education system and high federal office and that's unhealthy for the democracy.

 

You mean -- like Barack and Michelle Obama? I liked them both. Still do.

Could it possibly be because they're the best? Just asking - I have no horse in this.
BTW - I just read up a bit about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. I'm very impressed.

 

There's little doubt that Harvard Law school is at least near the best. I would say it is very similar to Universities in general. Some schools are definitely better than others. I would argue though that the graduates of top tier schools are probably not all better than graduates from schools that have an almost as good of a reputation. It is just the way it works. It arguably would be nice to see some highly qualified candidates chosen from some of these other schools.

I'm speaking in general here. I have no intent on implying that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is not very qualified and an excellent choice.

 

My loud and repeated objection is that Harvard Law and a very few others crearted for themselves and enforce for themselves a dangerous monopoly and they do it through the purest kind of discrimination; the Old School Tie.

 

Lindsey Graham Says He Will Vote Against Ketanji Brown Jackson's SCOTUS Nomination (businessinsider.com)

"My decision is based upon her record of judicial activism, flawed sentencing methodology regarding child-pornography cases, and a belief Judge Jackson will not be deterred by the plain meaning of the law when it comes to liberal causes. "

Someone tell me how the contemporary GOP is not completely without redeeming qualities. I just don't see it.

 

Neither do I. But I'm sure you can easily find some pathological liars somewhere who will be eager to tell you.

 

I find it very sad to the point of frightening sometimes that the vast majority of the Republican party believes Trump's Big Lie. This penchant for lying has really become a defining quality of the current Republican party.

 

Possibly the penchant for being fanatical believers is even more dangerous than the marked tendency toward pathological lying.
I remember a joke-shop that used to sell cans of fake "Anti-Bullshit Spray." We need the real thing. Tons of it.

 

Yep - Charybdis & Scylla. And that's not a law partnership.

 

There's this global view that "my party" is honest and accommodating to compromise. This applies to both sides. It is part of human nature, I think. I'm fully aware of this. I'll not argue that the Democratic party is without fault.

Something has fundamentally changed in the GOP though. We can argue about what the cause it. Some say that it is Trump. I believe though that it has roots in the old GOP attacks against the media. This was fully embraced by Fox News. Fox News's line being essentially you can only trust us. This lead to a majority in the GOP base dismissing the more middle of the road media sources, CBS, NBC, and ABC. Now admittedly the far left has MSNBC and CNN which is similar to Fox only skewed to the left rather than the right. However, the left is much more likely to also get some of their news from the more moderate CBS, NBC, and ABC than the GOP. This has a tendency I believe to keep the left in general a little more grounded in reality. Then what happened is that Trump came along and utilized this situation to strongly pressure Fox to start pushing his pathological lies. Newsmax and OANN then came along and aggressively pushed the whole mess even further to the right and less in touch with reality. The lie that perfectly exemplifies this current situation where the GOP is being detached from reality is Trump's Big Lie about Biden stealing the election.

 

Oh yes, if only the Democrats were gentler to fine folks who believe that Democrats are the members of a murderous Satanic cult of pedophile rapists. Which is, you know, not just a real belief, but the very same tune formerly reputable Sen. Graham dog whistle is playing to.
If you want political correctness, there is only one side for which it is even a notion. And that's not GOP. As I said, no redeeming value.

 

I admit I can't pretend to be impartial, being on record here as a HRC fan. But I can't imagine anyone making this statement here with a straight face. It makes literally less sense than Trump fandom; at least their delusion can be somewhat internally consistent.

On Mr. Biden: during the campaign, I believed any candidate on the Dem side (other than Gabbard, Bloomberg, and Bernie Sanders) would have been a better choice. They are younger and more talented. But I see now that Biden might have been the right choice, for our times.

This is a Fox talking point, so oversimplified and out of context as to be a complete slander. There are better ways to be impartial.

 

Statement 1: Earth is flat
Statement 2: Earth is a sphere
Statement 3: Statements 1 and 2 are both false, truth is unknowable.

Technically, all 3 statements are wrong. However, 2 and even 1 yield a useful model of the world, while 3 is useless garbage. There are ways of "being above the fray" that are akin to statement 3. You can look up Isaac Azimov's essay on "relativity of wrong" for a better stab at this argument.