Senate Confirms Amy C. Barrett for SCOTUS
Submitted by wendy davis on Mon, 10/26/2020 - 8:36pm
From thehill.com:
The 52-48 Senate vote on Barrett's nomination capped off a rare presidential election year Supreme Court fight sparked by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 18. GOP Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was the only Republican to oppose Barrett, saying she doesn’t believe a nomination should come up before the election.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who previously voted against advancing Barrett because of the election, supported her nomination on Monday. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) returned from the campaign trail to oppose Barrett's nomination.
Justice 'Long Dong' Clarence Thomas is expected to give Barrett the constitution oath as an associate justice on the Supreme Court at 9 p.m. at the White House. Chief Justice John Roberts will administer her judicial oath at the high court on Tuesday.
See you in the morning.
Comments
Given that Thomas never speaks
How did he perform the oath of office?
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Clarence Thomas speaks.
He spoke just fine when called upon to do so. Besides, that speaking, with words specified by law, required no thinking, just gas-blowing.
You're thinking of Teller, of "Penn and Teller" fame. Who would be a far better Justice than either Barrett or Thomas.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
hadda come back:
i knew he'd have it up. ; )
Collins is hoping that her no vote
will get her another Senate term. It won't.
Let's hope that more parts of McConnell's body turn black.
As black as his heart!
Or rather his blood pump. He doesn't have a "heart" in the title sense.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Of course he has a heart
he keeps it in a phylactery on the mantle. Make sure to destroy it too or he'll just respawn.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Collins only votes with Democrats
I was going to say...
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
i don't understand this
reference:
i haven't kept up on how vulnerable lindsey graham and mcConnell are, but for my money i'd rather see mitch consigned to the Dustbin of History.
oh, and as for murkowski, i went back to the hill to fetch this separate article:
does the part i've bolded mean...anything?
Here you go:
Mitch McConnell hands
Also his face - some of it covered with make-up.
good grief, almost more blue
than black, and only on the right side. vascular? but band-aids? well, thanks for the heads-up, anyway...he wasn't in a minstrel show. ; )
The only 'reliance' that matters
...is Reliance on Fundamental Human Rights. In other words:
.
In the US, does a Human Being have complete control over their own body? Or can Humans be forced by the State to use their bodies to serve the interests or needs of another entity?
.
Can their bodies be used — against their will — for harvesting organs, tissue, or blood? Can the body of an unwilling Human be captured and immobilized by the State and used to provide temporary or permanent life support to another person? Can the body of a Human Being be cultivated like a farm — against their will — to grow other organisms for later harvest? Can an unwilling Human Being be forced by the State to use their body as livestock, to reproduce another human being?
Or, is the body of a Human Being the sovereign property of that person?
The answer is either Yes or No. And since the State can murder citizens as punishment for crimes, then Human Beings do not have a right to their own lives in the US. This is a key violation of Human Rights. It is a disgrace to willingly live in such a country.
Roe vs. Wade does not covey or confirm "women's rights" or the Rights of Human Beings. It is a forced technical error that gave women agency over their bodies without declaring that women had legal Rights. It is just another piece of revokable fake legislation executed by the unaccountable Supreme Court to trick gullible People into thinking they are free and have inalienable Rights that supersede man-made laws. The Roe vs. Wade decision was randomly pegged to the Fourth Amendment — the Right to Privacy — which was revoked by fiat during Neocon Wars for Empire in the Middle East. A revokable Bill of Rights is worthless to the People. The First Amendment is being revoked before our eyes via the slow murder of Julian Assange. The bogus Roe vs. Wade decision should be overthrown if only to open People's eyes to the Slave-Owners Constitution that exploits their labor and denies their Human Rights.
The US ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 at the UN General Assembly in Paris. The vote was unanimous among all nations. But until the United States is forced to incorporate these Human Rights into its obsolete colonial Constitution, neither men nor women in the United States will achieve even the most basic Human Rights — Rights that they currently denied.
There are few people in the world who would lift a finger to help Americans gain Human Rights in their own nation. As the US wages illegal wars around the world resulting in enormous human suffering, the American people utter not one word of protest over these war crimes that they are funding. The US was forced to resign from the UN Human Rights Council this year because they are one of the world's leading offenders against the Rights of Human Beings. The US has made a mockery of Human Rights, globally, and undermined the concept of Individual and social Sovereignty that they are based upon.
The American People will not demand Human Rights for themselves. They are too lost in the lies and propaganda that is forced on them. The brain-damaged Americans will surely shoot each other, but the US will not fight a Civil War because the People don't know what they are fighting for or who they are supposed to kill to make America Great Again. They can't think.
[Edited.]
now that's some excellent
subversive and uncommon thought, my friend. i like it, even though i'll need to read it a few more times to let it sink in.
case in point: it's often posited, and i'd seen it as recently at RT.com if alleged biological fathers don't have a legal right to stop pregnancy terminations. #BodyFarms, aka: the handmaids' tale.
but i doubt it's what murkowski'd been pinging about barrett. ; )
My thinking is not uncommon in my time-space.
But I am obviously out of sync with the commonly-shared time-space reality. It's a personal defect that the Internet amplifies. I'm hoping that if I live long enough, I will eclipse my Cassandra self and the two time-spaces may finally sync up. It seems to be getting a lot closer that it used to be.
To me, this is a positive development — it's an adversity that can help evolve more enlightened pattern recognition leading to less dumbness. If nothing else, over-reach always exposes the psychopaths and the forces of evil that use them as tools. On another note: People should pretend they are living inside their utopian dream, the way children do, if only for a few minutes each day. It increases the realm of possibilities for everyone.
As for reproduction issues, men are denied far more rights than woman, key rights that most people have never even conceived of. But I try to keep my [r]evolutionary views buried in the comments of worthwhile essays, in recent years. Less disruption for everyone, especially for those who have not booked passage for such a voyage.
Murkowski's fantasies violate the FIRST PRINCIPLE of Human Rights. She is an agent of de-evolution. The hook came out and dragged her offstage years ago, as far as the Universe is concerned.
you do seem to breathe rarefied
air, amiga. i'm glad you shared some of what you see and know...intuitively (?) by way of your space-time spaces beginning to mesh.
wish i could keep up with you, but i will offer that i live in a major time warp due to some brain damage, including sequential time, as in: what came before this or that order.
as far a utopia, mr. wd and i created one where we live, and the hundreds of trees, birds, and four-leggeds help daily to ward off panic of the concerns of the day we see so often online, and remain at least a bit more philosophical. i'll admit though, i'm vexed with the bears that climb the apple and plum trees and break major branches, yet deign to eat the fruit on the ground. ; )
sorry to have been so long, but my walmart cheaters broke, and i was unable to glue them back together, and am using some funky, scratchy, weaker ones that are in danger of coming apart as well.
but more seriously, my vision of heading 'toward utopia' would be an end to capitalism, empire, and actually trying democracy; not the kind that amerikan foreign policy and war...export.
you might want to watch the video i'd posted the other day: ‘Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine’ from Class War Films, March 12, 2012
(23 minutes, & even more relevant now than then)
‘A brief and crucial alternative history of the United States. FULL MANIFESTO:
best heart to you, Pluto's Republic.
Well, we got us a brilliant
Christian Thinker. Who needs actual legal eagles on the Supreme Court? The dumber, the better, for TPTB.
We are on the verge of a Theocracy. Get your Bibles out and ready to thump.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Now taking bets
This shit is bananas.
Sounds about right.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
We'll see if my hypothesis bears out
https://caucus99percent.com/comment/506711#comment-506711
Bear in mind, for what it's worth: If Roe V Wade WERE overturned, it wouldn't REALLY be like the fundie fantasy of no more abortions ever - it would return to being a "states' rights" issue, and even then, only the poor would be truly SOL. Maybe this is a Catholic conspiracy to generate staff for tomorrow's burgeoning monasteries and nunneries (and then, just wait for the Know-Nothing Party to make its triumphant return!)...?
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
yep; stir in barrett to
the mix when fundie Xianists Pence and erik prince's sister betsy deVos as education secretary...and we're almost there. unwinding her [on edit: publicly funded] religious charter schools...how, when?
as far as Roe v. Wade being 'settled law', margaret atwood always asked: 'Wanna bet?'
dang, it's cold here in SW colorado: the glass says 10 degrees brrrrr, and it's not even halloween.
I bet that if anyone could find Nancy’s quiver
it’d still be full of arrows. When she was asked how she would stop Barrett she said that she has a lot of arrows in her quiver. Schumer told McConnell that he would never get his credibility back and that democrats won’t forget what he’s done. I’m betting McConnell is quivering in his boots.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Where have we heard that before?
This shit is bananas.
Same shit. Different day. 2020
fify
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Giant Meteor 2020!
got me laughing, but also reminded me that mr. wd had told me that literally overnight, these lawn signs had sprouted up mightily like mushrooms on the paved streets in our town of perhaps population 1100; my Qs to you and the room at large: have you seen them, while noting that they sell for $20-$30 (even available on amazon!), and do you have any guess what they signify?
a side note: now in our town, many folks are Ds; the Rs are the very wealthy outside town.
this link i'd found says:
Democrats Loser Theater
I'd have respected them a bit more if they admitted that fact up front and spared us their bullshit.
I'd respect them even more if they'd fought to get power in the meticulous way that the GOP has. The GOP filled every position in their districts from School Board to dog catcher with like-minded folks. The Dems barely bothered to even provide candidates for Congressional seats.
we are living in the results of their laziness and carelessness.
NYCVG
CIA spooks
That's what we get for candidates. rammed down the locals' throats.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
great metaphor, lol:
come on, snoop! the Ds boycotted the senate judiciary nominating hearing and put up photos of those who will die without ObombaDontCare in their chairs!
that was quite a Piercing Arrow Schumer Shot!
The vote was a mere formality.
The democrats opposition was pretty well non existent. But that is what you get from republicans lite.
hadn't DiFi chanted earlier
(perhaps at the senate judiciary committee?) that miz barret is a lovely person?
anyhoo, patrick martin has this to say about Long Dong Silver this a.m.:
he's added these paragraphs among many others, although i'm not positive that he's correct about who he believes 'globalists' to be, and a couple other assertions:
We can thank Joe Biden
whoooosh; glad ya vented,
then, amiga. among my zillion other about gropin' dementia joe gripes, i'm still goin' crazy at this one;
which reminded me of both : Kushner: Black Americans have to 'want to be successful', Marty Johnson - 10/26/20, the hill
and this 'born-before- his-time' R Cobb cartoon:
Watchmakers embed tiny hard jewels
...at the pivot points where gears turn and springs push. On ordinary metal these pivot points will eventually wear out, wear through, and fail. But a classic Swiss-made, 17-jeweled watch will run even longer than a human lifespan.
That cartoon represents one of those jeweled pivot points. They are the magic slogan words chanted by psychopaths, who keep the dystopian nightmare in place for the benefit of the Ruling Class and their corrupt political servants.
reply pt. II &
file under: even a dim bulb lights once in a while. from the NYT piece on anita hill's testimony i'd linked (and had borrowed the newspaper 'art' at the top of the OP:
did he feel a wee tingle down his leg like chris matthews had over sarah palin?? small wonder he became a groper and a digital-rapist in the end.
unqualified
I recently watched the movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; the premise is basically, What if the Civil War were also about stopping vampires from taking over the country? I think the vampires won. Many of the assholes have been around forever and they're sucking the life out of the American people.
This shit is bananas.
The Dems had several opportunities to slow things down...
DAVID SIROTA: Well, the Democrats have a lot of options in terms of grinding the Senate business to a halt as a whole. The Senate runs on a system of unanimous consent, which means that each senator says the normal, regular business of the day can happen. And each senator could object to that. They can demand the enforcement of rules about committee hearings. I mean, there is no filibuster on judges anymore, but there are still parliamentary procedures to slow things down.
They chose not to.
There is no one in the congress who will take a stand on anything by using the weapons right in front of their noses. And now Bernie is just a whisper in the wind.
Saying we are screwed doesn't even begin to describe the political situation this country is in.
"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin