Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer To Retire

[SoCal Deek]

9 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

Seems like a  reasonable enough explanation.  The issue politically seems to be more about derailing a nominee, bloodying them up for sport, or in extreme cases, destroying them entirely.  It’s a shame really. 
 

That case got quite a bit of coverage nationally.  Seemed like a reasonable outcome to a tragic story, and the 110 year pull seemed very unreasonable.  

Read my post above. ALL of these people are lawyers…including the Senators and many on their staff. This is what it looks like when lawyers question lawyers. It is NOT about the question!!! It  is all carefully constructed to see how she thinks on her feet and how she constructs her answers. I haven’t seen much of this but from what I’ve seen I’m not sure she’s up to the task.

[Big Blitz]

Cruz: I’m Not Voting for Jackson, Who’s Probably the First SCOTUS Nominee Who Can’t Say What a Woman Is

 

Cruz said, “Well, listen, she is probably the first Supreme Court nominee in the history of our country who is unable to answer the question, what is a woman? And her record, unfortunately, I think, is far outside the mainstream.”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/03/23/cruz-im-not-voting-for-jackson-whos-probably-the-first-scotus-nominee-who-cant-say-what-a-woman-is/

 

 

Yep.  Get her (and all the loons like her*) the hell out of here.

 

 

 

*This is up for debate whether or not she is indeed female.  

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

9 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:

Read my post above. ALL of these people are lawyers…including the Senators and many on their staff. This is what it looks like when lawyers question lawyers. It is NOT about the question!!! It  is all carefully constructed to see how she thinks on her feet and how she constructs her answers. I haven’t seen much of this but from what I’ve seen I’m not sure she’s up to the task.

Sure, there’s some of that, but there’s a tremendous amount of political theater.   The nature of questioning and behavior by some of these people would violate any basic Human Resources guideline at any private company in the country.  
 

You might be correct on her skill set, I figure it’s a forgone conclusion she’s already in.  Keep in mind, too, that while I find the game generally distasteful, and in some cases borderline criminal, it has to be played for maximum political effect. 

[BillStime]

 

[LeviF]

10 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:

 

It's just something to keep in mind when someone gets what seems to be an excessive sentence, or a far too lenient sentence. The guidelines are just that: guidelines. I can't tell you what someone like this truck driver should get in a perfectly fair world, but I can tell you there are gradations of creeps in all of the kinds of cases KJB passed sentences on. I've tried to avoid those cases because they are just too personally disturbing to me on many levels, but I have had some tangential involvement over the years. Judges try to do what's right. There's often a conflict between the individual case (a sad, creepy loser with no prior record), the judge's lack of total certainty about whether or not he may reoffend (often there's no evidence of a long pattern, but does this mean he just hasn't been caught before?) and the general idea that we need a strong deterrent to make anyone so inclined to go out looking for this stuff to think twice before he does it.  And yes, the number of images multiplies, and each one can be a separate count. It can give a prosecutor tremendous leverage in securing a plea deal conviction, something that I think is valuable in general but that everyone should agree raises some liberty concerns when prosecutors overcharge to gain that leverage. We see this in drug cases too, where everyone seemed to reach a consensus (even Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump) that maybe the scales had tilted too far in the prosecutor's favor.

 

Bottom line: sentencing is messy. There are some judges who are just too gullible, but almost all of them I've known are doing the best they can, so I give them the benefit of the doubt.

 

I understand your larger point and agree with it to a certain extent, but I can tell you that the bolded, re: child pornography, is entirely incorrect. And the example about the truck driver isn't at all analogous to a child pornography case. You can't obtain child pornography by negligence. You can't obtain child pornography by reckless disregard for your computer security. You must willingly, intentionally, and deliberately seek these things out if you want to obtain them, and it is not done easily.

 

Understand that because of our respective professions we will have some cynicism about the other's work and viewpoint. But I can tell you without a shred of doubt that every single person convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography in a federal courtroom (that is, it doesn't ordinarily fall under what many states call "sexting" statutes) should be punished as if they, themselves, raped a child.

[B-Man]

 

 

March 25, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson is a Trojan Horse

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/ketanji_brown_jackson_is_a_trojan_horse.html

 

 

 

[BillStime]

Just now, B-Man said:

 

 

March 25, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson is a Trojan Horse

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/ketanji_brown_jackson_is_a_trojan_horse.html

 

 

 

 

Will you please stop with the BS - the first thing Anony Mee talks about his HER MEMORY - lmao

 

Amy couldn't even do the easy stuff well - get out here with this garbage Bonnie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile....

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

SCOTT GERBER: The Constitution won’t interpret itself. Ketanji Brown Jackson owes us an answer on her judicial philosophy.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2022/03/25/ketanji-brown-jackson-judicial-philosophy/7152062001/

 

 

 

EASY EVEN FOR A NON-BIOLOGIST: Five (Easy?) Questions for Ketanji Brown Jackson.

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/03/24/five-easy-questions-for-ketanji-brown-jackson-n1583845

 

 

 

 

[BillsFanNC]

[SoCal Deek]

3 hours ago, BillStime said:

 

Have you ever seen the list of how many key democrats are married or related to people in the media? I’m not saying it’s right or wrong but it’s certainly not a one sided ‘problem’. It’s a tight knit circle inside the beltway. 

[BillStime]

6 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

Have you ever seen the list of how many key democrats are married or related to people in the media? I’m not saying it’s right or wrong but it’s certainly not a one sided ‘problem’. It’s a tight knit circle inside the beltway. 

 

Not even remotely comparable...

[B-Man]

 

 

ROGER SIMON: Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Big Lie to Sen. Blackburn Exposes Progressivism.

 

When Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to define the word “woman,” during Jackson’s U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, she got the response “I can’t.”

 

When Blackburn responded with an incredulous “You can’t?” Jackson replied: “Not in this context. I’m not a biologist.”

 

It takes a biologist to define “woman”? Does Jackson think we’re morons?

 

In a way, yes. Or she doesn’t care.

 

She’s a progressive, and progressives have been redefining language—English and many others—to fit their purposes dating back to the Spanish Civil War and undoubtedly earlier. 

 

Jackson very well knows what a woman is. The nominee has known this all her life, as we all have. But these days, in her part of the political world, she’s not supposed to.

 

So she lied.

 

She simply parsed her words in order not to offend a constituency that has become imbued with “transgenderitis.” By that I mean a group taking what we all know—that a small percentage of people suffer from gender dysphoria to a degree that they seek to change sexes—and extending it into absurd public policy for reasons of power and control and, ultimately, money, not to mention a completely distorted and harmful view of gender itself. (In this case, see swimmer Lia Thomas.)

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ketanji-brown-jacksons-big-lie-to-sen-blackburn-exposes-progressivism_4357459.html

 

 

[SoCal Deek]

3 minutes ago, BillStime said:

 

Not even remotely comparable...

Maybe, maybe not…I’m just saying that most people (including you and me) don’t realize the ‘information’ they swear that they know is getting severely filtered through a sieve of deeply partisan voices. 

Edited March 25, 2022 by SoCal Deek

[B-Man]

 

 

As expected.

 

 

 

[LeviF]

Ah, the rewards for deftly handling a trial in which an individual was convicted of sex trafficking women to satisfy the sexual proclivities of her boss who committed suicide in jail while the cameras were off and the guards had abandoned post and *checks notes*, well that’s odd I don’t see any other clients’ names in my notes. Wonder why that is. 
 

 

[Chef Jim]

1 hour ago, LeviF said:

Ah, the rewards for deftly handling a trial in which an individual was convicted of sex trafficking women to satisfy the sexual proclivities of her boss who committed suicide in jail while the cameras were off and the guards had abandoned post and *checks notes*, well that’s odd I don’t see any other clients’ names in my notes. Wonder why that is. 
 

 

Why is their sexual preference important. Can someone please explain why this matters?   
 

Hiring Manager:  Tell is about your qualifications 

 

Candidate:  Well as you can tell I’m a woman. And I’m openly gay. 
 

Hiring Manager:  Oooookay.   Is there anything else that qualifies you for the position?

 

Candidate:  Does there really need to be anything else?   Geez. 

[BillsFanNC]

Back in the 90s  I had a few gay friends. One if them was very openly gay but at the same time would often say "don't judge me by my sexuality, my sexuality doesn't define me."

 

Agreed. He's a good dude and a friend who happens to be gay. I just think of him as a friend.

 

Around this same time he joined  a choir...but not just any choir.  The gay men's choir.

 

There was a bit of disconnect there for me so I asked him the obvious question. Why if you don't want to be defined by your sexuality would you join a choir that defines its members by their sexuality?

 

His answer: it's not a big deal. I don't want to be defined individually by my sexuality, but in a group it's harmless.

 

Slippery slope down to today.

 

Absolutely everything is boiled down to your immutable individual traits. And you absolutely will be judged by those characteristics above all else.

 

You can thank the left. Right now it's open season on all who challenge this insanity, but it will be absolutely hilarious when they inevitably begin eating their own.

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

INCENTIVES MATTER. SO DO DISINCENTIVES: 

 

Child Porn Offender Who Got Lenient Sentence From Ketanji Jackson Continued to Seek Images of Children.

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/03/25/child-porn-offender-who-got-lenient-sentence-from-ketanji-jackson-continued-to-seek-images-of-children-n1584198

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/03/24/hawkins-brown-jackson-pornography-sentence/

 

 

 

[daz28]

Dems are going to stack the court and legalize pizza pedo shops!!!  They must be stopped before they destroy Murica!!!!

[John Adams]

Interesting graphic. Few justices with practical experience.