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Which SCOTUS nominee will be more qualified, Ketanji Brown Jackson or Amy Comey Barret

  • Ketanji Brown

    Votes: 48 100.0%

  • Amy Comey Barret

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    48
hal2kilo

hal2kilo

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MomentsofSanity said:
It's going to be readily predictable. They won't criticize her credentials. They won't even mention them. They are going to talk about the fact that he made it known in advance it would be a person of color and that, by default, means bias.

But let me ask this... would they have been perfectly fine with a white male? No. So who the fuck cares what they think?
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No, wait till they ask her about her relative that was in prison for life on a crack cocaine dealing charge, which she was able to get him off.
 
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FirNaTine

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Ketanji isn't an American name, so she clearly isn't qualified.

I'm kidding, but this will definitely not be a joke for a large portion of the US population.

Of the names floated as under consideration, I thought she had the strongest experience for the position, and definitely much more of a record to evaluate than ACB.
 
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Fenixgoon

Fenixgoon

Lifer
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Pens1566 said:
Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.
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Ah yes, educating our future generations. Not important at all. Teaching is just as valid as practicing.

Not to say that teaching and practicing are the same (they're very much not), but don't devalue teaching.

Great practitioners don't always make the best teachers anyway. My engineering department in school had a professor who was a brilliant researcher, but a notoriously awful teacher.
 
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Pens1566

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Fenixgoon said:
Ah yes, educating our future generations. Not important at all. Teaching is just as valid as practicing.

Not to say that teaching and practicing are the same (they're very much not), but don't devalue teaching.

Great practitioners don't always make the best teachers anyway. My engineering department in school had a professor who was a brilliant researcher, but a notoriously awful teacher.
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I wasn't necessarily. My father was a teacher. Just in her case she seems to be a bit light in the CV. Law is one profession where I think this would be more important than most. Especially when you're talking about the most important job in said profession.
 
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FirNaTine

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Pens1566 said:
I wasn't necessarily. My father was a teacher. Just in her case she seems to be a bit light in the CV. Law is one profession where I think this would be more important than most. Especially when you're talking about the most important job in said profession.
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I think the more important factor would be what you’re teaching or what type of law you were practicing.

10 years doing divorce/custody type work vs federal appellate practice are leagues apart, just as teaching introductory law or legal writing vs teaching Constitutional law and (hopefully) staying up to the minute on federal appeals and SCOTUS would similarly be worlds apart.
 
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darkswordsman17

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Pens1566 said:
Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.
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That's just something idiots say to justify why they're proud of being stupid. Often while they simultaneously try to brag about making more money than teachers whilst also bemoaning that teachers supposedly make too much money (and supposedly more than them), because, again, they're idiots.
 
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HomerJS

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fleshconsumed said:
Pretty sure Squee is reference to Brett Kavanaugh. Technically Squee was one of his high school/college buddies, but for some reason Squee name stuck to Brett Kavanaugh. Probably because of how juvenile the whole affair and hearing become.
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Yes it was. I'm surprised you guys didn't pick that up.
 
hal2kilo

hal2kilo

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darkswordsman17 said:
That's just something idiots say to justify why they're proud of being stupid. Often while they simultaneously try to brag about making more money than teachers whilst also bemoaning that teachers supposedly make too much money (and supposedly more than them), because, again, they're idiots.
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It's really only true for Quality Assurance people.
 
hal2kilo

hal2kilo

Lifer
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MomentsofSanity said:
It's going to be readily predictable. They won't criticize her credentials. They won't even mention them. They are going to talk about the fact that he made it known in advance it would be a person of color and that, by default, means bias.

But let me ask this... would they have been perfectly fine with a white male? No. So who the fuck cares what they think?
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This is the only reason.

RNC Accuses Biden’s SCOTUS Nominee of…Being a Democrat! – Mother Jones
 
HomerJS

HomerJS

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GOP op on Sunday show said Republicans will ask her is it fair Biden chose her based on race.

My answer: Ronald Regan and Donald Trump both promised to nominate a woman. Why are you questioning it just because Biden picked a black one??
 
soundforbjt

soundforbjt

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HomerJS said:
GOP op on Sunday show said Republicans will ask her is it fair Biden chose her based on race.

My answer: Ronald Regan and Donald Trump both promised to nominate a woman. Why are you questioning it just because Biden picked a black one??
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My answer: If confirmed I will be the first Black woman ever in over 200 years...too soon?
 
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hal2kilo

hal2kilo

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Meanwhile....
Trump has the oddest ways of "helping someone out".

Trump has choice words for Brett Kavanaugh | Salon.com

The former president said that "at any cost," Supreme Court justices "don't want to be impeached."

"Please don't impeach me. I don't want to be impeached," Trump said, mocking the justices. "Don't impeach me, please, for being with women that I've never heard of before — women that he didn't know, women that a particular justice, Kavanaugh, had no idea who they were but you know what, he's lived through hell, and he's afraid, I believe he's afraid, I believe he's afraid to do the right thing, I really do."

"They said not so long ago, we're going to impeach him for something, and then they found out, the woman got up and said he never did anything wrong," Trump added. "They said, 'We don't care, we're going to impeach him anyway.' These are vicious people, and we can't let this go on. They (Supreme Court justices) have to gain strength. They have to gain new courage, and they have to stand up for freedom and stand up for what is right. They can no longer be afraid of the radical left, our Supreme Court."
 
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HomerJS

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Of course while staying silent for the barely qualified white woman they are demanding a full set of education credentials from the black one.

Would a FUCK YOU be appropriate at this time? This is a version birtherism all over again. If you are black it requires additional proof. "Show me your papers c00n"

Tucker Carlson Wants to See SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's LSAT Score for Some Reason (Video) (msn.com)

An explanation why "show me your papers, boy" is so insulting and it's history.
 
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m8d

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Pens1566 said:
Not gonna lie, I was secretly hoping he'd nominate either Obama or Hillary just to watch heads explode.

Oh, they'd also both be more qualified than ACB.
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The GOP would have committed mass suicide.
 
HomerJS

HomerJS

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HomerJS said:
Of course while staying silent for the barely qualified white woman they are demanding a full set of education credentials from the black one.

Would a FUCK YOU be appropriate at this time? This is a version birtherism all over again. If you are black it requires additional proof. "Show me your papers c00n"

Tucker Carlson Wants to See SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's LSAT Score for Some Reason (Video) (msn.com)

An explanation why "show me your papers, boy" is so insulting and it's history.
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Just like I previously stated...
Column: The unsubtle racism of questioning Ketanji Brown Jackson's qualifications (msn.com)
 
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FirNaTine

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HomerJS said:
Just like I previously stated...
Column: The unsubtle racism of questioning Ketanji Brown Jackson's qualifications (msn.com)
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And he mocked her name also as I mentioned early on. Being predictable doesn't make it less despicable though. I think we absolutely should question her qualifications for a lifetime appointment, but not any differently than anyone that went before her though..

But how about this (as more of a thought experiment than an enforceable rule): Senators are only allowed to ask questions of the opposite parties nomination if that same question was asked of their own parties last nomination by either side. In other words Republicans can ask anything they want as long as the same was asked of ACB by someone. Democrats would be free to ask new questions though, and that would open the door to new future questions of subsequent candidates of either party.
 
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