Chomper Higgot

So prior to the election candidate Biden considers who he might appoint to the SC. He’s presented a number of likely candidates and settles on the superb and highly qualified Ketanji Brown Jackson. He then, during the election campaign, offers a vote gleaning teaser along the lines of; ‘I’ve decided who I’ll nominate to the SC and she’s black’. Que Outrage (pun intended). Like every other nomination to the SC, Brown Jackson was selected by recommendation. String pulling and influence peddling. There is no ‘open, transparent and fair competitive selection process’, like the objectively ‘best man/woman for the job’ it doesn’t exist, never has existed, Unlike almost every other nominee to the SC, Ketanji Brown Jackson is superbly qualified and she will be the only SC Justice on the bench with experience of representing poor and ordinary blue collar Americans facing the justice system. I look forward to toasting her appointment to the SC with a rather good Single Malt.

Please post a link to the completed wall.

Putin maintains power through projecting strength, power and fear. The Ukrainians have shown they can overcome their fear and by doing so have exposed Russia’s, and therefore Putin’s weakness. A tyrant cannot maintain power once he is exposed as weak. The Russians will put a stop to Putin before Putin puts a stop to the Russians.

So after all this time posting on an Asia based forum the concept of ‘saving face’ has managed to elude you.

What news channel do they watch?

And yet after 115 appointments to the Supreme Court that’s exactly what it took. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to illustrate the point you made - Yes, I agree Racism is at the heart of it, ingrained institutional racism. Biden just cut the racists out of the equation, predictable fabricated outrage has followed.

She is exceptionally qualified, more so than the last three appointees combined.

Western Europe has been on a boats to renewable energy for some time now. This war will accelerate that move.

China needs food, and the US controls the food China needs. China will fall back on its non interference doctrine while seeking to buy up Russian raw materials and resources. China knows Ukrainian grain is not included in any deal Russia can make.

Placing prisoners of war to act as human shields is a breach of the Geneva Convention. Treating captured Russians humanely and getting that message out to other Russian troops and Russian civilians is a far smarter play, not to exclude far more moral, and in the battle for hearts and minds morality matters.

It’s irrelevant really. She’s highly qualified and she’s nominated.

The Constitution places the nomination of appointees to the SCOTUS firmly in the hands of the President. This President made a campaign promise to appoint a highly qualified black female to the SCOTUS, he’s done exactly what he he promised he would do. The histrionics from the other side of the house is where you’ll find your ‘partisan’ pantomime. I have no problem holding a whole party to account for behavior the whole party supports.

And he kept his campaign promise.

I’m quite certain he’s right now considering his future. Perhaps Biden will get the chance to nominate a second highly qualified judge to the SCOTUS.

I was wondering who that GOP pantomime performance was aimed at, now I know.

Spare a thought for the guy who gets to tell Putin: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-it-has-destroyed-large-russian-landing-ship-2022-03-24/

Thank you Madeleine for your life of public service. RIP.

There is no such thing as the objectively best qualified person for the job. It’s in the President’s purview to choose who he wants, the party with a fondness waving the Confederate Flag, don’t like his choice.

It’s very clear that he looked at the make up of the SCOTUS and decided it needed a highly qualified Black woman on the bench. He chose a fabulously qualified candidate.

While recognizing personal budgets might be tight, maintaining a passport is probably a good investment if you believe your son might at sometime in the future wish to visit or move to the UK.

Judges will n the SCOTUS are not subordinate to anyone. Your wish for the future is on its way.

No more so than Stacey Abrams. What a girl, what a fantastic fight for democracy?!

selection has been race/gender biased since the founding of the SC?! But of course, other people’s gender is another one of those fragility trigger things.

Biden is keeping a campaign promise to appoint a Black woman to the SCOTUS. He won the election with that promise: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/retiring-us-justice-breyer-appear-with-biden-white-house-2022-01-27/

Can you point me to your objections to the last two appointees, one of whom was clearly an over emotional alcoholic with a secret benefactor paying off his huge gambling debts, you might remember him sobbing in outrage at being questioned in the Senate. The other had to be schooled on basic points of constitutional law, a bit of a worry for a SCOTUS judge.