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Many, many years ago, in the 1700s, the pace of life was slower. I can’t confirm this from personal experience, but I have that on good authority. The Senate did not need to respond in a timely fashion to anything, except for perhaps a muscular attack...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Sat Nov 04, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is warning the nearly 2 to 1 majority of the population who disagree with overturning Roe vs Wade that he and the five who back the Alito opinion won’t be “bullied” and that this majority which disagrees with the...
by Dem
46 comments
on Sat May 07, 2022 at 11:33 AM PDT
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If you watched any of the Supreme Court hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson and found yourself repulsed by Republicans, you weren't alone. In a Quinnipiac University poll released late last week, 52% of Americans disapproved of the way GOP senators were...
by Kerry Eleveld
77 comments
on Mon Apr 04, 2022 at 10:51 AM PDT
with 137 Recommends
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This non-issue has been fact-checked over and over, even by republicans. It’s indefensible. LG and Cruz and Hawley and others are either absolute morons or they are the most dishonest people on the planet or both. Really, the answer is to quickly...
by Dem
14 comments
on Thu Mar 24, 2022 at 02:30 PM PDT
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Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee looked like they were heading down a familiar partisan path. They tried various lines of hostile questioning on Judge Brown-Jackson, the nominee whose qualifications they had to evaluate. Sen. Lindsay...
by theAngrySwamy
161 comments
on Tue Mar 22, 2022 at 04:27 PM PDT
with 377 Recommends
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first day of confirmation hearings continues with opening statements from Senate Judiciary Committee members and Jackson.
Watch live at the � Judiciary Committee ...
by Joan McCarter
57 comments
on Mon Mar 21, 2022 at 12:13 PM PDT
with 104 Recommends
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Nationwide, members of the Asian American Pacific Islander community are turning their pain into action. They are running for office and being elected in record numbers for seats from the local to federal level, many as firsts in their states and...
by Aysha Qamar
29 comments
on Wed Dec 15, 2021 at 01:11 PM PST
with 89 Recommends
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I’ve tried finding data on this subject but can’t seem to find anything so I thought I would conduct my own informal poll here. This is solely done out of curiosity. If anyone knows of any data on this subject, please let me know.
by Awful Falafel Waffles ROFL
93 comments
on Tue Dec 14, 2021 at 01:48 PM PST
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Is there a way to add three or four more Justices to the Supreme Court that avoids the Senate filibuster? If seems to me there is precedent for unpacking the supreme court. Mitch McConnell did this when he denied Merrick Garland any consideration and...
by Axel Rod
50 comments
on Sat Aug 28, 2021 at 05:05 AM PDT
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Senate confirms AG Merrick Garland by 70-30 vote. McConnell voted aye. Here is the video of the final vote. No applause or jubilation? The Senate also confirmed Marcia Fudge, the first Black woman in more than 40 years to lead the Department of...
by AKALib
57 comments
on Wed Mar 10, 2021 at 12:27 PM PST
with 67 Recommends
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Pete Buttigieg may have passed the Senate vote easily, with 86 votes in favor, to become the first openly-LGBTQ person to hold a cabinet position as secretary of transportation, but there was one vote on the nay side that certainly stands...
by Christopher Reeves
9 comments
on Tue Feb 02, 2021 at 10:03 AM PST
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I’d like us to take time some time out to congratulate our new Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen. On a 84-15 vote (with Marco Rubio “abstaining”), Yellen has been confirmed as the first woman ever to hold the position. The Washington...
by iLuvReading
15 comments
on Mon Jan 25, 2021 at 06:01 PM PST
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Today is a very busy day on Capitol Hill ! . Cabinet hearings on C-Span How to watch the Cabinet hearings : . . (CNN)Five of President-elect Joe Biden's national security Cabinet nominees will face Senate panels on Tuesday in the...
by Dem
9 comments
on Tue Jan 19, 2021 at 08:04 AM PST
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Justice Stephen Breyer is 82 years old. The wins of Ossoff and Warnock now give the Democrats control of the Senate for the first time in 10 years. It is fifty-fifty. There is a chance the the Rethugs can take...
by aPauledInNJ
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on Sun Jan 10, 2021 at 11:22 AM PST
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Neera Tanden is the poster child of neoliberalism. As such, she should not have any part in Joe Biden’s economic brain trust. They say the internet doesn’t forget, but it also preserves one’s stated policy positions as well as the...
by ScottNAtlanta
166 comments
on Wed Dec 02, 2020 at 01:46 PM PST
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A quick break from the campaign-o-rama for a couple thoughts on the new Supreme Court. First, by ‘new,’ I don’t just mean Justice Coney Barrett, but the transformation that has happened during this administration. I’m looking at the tea leaves, and I'm...
by Elson Farmer
25 comments
on Wed Oct 28, 2020 at 09:01 AM PDT
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There is much well-justified ado about President Donald Trump’s appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Her appointment unbalances the court heavily to the right, making it arguably the most conservative court in modern history. No...
by notchakotay
8 comments
on Tue Oct 27, 2020 at 01:57 AM PDT
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A short, perfect argument: "Originalism is invalid because no evidence the Founders believed in it." Thinking recently about questions for nominee Amy Coney Barrett, and her Originalism theory, I thought of an interesting argument — “Originalism is not a valid judicial theory because there is no evidence that the constitutional framers believed...
by RETIII
55 comments
on Fri Oct 16, 2020 at 07:12 AM PDT
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Amy Coney Barrett, her husband Jesse and their children appeared without masks on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. They also attended a reception and closely interacted with politicians that have since been...
by runninginsand
24 comments
on Tue Oct 06, 2020 at 04:42 PM PDT
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Recent news has yielded macabre thoughts stemming from a sense of just karma. Dark as these may be, October is the correct month for ghoulish considerations. It seems many on Kos myself included are gleeful at certain prospects yet...
by Fffflats
13 comments
on Fri Oct 02, 2020 at 11:22 AM PDT
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