Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) was on Meet the Press earlier today, whining about “unelected judges” and plugging his book Sacred Duty. Chuckle Todd tried to get Cotton to say whether life begins at conception or at birth, though he could have pressed harder.
You know what, though? I am concerned about unelected judges. As in judges appointed by a popular vote loser at the behest of the so-called Federalist Society.
That includes confirmed plagiarist Neil Gorsuch and alleged rapist Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, as well as a bunch of unqualified judges for the lower federal courts.
Maybe Chief Justice John Roberts (also appointed by a popular vote loser) really is reluctant to overturn Roe v. Wade wholesale, as at least a few pundits have asserted.
But with all the fascist, Gileadean laws the states are passing in the hopes of having them wind their way up the courts, it may only be a matter of time before the Supreme Court gets a chance to severely limit access to abortion even if stopping short of a full overturn.
Remember how the alleged rapist said “I like beer” at his confirmation hearing? I wonder if Bart O’Kavanaugh abstained from beer any of the times his wife has been pregnant. My guess would be no, he did not, he kept chugging just the same.
Maybe we will never know for sure whether Kavanaugh ever completed a rape, much less whether he impregnated the woman he raped. Just attempted rape, however, is a major infringement of a woman’s right to control her body.
To be clear, Kavanaugh has not been formally charged with attempted rape either. But do any Republicans doubt he did it? As our own SemDem put it, it’s the very reason they went from lukewarm to fierce support of his nomination practically overnight.
If Kavanaugh raped a woman, or just tried to, it demonstrates to his fellow Republicans that he views women as second class citizens, and that he will do what he can to put them in their place.
Gorsuch plagiarized a woman, but he’s never been accused of violating a woman’s physical space. In a 5-4 ruling, would this distinction matter? Maybe, maybe not.
If you watched Meet the Press this morning, did you notice the way Cotton thanked Chuckle Todd for his interest in his book Sacred Duty: A Soldier’s Tour at Arlington National? About as graciously as Nazi zombie Stephen Miller saying “Merry Christmas.”
Cotton is a military veteran who somehow managed to forget about a little thing called the chain of command when he and other Republicans tried to undermine President Barack Obama’s Iran deal.
Republicans have managed to fool some people with their supposed concern for the sanctity of life. But when it comes to wasting the lives of our troops in unnecessary or preventable wars, Republicans couldn’t care less.