More on Ketanji Brown Jackson and her qualifications in comparison to her future colleagues, in case you haven't seen this chart from the Washington Post:
Republicans really do seem to think that defense attorneys in general and public defenders especially have no place on the Supreme Court. And that they have a right to demean anyone who's not a white man in particularly vile ways.
All I can say is, the Senate had better confirm her. I kind of assume that the withdrawal of Sarah Bloom Raskin's nomination to the Fed board (which was reprehensible) was done as a deal to clinch Joe Manchin's vote.
Meanwhile, I have started reading Elie Mystal's Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution, so I am even saltier than usual about the faults of our legal system.
It drives me crazy when Republican senators talk about what-the-founders-intended and the role of dark money (who paid off Kavanaugh’s debts?) and the need for “candid” conversation about the nominee’s “judicial philosophy.”
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