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Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

January 26, 2022 10:47 AM Forum: Politics

Nobody

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Just a working man stiff on his way home on a bus. Used to be a CIA "auditor" in his earlier days...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2un1aU7mT0

January 27, 2022 01:04 AM Forum: Politics

Intellectual Cowards like Fauci, Walensky, and Collins didn't show up

Posted By Rod Kaufman

They need to hear and see it again:   https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2022/01/26/fox-coronavirus-vaccines-roll-the-tape-keilar-newday-vpx.cnn

January 27, 2022 01:57 AM Forum: Politics

And now the Quota filling will begin, as Biden checks all his boxes..

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Well, unlike Trump, any of Biden's choices for all of his picks elsewhere in the judicial system are approved as "qualified" by the American Bar Association. TEN of Trump's picks were rated as "unqualified":
https://ballotpedia.org/ABA_ratings_during_the_Trump_administration

January 27, 2022 04:57 AM Forum: Politics

And now the Quota filling will begin, as Biden checks all his boxes..

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi Rod:

The ABA is an overtly partisan organization.  They are no less partisan, but of course opposite to, the Federalist Society.  Jim
Hi Jim,
The ABA begs to differ: "The ABA is a non-partisan, voluntary membership organization. Neither the ABA nor the Governmental Affairs Office has a political action committee, makes political contributions, or endorses candidates for office."
https://www.americanbar.org/advocacy/governmental_legislative_work/about/

January 27, 2022 06:55 AM Forum: Politics

And now the Quota filling will begin, as Biden checks all his boxes..

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

Of course they do.  You must know some conservative lawyers who you could ask, besides me?
Well, the main thing is we know whoever Biden's pick will be, Rich will be against it so it doesn't really matter, now does it!?

January 27, 2022 08:17 AM Forum: Politics

And now the Quota filling will begin, as Biden checks all his boxes..

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

We do know that for sure.  One thing I'm curious to see.  Will a lot of the R's in the Senate vote to approve Biden's candidate, even though he or she is liberal, assuming he or she is otherwise qualified?   That was the way it used to be done.  Recently however, party line votes are the norm.  Wonder how it will shake out.

Jim
Just ask Mitch McConnell...

January 27, 2022 09:00 AM Forum: Politics

And now the Quota filling will begin, as Biden checks all his boxes..

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer
Like Rich said.....who cares, since it doesnt potentially change the court most people are not going to care whom they put in the seat outside of some outrageous radical that has no business there.....
Yeah, like Clarence Thomas...

January 27, 2022 01:43 PM Forum: Politics

And now the Quota filling will begin, as Biden checks all his boxes..

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Mel Maki
Instead of announcing exactly what he wants Biden should have just done it. Less controversy with the same result.
All presidents have their candidates announced first and THEN a selection is announced. There's no mystery about the announcement process. That's the way it's been done. Even Trump had a few alternatives while he went through the motions before announcing McConnell's pick of Amy C Barrett. Sheesh...

January 27, 2022 11:35 PM Forum: Politics

And now the Quota filling will begin, as Biden checks all his boxes..

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

These other Presidents didn't engage in blatant discrimination.  

If this were the private sector and any company put out a hiring bulletin, and said whites, hispanics, asians, and males need not apply, their ass would be in a courtroom, with the result being that they would have a hefty fine applied by the Gov't for illegal discrimination in their hiring.

Go ahead and refute that.  It isn't an arguable position to claim otherwise. That is a fact. 

As I said, I couldn't care less who he picks, as she is going to be a rubber stamp for progressivism and for completely ignoring the Constitution, which is the very reason these justices are in that position, to interpret the laws as they comport to the Constitution, and I'm talking the US Constitution, not some other nation's Constitution.  
"Only two African Americans, Justices Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, have served on the nation’s highest court, and only one woman of color has been a justice — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is Latina. And Black women aren’t just unrepresented on the Supreme Court, they are also massively underrepresented on the federal bench. And they were even more so before Biden took office."
"But Biden could also take a page from President Ronald Reagan’s playbook."
"Reagan promised to nominate the first woman to the Supreme Court, but when a vacancy opened up early in Reagan’s presidency, women of all racial backgrounds were underrepresented on the federal bench, and conservative women who shared Reagan’s political views were especially underrepresented."
https://www.vox.com/22346420/supreme-court-breyer-retires-ketanji-brown-jackson-leondra-kruger-biden-pick

January 28, 2022 12:29 AM Forum: Politics

And now the Quota filling will begin, as Biden checks all his boxes..

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

As I said I couldn't give a damn who he picks.  

The fact remains, they won't have to stand out against all comers and all applicants.

Black women make up 7% of society, and so automatically 93% of the competition is eliminated right off the bat (even more than that since Biden will never pick a conservative black woman).  

When Justice Barrett was up for nomination, she wasn't ONLY going against 7% of all other applicants.  

When Justice Thomas was up for nomination, he wasn't ONLY going against 7% of all other applicants.

Those are 2 facts there that you can't deny.  

They were up against the entire judiciary out there.   wink
"When Justice Barrett was up for nomination, she wasn't ONLY going against 7% of all other applicants. "
Lol! Mitch McConnell called Trump at midnight on the day Ginsburg died and told him that he had to nominate Amy. So much for any altruistic rationale on the part of the Republican party...