Ketanji Brown Jackson is Not Going to Make It – I’m Sorry to Have to Break That News to You
I never thought she stood much of a chance. First of all, she made the mistake of having been nominated by a Democratic President. That’s damming info, right there. But there is also Murkowski and Collins looking wobbly as they don’t want to be seen going to bat for a child molester.
With those two gone, President Joe Manchin makes the call and you know, it is just so political and partisan to be nominating justices in this environment. Also, Biden never consulted with the GOP on this nomination. So there is that.
When she was nominated, quite a few people speculated that a lot of Republican senators would vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination, given that “no” votes would almost certainly be futile. The members of the GOP’s rapidly shrinking club of senatorial bipartisan fetishists could therefore indulge their particular kink at no practical cost, with the extra added benefit for them of proving how totally not racist or sexist they were by voting for a black woman.
It’s not working out that way. After two days of mainstreaming crypto-QAnon memes by claiming that Brown Jackson is soft on child porn, it’s clear that almost no Senate Republicans are going to vote for her – maybe Our Lady of the Perpetually Furrowed Brow, and Lisa Murkowski, but that’s probably it.
The breakdown of the norm that senators in the out party should vote for a SCOTUS nominee unless the nominee was some combination of tainted by political scandal (Fortas), too obviously an undistinguished partisan hack (Haynsworth and Carswell), a jurisprudential radical (Bork), or a sexual harasser (Thomas) has been quite gradual, but it’s now apparently complete.
There’s been absolutely no reason to believe she isn’t going to get 50 votes.
All reporting has shown every democrat is standing pretty firm beside her.
Noted. Please feel free to check back here after the vote if you’d like to gloat.
Not only will Manchin be the nail in the coffin, but it’ll be “too close to the election” to nominate someone else…. then the seat will it empty until 2025… or until Speaker Trump is installed
Not only will Manchin be the nail in the coffin, but it’ll be “too close to the election” to nominate someone else…. then the seat will sit empty until 2025… or until Speaker Trump is installed
Manchin just came out and said he will vote for her confirmation.
“Manchin just came out and said he will vote for her confirmation.”
Coincidentally, Thomas was just released from the hospital.
Manchin is a lying soon-to-be republican sack of shit. Nothing is secured until she’s sworn in.
Yeah, this kind of alarmism is just a hot garbage take. Please stop and be sensible.
Alarmism isn’t a word. Or if it is a word, it is a garbage word.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alarmism
Anyway, I do think we’re in even another new era of Supreme Court nominees already, where the next time the parties of Senate control and the Presidency are not the same, I can see literally no confirmations happening. I suppose a 51/49 split means anything can happen, but any more than that and you’re looking at a period of judicial gridlock the likes of which have never been orchestrated before.
What do you do then? Court packing is impossible considering the votes will never be there, so that suggestion is ludicrous. Do you just hold up any confirmations until there’s unity?
I think it is clear. Democrats continue to operate under bygone norms and rules and Republicans don’t. What’s the big mystery?
Collins is voting for the nominee. So, I stand corrected.
Romney and Murkowski today, by the way.
This remains a spectacularly bad take.
*eyeroll*. What’s the good take? That glorious bipartisanship broke through the clouds of divisiveness and gridlock? I guess this means that the “fever has broken” at long last, right?
It’s not a bad take until she’s confirmed. This was not her confirmation vote.