Judiciary

If you don’t think the GOP wants to pack the courts to favor the corps and authoritarianism, you’d be mistaken.

The reason why Kagan has no previous judicial experience is because the Senate Republicans who now complain about her lack of judicial experience are the very people who thwarted her efforts to gain such experience. Orrin Hatch complains that she has never been a judge – but in 1999, when Kagan was tapped to fill a vacant seat on the federal court of appeals, it was Orrin Hatch, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who blocked her nomination in the first place.

As the ’99 news coverage makes clear, Kagan was nominated that June by President Clinton for a seat on the federal appeals court based in the District of Columbia. She never made it to the Senate floor for a vote. Actually, it was worse than that. She never made it to the Judiciary Committee for a committee vote. Actually, it was worse than that. She never got a chance to testify, because Hatch wouldn’t even agree to schedule a hearing. The appeals court seat remained vacant until 2003 – when John Roberts was confirmed to fill it.

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And now for something completely different:

I absolutely despise the way some people use their cell phones. The only thing worse than talking on the phone while driving is texting while driving. DON’T RISK MY LIFE THAT WAY! I’d like to see a law passed making it legal to pull people out of their cars and beat them to death for that. And don’t get me started on the idiot with the blue tooth behind me, talking in a loud voice about nonsense. Shit, I don’t even like to answer the phone because so many people don’t know when to say “goodbye”.

So this was fun to see:

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