So much fun this week.
Barrett’s hearings start today.
There will be bullshit.
The Supreme Court Fight Starts
ACB’s Opening Statement Leaked
Amy Coney Barret is starting her testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today. This should be absolute fun. I am planning to see sweating, screaming, gnashing of teeth and probably some cussing. I can’t wait. On Sunday, part of the Notorious ACB (and I say this because it pisses off liberals) released part of her opening statement.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett will praise her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, and honor the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a brief series of remarks to open her Senate confirmation hearings Monday morning.
The four-page statement, issued to most major media outlets on Sunday, has Barrett focusing intently on her judicial qualifications and her theory of interpreting the law, rather than her background, family, or religion — something left-leaning and progressive activists have focused intently on over the past several weeks.
Instead, Barrett will address Democrats’ concerns that she will issue proclamations from the bench and “make law” with judicial rulings.
“Courts have a vital responsibility to enforce the rule of law, which is critical to a free society,” the statement reads. “But courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life. The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the People.”
ACB was a clerk for Antonin Scalia. She said:
“Justice Scalia taught me more than just law. He was devoted to his family, resolute in his beliefs, and fearless of criticism. And as I embarked on my own legal career, I resolved to maintain that same perspective. There is a tendency in our profession to treat the practice of law as all-consuming while losing sight of everything else. But that makes for a shallow and unfulfilling life.”
Her statement continues:
“When I was 21 years old and just beginning my career, Ruth Bader Ginsburg sat in this seat. She told the Committee, ‘What has become of me could only happen in America.’ I have been nominated to fill Justice Ginsburg’s seat, but no one will ever take her place. I will be forever grateful for the path she marked and the life she led.”
Politico called the statement “bland” and had nothing to do with any issues. Well, it’s an opening statement.
Democrats have said they might no attack her as much as we first thought. Her record is way too good. Her experience is way to heavy. And she has been through Senate confirmation process before. Anything the Dems can come up with now would seem desperate because it would have been brought up two years ago.
Senator Ted Cruz from Texas doesn’t think the Dems will back off. He said on Meet the Press:
“I hope we don’t see Senate Democrats turning it into a political circus. I think we’re going to see, by the way, some more procedural games and shenanigans. I don’t know what they’re going to do, whether it’s try to boycott meetings or try to impeach the president.”
“The delay tactics of the Democrats aren’t going to work. I think they are looking for anything to delay things even a day or two or three. We’ve managed to have hearings for months.”
“I believe we have the votes and I believe Judge Barrett on the merits is going to be confirmed and confirmed by the end of the month before Election Day.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/preview-amy-coney-barrett-to-honor-ruth-bader-ginsburg-praise-antonin-scalia-in-confirmation-hearing-opening-statement
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cruz-predicts-shenanigans-from-democrats-during-barretts-supreme-court-confirmation-hearing
These Guys Need to Learn a Book
CNN host Jake Tapper repeatedly backed Biden campaign spokesperson Kate Bedingfield into a corner on Sunday morning over the Biden campaign’s recent remarks, or lack thereof, on the issue of court-packing.
Tapper played comments from Biden where the Democratic presidential candidate falsely claimed that what the Senate was doing by moving to confirm Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was “not constitutional.”
Let’s listen to this idiot when she talks about putting a Supreme Court Justice before an election:
What the fuck is she talking about? The popularity of a law has nothing to do with the law. And, in this case, it is the law of the land. It is the supreme law. Do we know why the process to confirm Amy Coney Barrett is Constitutional? Because a Democrat would sue and try to take this to the Supreme Court. But they would lose in federal court. Because it’s Constitutional!!
- Even if Trump loses the election, he is still the President until January. He is President for four years. Not three and a half.
- Next, the Senate was elected, even expanded in 2018. The Senate wants this person in the Supreme Court, the Senate can vote on it. If the Senate doesn’t, they won’t. This same situation has happened 19 times in the past. It’s not unprecedented.
- Polls do not change the Constitution. This is where Tapper really hammered her.
But it gets better. This gal refused to answer anything about Biden packing the Supreme Court. Listen:
OK, here’s the question: Is Biden going to pack the court? Yes or no?
He has not answered that question fifteen times this week. That’s a lie. It’s also, correctly pointed out by Tapper, that Republicans and Trump do this throughout history. That is a lie. The last President who wanted to pack the court was Mr. New Deal, FDR. A Democrat.
Now, I want you to notice some thing:
- Jake Tapper really blew her out. he is, I hope, a classical liberal. He’s no Trump fan. His questions were very valid.
- Notice that Democrats just have diarrhea when they’re asked a question they don’t want to answer? A good Journalist calls them on it.
Here’s a news flash: Biden is going to pack the court, or try. There’s no guarantee that would happen.
- But this isn’t even the dumbest story. It’s just the story of a dumb person. Well, the next story is by a dumb person but he’s a Senator.
“The only court-packing that’s going on right now is going on with Republicans,” Biden insisted.
Court-packing, of course, has a very specific definition. As the Daily Wire noted Sunday, the practice, which originated with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt through the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, involves appointing “up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court for every justice older than 70 years, 6 months, who had served 10 years or more.”
“The U.S. Constitution set up America’s high court but did not establish how many justices should serve, leaving that up to Congress,” the Daily Wire’s Joseph Curl noted. “The Judiciary Act of 1789 put the number at six; that number rose to seven in 1807 and to nine in 1837. The number rose to 10 in 1863, then dropped back down to seven in 1866. In 1869, Congress raised the number of justices to nine, where it has stood ever since.”
But Democrats are now pressing the line that confirming judges to open seats — particularly conservative judges — constitutes “court-packing,” and the memo has gone out not only to competing politicos but also to left-leaning activists and sympathetic media figures.
- https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-jake-tapper-wrecks-clueless-biden-spokesperson-thats-not-what-the-word-constitutional-means
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-dems-accuse-gop-of-court-packing-for-filling-vacancies-confirming-conservative-judges
No Scruples
The Washington Post targeted the children of Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Friday, running a headline that suggests the children spread COVID-19 within their school, though the children have no ties to the three positive tests and have tested negative themselves.
Beth Reinhard, co-author of the article, posted on Twitter:
“Two students and teacher at school attended by SCOTUS nom Amy Coney Barrett’s kids test positive for coronavirus, two weeks after ‘superspreader’ White House event for ACB (Amy Coney Barrett). Parents are freaked out though no proven link.”
Beth Reinhard wrote the article with Tom Hamburger. They wrote:
“A private school in South Bend, Ind., attended by some children of President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, notified parents late Thursday that two students and a teacher had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.”
Of course, in the next paragraph, the two said:
“The emails from the Trinity School principal came less than two weeks after the Barrett family was honored at a White House event attended by several people who subsequently tested positive for the virus, including President Trump. The principal’s announcement alarmed some school families, though there is no evidence linking the school infections to the White House event.”
And the coup d’tat of the article, which should have made this story completely irrelevant:
“A White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive health matters said Barrett’s children have tested negative, never showed symptoms and were kept out of school after revelations that some who attended the White House ceremonies had tested positive. The official did not specify how long the children stayed home but said the school approved their return to the classroom.”
Twitter went insane. The Washington Post and the two authors of the articles got absolutely roasted. The obvious problem is there is no proof, whatsoever, that the spread was because of Barrett’s children or Barrett or Trump. They said it in the article!
A noted attorney and popular Twitter account said:
Matt Whitlock said:
Mollie Hemingway from the Federalist said:
Another Twitter user bitched:
This is typical and expect more of this especially as Barrett gets confirmed. And she is going to get confirmed.
What really is annoying is how stupid the media thinks we are. This article literally said there was no evidence that the teachers and students got infected because of the Trump announcement of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/absolute-ghoul-washington-post-targets-amy-coney-barretts-kids-draws-backlash