(For those wondering where I was this week, the western San Fernando Valley had a major power outage this past Monday. When it came back, my computer told me the Motherboard Fan wasn’t working and that failure to heed the warning would lead to hard drive failure. So the computer went back off, very quickly, and the next day it went to “my guys” and over Tuesday and Wednesday they saved my ass. So now we’re back.)
TC, Your equation of liberal justices' denial of their mortality = the death of a liberal Supreme Court represents its tombstone and the sorry truth.
I think there may be a monument erected to James Clyburn. Who is most responsible for Biden's election victory and a black woman to be a justice on the supreme court? It may even be his favorite, South Carolina Judge Michelle Childs.
'Childs moved to Columbia at age 13. She attended Columbia High School and received her undergraduate degree from the University of South Florida before earning her J.D. at the University of South Carolina School of Law. She also holds a M.A. from the University of South Carolina School of Business and an LL.M from Duke University School of Law.' (wspa)
Clyburn isn't the only one to support her The white working-class and other groups aren't alone in their distaste for the elites/ivy leaguers, etc., several prominent Black people want a supreme court justice who is one of us commoners.
Ok, TC, are you saying it doesn't matter? A Black woman on the supreme court does matter. It may even speed up voter suppression and election nullification.
It's interesting to ponder this issue. Brennan and Marshall would have had to retire much earlier in their tenures--in the Carter presidency. I don't know whether that would have been reasonable to expect or not. Both of them wanted to make it through the Bush administration to a Democrat, but each was in failing health. Marshall died early in Clinton's presidency--he was supposed to inaugurate Al Gore and was too sick, and he even said when he retired and a reporter asked why that he did so because he was falling apart. Brennan lived until 1997, but I know he was physically in bad shape. I would rather have a very sick liberal who can barely function than any right-winger, but their situations may have been a little different--as opposed to Warren, who should have gone before an election year, or Ginsburg.
But then again, Scalia died while Obama was president. And republicans knew what to do. The bigger issue to me has always been the jackasses in the media--and I confess they include people I know and like--who still claim that Obama should have found a way to force a confirmation hearing. I can think of things he could have done, but I'm not sure even that would have gone anywhere. I would have been quite happy to declare I was cutting off all federal money to Kentucky, including Social Security and Medicare. But I'm not a nice person.
Glad you're back up and running again! Yes - there seems to be too much attention to the individual ISM instead of understanding one's place and role as part of a larger movement of bending the arc of moral universe toward justice. I'm not sure so called liberals pay attention to anything beyond their own success actually. The right wing has had a project they have been working for several generations now. That is one more reason they have finally reached the point of right wing extremism that can now be called Fascism. Look at all the "conservative" movements and organizations that got their start during the 2 Reagan terms. They are fully rooted in the body politic now with their think tanks pumping out poison that people take without asking questions about why if it's so good for us it tastes so bad! I hope by now you've read Jane Mayer's newest article in The New Yorker about Ginni Thomas (the 10th justice on the SCOTUS) and all her organizations intent on ending democracy. It is quite an article and well worth googling every organization and its leadership she names. Lots of clean up ahead for generations if we survive this moment and can send of few of the culprits to prison. It will be a long hard journey back to sanity I'm sure. But it must be done.
I think about your essays daily and go back and read one to refresh and set sometimes. So you haven’t been gone. Sometimes a hypothesis, educated guess or opinion needs float time if sprouted from a historian’s mindset.
Screw the persnickety facetiousness of the internet. Doesn’t really change a dang thing. If it’s true.
TC, Your equation of liberal justices' denial of their mortality = the death of a liberal Supreme Court represents its tombstone and the sorry truth.
I think there may be a monument erected to James Clyburn. Who is most responsible for Biden's election victory and a black woman to be a justice on the supreme court? It may even be his favorite, South Carolina Judge Michelle Childs.
'Childs moved to Columbia at age 13. She attended Columbia High School and received her undergraduate degree from the University of South Florida before earning her J.D. at the University of South Carolina School of Law. She also holds a M.A. from the University of South Carolina School of Business and an LL.M from Duke University School of Law.' (wspa)
Clyburn isn't the only one to support her The white working-class and other groups aren't alone in their distaste for the elites/ivy leaguers, etc., several prominent Black people want a supreme court justice who is one of us commoners.
Ok, TC, are you saying it doesn't matter? A Black woman on the supreme court does matter. It may even speed up voter suppression and election nullification.
It's interesting to ponder this issue. Brennan and Marshall would have had to retire much earlier in their tenures--in the Carter presidency. I don't know whether that would have been reasonable to expect or not. Both of them wanted to make it through the Bush administration to a Democrat, but each was in failing health. Marshall died early in Clinton's presidency--he was supposed to inaugurate Al Gore and was too sick, and he even said when he retired and a reporter asked why that he did so because he was falling apart. Brennan lived until 1997, but I know he was physically in bad shape. I would rather have a very sick liberal who can barely function than any right-winger, but their situations may have been a little different--as opposed to Warren, who should have gone before an election year, or Ginsburg.
But then again, Scalia died while Obama was president. And republicans knew what to do. The bigger issue to me has always been the jackasses in the media--and I confess they include people I know and like--who still claim that Obama should have found a way to force a confirmation hearing. I can think of things he could have done, but I'm not sure even that would have gone anywhere. I would have been quite happy to declare I was cutting off all federal money to Kentucky, including Social Security and Medicare. But I'm not a nice person.
Glad you're back up and running again! Yes - there seems to be too much attention to the individual ISM instead of understanding one's place and role as part of a larger movement of bending the arc of moral universe toward justice. I'm not sure so called liberals pay attention to anything beyond their own success actually. The right wing has had a project they have been working for several generations now. That is one more reason they have finally reached the point of right wing extremism that can now be called Fascism. Look at all the "conservative" movements and organizations that got their start during the 2 Reagan terms. They are fully rooted in the body politic now with their think tanks pumping out poison that people take without asking questions about why if it's so good for us it tastes so bad! I hope by now you've read Jane Mayer's newest article in The New Yorker about Ginni Thomas (the 10th justice on the SCOTUS) and all her organizations intent on ending democracy. It is quite an article and well worth googling every organization and its leadership she names. Lots of clean up ahead for generations if we survive this moment and can send of few of the culprits to prison. It will be a long hard journey back to sanity I'm sure. But it must be done.
Interesting, as always.
I think about your essays daily and go back and read one to refresh and set sometimes. So you haven’t been gone. Sometimes a hypothesis, educated guess or opinion needs float time if sprouted from a historian’s mindset.
Screw the persnickety facetiousness of the internet. Doesn’t really change a dang thing. If it’s true.
Love to you TC!
Welcome back, you tell it TC!