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Barrett’s “view of the law is fundamentally cruel,” Terry H. Schwadron writes at Raw Story. “During her three years on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Barrett either has written or joined a remarkable number of opinions that harm unpopular and powerless individuals who rely on the judiciary to safeguard their rights.”

The fact that Barrett would even accept a Supreme Court nomination under these circumstances tells you what she is.

But her selection does guarantee that the Democrats will win. I would crawl to the polls if necessary; wouldn’t you?

But if you’d rather crawl to the mailbox, that’s cool, too.

Richard Brooks directing then-wife Jean Simmons in 1969’s The Happy Ending.What would then have been called a “mature” film about mature people. Somewhat takes off from Stanley Donen’s 1967 Two for the Road, which I also love, but much more sensitive to women’s empowerment and The Movement. Stellar-plus supporting cast. Simmons received an Oscar nomination.

“The incumbents refused to retire, and the courts were in the hands of the Oligarchy.”
Jack London
The Iron Heel
1908

They risk blowing another election. Even against Trump, the base may decide not to come out and vote for wimpy Democrats.

The learned helplessness evinced by the Democrats must be reprogrammed.

The Trumps have had so much surgical intervention that they may be paying some doctor a retainer. True to form, Trump’s accusation is once again a confession.

Sen. Feinstein claims that the filibuster is used less frequently now than in 1992!!!

Adam Jentleson corrects her by tweet: “She was elected in 1992. In her first two-year session of Congress from 1993-94 there were 80 filibusters. From 2013-14 (Democrats’ last two years in the majority) there were 252 filibusters.”

Eighty-seven-year-old Feinstein must not be Judiciary chair. It is time for the old Democratic guard to step back.They are the ones whose complacency and inertia has allowed the Republicans to take the country to this point.

The reason for the Republicans’ obscene haste in replacing Justice Ginsburg is that the new Supreme Court appointee will be counted on to decide in Trump”s favor when the upcoming election is contested.

This ghastly man hardly waited until Justice Ginsburg was cold to announce that his 2016 assault on the Constitution was just that and nothing more. Election year, election month be damned –he will turn on a dime and repudiate his earlier concocted “precedent” to ram through another right-wing justice.

The Dems caved in 2016.
Are they going to now?
Are they going to continue not to make the judiciary a campaign issue?

You cannot bring down a democracy without the systemic corruption of the justice system Barr is so flagrantly enacting.