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Summary
MAGA has turned on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, after she sided against Trump in two recent 5-4 rulings.
Online critics accuse her of disloyalty, with some even calling her a “DEI judge.”
Barrett has consistently ruled in favor of conservative causes but has occasionally taken a more independent approach. However, Trump supporters expect personal loyalty from the justices.
The backlash mirrors previous attacks on judges ruling against Trump, raising concerns about threats and judicial independence.
Ironically, ACB really is a DEI hire with the undertone of “unqualified” they use. At the time Trump was either pressured or he had otherwise promised he’d nominate a woman.
ACB has less than HALF of the experience of any other SCOTUS judge, Kavanaugh included. She was blatantly unqualified.
Clarence Thomas has entered the chat.
Not only wasn’t he the most qualified judge, he wasn’t the most qualified Black judge, and he wasn’t even the most qualified Black conservative judge.
The irony is that he was very interested in the civil rights movement as a student. (And let’s face it, this is not surprising for a Black student from the late 60’s/early 70’s.) And he was a bright student, he got accepted unto many law schools and was one of only 12 black law students at Yale. He’s not a moron.
And when he graduated from Yale, and sought a job in private practice, he found that law firms assumed he must have gotten his degree because of affirmative action, and not on his merit. So, having experienced systemic racism firsthand, he sought to root it out everywhere…
… Sike! That’s not it at all. Rather than blame the racist law partners who assumed nobody with that much melanin could graduate from Yale without help, he blamed Yale for giving him a “worthless degree” with the taint of affirmative action all over it, and embarked on a career dedicated to tearing down anything that would help minority groups. No wonder Republicans like him so much.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas
There was a time when Clarence’s mindlessly textualist dissents were basically a drinking game for Law Students. Take a shot every time he mentions that something didn’t exist in 1789! He was also famous for never, ever asking questions in oral arguments. Then of course there are the famous complaints about salary. Dude simply does not give a fuck, but that kind of committed disdain for the institution ended up serving him well as the GOP sank down to meet him.
Did the others have a history of being a sex pest and easy to buy off with an RV worth a couple hundred thousand dollars?
That’s why Thomas was picked, he was a useful idiot.
That was before I started paying attention so I’m unfamiliar with his nomination process
If you have time for drama, look up Anita Hill.
Thomas’s nomination was a giant shit show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill
https://wams.nyhistory.org/end-of-the-twentieth-century/the-information-age/anita-hills-testimony/
Thomas’ confirmation hearings are now the template for all of them because they were so batshit insane.
The republiQans hate getting a calm, competent, immenently qualified judge like Kagan where they got nothing.
This would be true, but all of Trump’s appointees are underqualified, so it’s on par for him.
Kavanaugh had the necessary professional experience, on par with the rest of SCOTUS at the time. It’s just that he’s so clearly partisan, that he should not have been confirmed by the senate.
Also, had he had an actual backbone, he would have let the FBI run and finish his background check. Allegations are allegations. People may lie. The FBI should have run the full investigation to see if the allegations had merit or not. But this didn’t happen. Therefore, in my opinion, he is unqualified even if he didn’t commit sexual assault
His crybaby blubbering “I like beer” temper tantrum is pretty disqualifying IMO
Well, yes. I’m saying his legal career on paper made him look qualified. What made him look unqualified was, well, (IMO) everything not directly related to his legal work.
The perjury he was doing while testifying to Congress was also enough in my book as well as his beer outburst trying to respond to Klobuchar.
I’m addition to his sexual assault history, the FBI should have been allowed to look into the large amount of gambling debt that disappeared when journalists looked into it, and his alcoholism. Any of those should be disqualifying for the highest Court in the country.
Many of Trump’s appointees have been highly qualified. He usually ends up firing them and calling them idiots.
You must be talking about his first term. Even then, some of them were…. yeah
Reince Priebus was Trump’s first Chief of Staff. He was a big wig in the GOP with tons of Washington experience. Totally qualified for the job, iirc he lasted less than a month.