9 Republican Senators voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor, 5 voted for Elena Kagan, and 3 voted for Ketanji Brown Jackson, which was necessary to grant her a majority.
Apart from McConnell refusing to bring Garland up for a vote, parties have been confirming their opposition’s nominees for decades.
You can make specific arguments for why Thomas was unfit due to harassment accusations, but merely not blocking new Justices from appointment because they hold ideologies of the party nominating them has long been the standard.
You can push for someone less ideological than Bork, but don’t fault people for working together in the past to keep the government functional.
Did you read that link and your take away was that Biden just voted for Clarence?
It’s ok if you did t already know how involved Biden was, I mean, I guess it is, it’s come up a lot since his last election…
But the link’s right there bro.
If you read it, and that was seriously you’re take away tho…
I don’t know how I can explain it in a way that would be any different. Like, I can’t simplify it anymore than that article does, that’s why I linked it.
I think you just didn’t even click it, let alone read it, and that’s the most charitable interpretation of your comment.
But essentially:
but merely not blocking new Justices from appointment because they hold ideologies of the party nominating them has long been the standard.
Thomas was a serial sexual abuser, and Biden swept it under the rug.
Normalizing that behavior (and worse) for futer SC picks. Thomas was the begining of the end for the SC, and Biden is why he ever made it there.
9 Republican Senators voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor, 5 voted for Elena Kagan, and 3 voted for Ketanji Brown Jackson, which was necessary to grant her a majority.
Apart from McConnell refusing to bring Garland up for a vote, parties have been confirming their opposition’s nominees for decades.
You can make specific arguments for why Thomas was unfit due to harassment accusations, but merely not blocking new Justices from appointment because they hold ideologies of the party nominating them has long been the standard.
You can push for someone less ideological than Bork, but don’t fault people for working together in the past to keep the government functional.
Ok…
Did you read that link and your take away was that Biden just voted for Clarence?
It’s ok if you did t already know how involved Biden was, I mean, I guess it is, it’s come up a lot since his last election…
But the link’s right there bro.
If you read it, and that was seriously you’re take away tho…
I don’t know how I can explain it in a way that would be any different. Like, I can’t simplify it anymore than that article does, that’s why I linked it.
I think you just didn’t even click it, let alone read it, and that’s the most charitable interpretation of your comment.
But essentially:
Thomas was a serial sexual abuser, and Biden swept it under the rug.
Normalizing that behavior (and worse) for futer SC picks. Thomas was the begining of the end for the SC, and Biden is why he ever made it there.