Ketanji Brown Jackson is eminently qualified for the Supreme Court, but her confirmation hearings are likely to reflect how pernicious and, at times, unhinged the partisan discourse in Washington has become, tnyCloseRead writes.
, will not be cozy—quite the opposite. They are likely to reflect not only how the Court has become a paramount political and ideological battleground but how pernicious and, at times, unhinged the partisan discourse in Washington has become. Breyer’s retirement letter offered a qualification: he intended to leave when the term ends this summer, “assuming that by then my successor has been nominated and confirmed.
Biden didn’t include any explicit mention of ideology in his praise of Breyer—not the Justice’s defense of reproductive rights over the years, his votes to uphold the Affordable Care Act and in affirmation of marriage equality, nor his increasingly passionate and occasionally lonely.
Presumably, the Biden team figured that a hint of anything else might provoke some unpleasantness. If so, they may have been right: later in the speech, when Biden began talking about service members who had struggled with cancer , as his late son Beau did, Representative Lauren Boebert began heckling the President. It was a low moment that other members responded to with boos.
It’s hard to find an exact recent analogy to that particular bit of political theatre, with a sitting Justice whose retirement is already in the works and a successor designated. In 2006,
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