Zone1 Here’s a fair amount of reparations, and who should get it

[22lcidw]

Inflation is a global problem, Lisa. It starts with the fact that the cost of commodities of all sorts are going up.

In my day job, the cost of steel has increased by 56% over the last year.

Here's a fast way to bring down inflation, drop all the Trump Tariffs on Chinese goods...

This discussion has nothing to do with the issue of reparations, of course.

We live off of Chinese slavery. We get massive government programs taxing us at high rates and need foreign workers to provide us with products.

 

[Lisa558]

Ha!! You hit it straight on. I went to buy some groceries this morning. I was still feeling the pain as I wrote my last post. Biden is doing everything he can to create a nation of deadbeats.

Yes, that is Biden’s plan - as orchestrated by the Marxist Democrats. The prices in the grocery store are so shocking that the previously comfortable middle class is feeling the pain. He wants to drive everyone into government dependency.

Willingly take a loan to pay for college and now don't want to repay it? No problem. Not to worry... the government will send you a check.

IKR? Biden is “forgiving” loans of the very group most poised to earn six-figure incomes and live lives of affluence, and at the expense of the regular working class being crushed by his inflation.

Dropping babies like a farm animal? Can't get their daddies to support them? Are you too damned dumb to keep your knees together? No problem. Biden will have the government send your worthless ass a monthly check (thanks to your working neighbors).

The Democrats reward irresponsible behavior and punish successful behavior. Any country that has that as its basis is doomed to failure.

What the Hell has happened to this country?

The country is unrecognizable with the anti-Americans at the helm. It started with Obama, but never was it more apparent when Biden gave a primetime speech dedicated to demonizing half (or more) of all Republicans for pushing back against the Democrats.

Have someone who MIGHT have been a slave, or who was mistreated in some long ago lifetime? Don't worry. Just become a professional whiner. Bitch, cry, and moan until dumbasses who are bleeding hearts and happen to be white are FORCED by the government to send your disgusting lazy ass a reparations check.

At least we can take solace that we are old enough to never see such a travesty of justice happen.

We are blessed to live in the greatest nation ever created. A place where, with hard work, intelligence, dedication and vision, virtually no dream is out of reach. A nation where MERIT was the golden key.

Agree. But now we have being black, and specifically being black and female as the golden key. When you narrow your job selections down to 6% of the population, the odds are 94% that you did not get the candidate best qualified. Another way to doom the country.

Where did all the deadbeats come from? The whiners? The thieves and thugs. The kneelers. The whining Griners.

We have to find a way to rid our nation of this stinking, steaming, pile of shit. A good start will be to vote Biden and all of his congressional enablers out of office.

Yes, the start to getting rid of the whiners and the deadbeats is throw Biden and his manipulators out of office. The problem is that we won’t have the votes in the Senate to do that, and even if we did, we’d be stuck with incompetent Black Female picked for color and gender, and it would be more of the same.

Our best early hope is to take the House and stop Biden from further damage. Then, in 2024, take the WH and reverse his destruction, if it’s not too late by then.

 

[JoeB131]

Yes, that is Biden’s plan - as orchestrated by the Marxist Democrats. The prices in the grocery store are so shocking that the previously comfortable middle class is feeling the pain. He wants to drive everyone into government dependency.

Right, because a minor 8% inflation is going to kill us, really!

IKR? Biden is “forgiving” loans of the very group most poised to earn six-figure incomes and live lives of affluence, and at the expense of the regular working class being crushed by his inflation.

As opposed to all the Republican businesses that got PPP loans during Trump Plague they aren't ever going to pay back? Who is paying for that?

The country is unrecognizable with the anti-Americans at the helm. It started with Obama, but never was it more apparent when Biden gave a primetime speech dedicated to demonizing half (or more) of all Republicans for pushing back against the Democrats.

You mean the crazy, racist half of the GOP?

Agree. But now we have being black, and specifically being black and female as the golden key. When you narrow your job selections down to 6% of the population, the odds are 94% that you did not get the candidate best qualified. Another way to doom the country.

Again, your side made Dan Quayle VP. Who thought THAT was a good idea. You tried to make Palin VP as well. That was before you put the Game Show Host in and he proceeded to screw up everything. You guys don't get to talk about "Qualifications".

Yes, the start to getting rid of the whiners and the deadbeats is throw Biden and his manipulators out of office. The problem is that we won’t have the votes in the Senate to do that, and even if we did, we’d be stuck with incompetent Black Female picked for color and gender, and it would be more of the same.

Our best early hope is to take the House and stop Biden from further damage. Then, in 2024, take the WH and reverse his destruction, if it’s not too late by then.

That plan didn't work in 1995 and it didn't work in 2010. Clinton and Obama got re-elected easily.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Right, because a minor 8% inflation is going to kill us, really!




As opposed to all the Republican businesses that got PPP loans during Trump Plague they aren't ever going to pay back? Who is paying for that?



You mean the crazy, racist half of the GOP?



Again, your side made Dan Quayle VP. Who thought THAT was a good idea. You tried to make Palin VP as well. That was before you put the Game Show Host in and he proceeded to screw up everything. You guys don't get to talk about "Qualifications".



That plan didn't work in 1995 and it didn't work in 2010. Clinton and Obama got re-elected easily.

Minor inflation? That figure excludes fuel and food prices. Add them in and inflation is probably higher than twenty percent.

 

[Man of Ethics]

*This was based on the $290 per month, calculated in 1988, and paid by Germany to DIRECT Holocaut survivors, indexed for inflation.

Sadly, Germany paid very little to Jewish survivors.

Nevertheless, Germany had to pay very much for their crimes against USSR. Soviet Union had real power. Sadly, Jewish people did not have as much power.

 

[IM2]

Yes, that is Biden’s plan - as orchestrated by the Marxist Democrats. The prices in the grocery store are so shocking that the previously comfortable middle class is feeling the pain. He wants to drive everyone into government dependency.


IKR? Biden is “forgiving” loans of the very group most poised to earn six-figure incomes and live lives of affluence, and at the expense of the regular working class being crushed by his inflation.



The Democrats reward irresponsible behavior and punish successful behavior. Any country that has that as its basis is doomed to failure.


The country is unrecognizable with the anti-Americans at the helm. It started with Obama, but never was it more apparent when Biden gave a primetime speech dedicated to demonizing half (or more) of all Republicans for pushing back against the Democrats.


At least we can take solace that we are old enough to never see such a travesty of justice happen.


Agree. But now we have being black, and specifically being black and female as the golden key. When you narrow your job selections down to 6% of the population, the odds are 94% that you did not get the candidate best qualified. Another way to doom the country.

Yes, the start to getting rid of the whiners and the deadbeats is throw Biden and his manipulators out of office. The problem is that we won’t have the damage they do votes in the Senate to do that, and even if we did, we’d be stuck with incompetent Black Female picked for color and gender, and it would be more of the same.

Our best early hope is to take the House and stop Biden from further damage. Then, in 2024, take the WH and reverse his destruction, if it’s not too late by then.

You know Lisa, I'm tired of your crap. All you do is attack blacks then cry if we call it what it is.

Go do some research on Kitanje Brown-Jackson. She had more bench experience that Cheif Justice Roberts. There are 9 justices, 7 are white. Do you wonder about their qualifications or are whites all just automatcally moew qualified?

We don't want to go back to white supremacy. Throughout this country's history whites have been given things without considering qualifications. You are a living example of a national psychosis that is prevalent in right wing whites. Right wingers like you never once think that anyone who is not white can actually be smarter, more educated, skilled and motivated than anyone white. And there is a word for people who believe whites are better than everybody else.

There were 7 whites on the supreme court, is that not enough? Neither Coney-Barrett, Kavanaugh, or Gorsuch, had the qualifications Jackson had. It's time you understood that in 2022 whites are not always the best qualified.

Finally, if republicans get congress, America is dead. The only anti Americans are people like you. You are the one practicing irresponsible behavior and it is because of people like you and your belief that white is always better, that America has not, cannot and will not ever be as great as it can be.

 

[DGS49]

I'll go with percentages. Less than 3% of American Bar members are Black women. The chances that she was the most qualified are...non-existent.

Years on the bench are fairly meaningless. They look for exceptional legal minds, as demonstrated in research, trial work, appellate court work, etc.

When she starts to write opinions, those who have the legal IQ to assess her work will know...not that it makes any difference. Sotomayor is a virtual idiot, and she's still a justice in good standing.

 

[Man of Ethics]

In essence, Holocaust was neither punished nor compensated. Jews really do not have much power.


Nazi crimes against USSR resulted in a significant retribution. USSR was one of the two great superpowers.

 

[IM2]

You are not allowed to do what you’re doing and have been reported.

P.S. You are claiming that I’ve said things I never have. You lie.

Lisa you are not allowed to do what you've been doing. But you keep on. And go look at your threads and posts. I am say exactly what you are saying.

 

[IM2]

you missed the point, it would not be a problem if people did not continually say it is.

It's a problem because people continue to do it.

 

[IM2]

I HATE the idea of paying reparations in large part because of what your response to IQ2 demonstrates so well.

In my personal experience, many --- far too many --- blacks are flat out freeloaders. Period. I've known so many cons, hustlers, and liars in that community, that it's hard for me to believe so many people cannot, or will not, see it.

Blacks will NEVER be satisfied. They think they are owed a living. It's necessary to speak in generalities about these things because it's impossible to speak to isolated cases.

Hell, look at crump, Jackson, Sharpton - they could all be earning an honest living, but they've all gotten rich by hustling white idiots who treat them seriously.

We should put a lock on the cash box. No more fucking handouts. Let them get off their dead ass and work for what they want, just as other people do.

End Affirmative Action. Say NO to reparations. End ALL handouts, immediately.

Blacks can choose to assimilate and finally truly become Americans, or not. It's their choice. Sink or swim. Shit, or get off the fucking pot.

Quit begging, or you'll make people hate you - more than they already do.

There .... I feel Sooo much better.

You make me laugh. The record shows that the biggest freeloaders have been white. Specifically white men. You've been given every handout in the book. You have been given AA for 256 years. So you really sound quite dumb when you post what you do. You need to assimilate to modern America. The days of white male only rule is over.

 

[IM2]

I'll go with percentages. Less than 3% of American Bar members are Black women. The chances that she was the most qualified are...non-existent.

Years on the bench are fairly meaningless. They look for exceptional legal minds, as demonstrated in research, trial work, appellate court work, etc.

When she starts to write opinions, those who have the legal IQ to assess her work will know...not that it makes any difference. Sotomayor is a virtual idiot, and she's still a justice in good standing.

Actually the chances she was the most qualified are better than good. Again, there were 7 whites on the court. There are 6 now. So you guys can stop whining because a white person wasn't given another seat.

So let's compare.

Amy Coney Barrett​

Legal career​

Clerkships and private practice​

Barrett spent two years as a judicial law clerk after law school, first for judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 1998, and then for justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1998 to 1999.[35]

From 1999 to 2002, Barrett practiced law at Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin, a boutique law firm for litigation in Washington, D.C., that merged with the Houston, Texas-based law firm Baker Botts in 2001.[34][36] While at Baker Botts, she worked on Bush v. Gore, the lawsuit that grew out of the 2000 United States presidential election, providing research and briefing assistance for the firm's representation of George W. Bush.[37][38]

Teaching and scholarship​

In 2001, Barrett was a visiting associate professor and John M. Olin Fellow in Law at George Washington University Law School. In 2002, she joined the faculty of her alma mater, Notre Dame Law School.[39] At Notre Dame, she taught federal courts, evidence, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation. In 2007, she was a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.[40] Barrett was named a professor of law at Notre Dame in 2010, and from 2014 to 2017 held Notre Dame's Diane and M.O. Miller II Research Chair of Law.[41] Her scholarship focused on constitutional law, originalism, statutory interpretation, and stare decisis.[33] Her academic work has been published in the Columbia, Cornell, Virginia, Notre Dame, and Texas law reviews.[39]

At Notre Dame, Barrett received the "Distinguished Professor of the Year" award three times.[39] From 2011 to 2016, she spoke on constitutional law at Blackstone Legal Fellowship, a summer program for law school students that the Alliance Defending Freedom established to inspire a "distinctly Christian worldview in every area of law".[42] While serving on the Seventh Circuit, Barrett commuted between Chicago and South Bend, continuing to teach courses on statutory interpretation and constitutional theory.

In 2010, Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Barrett to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.[39]

Circuit Court of Appeals (2017–2020)

Ketanji Brown Jackson​

Early career​

After law school, Jackson served as a law clerk to judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1996 to 1997, then to judge Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1997 to 1998. She spent a year in private practice at the Washington, D.C. law firm Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin (now part of Baker Botts), then clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer from 1999 to 2000.

Jackson worked in private legal practice from 2000 to 2003, first at the law firm Goodwin Procter from 2000 to 2002, then with Kenneth Feinberg at the law firm now called Feinberg & Rozen LLP from 2002 to 2003.[24] From 2003 to 2005, she was an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission. From 2005 to 2007, Jackson was an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., where she handled cases before U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.[26] A Washington Post review of cases Jackson handled during her time as a public defender showed that "she won uncommon victories against the government that shortened or erased lengthy prison terms".[27] From 2007 to 2010, Jackson was an appellate specialist in private practice at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster.

U.S. Sentencing Commission (2010–2014)
On July 23, 2009, Barack Obama nominated Jackson to become vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jackson by unanimous consent on February 11, 2010. She succeeded Michael E. Horowitz, who had served from 2003 until 2009. Jackson served on the Sentencing Commission until 2014. During her time on the commission, it retroactively amended the Sentencing Guidelines to reduce the guideline range for crack cocaine offenses,[4] and enacted the "drugs minus two" amendment, which implemented a two offense-level reduction for drug crimes.

District Court judge (2013–2021)​

On September 20, 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to serve as a U.S. district judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by retiring judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. Jackson was introduced at her December 2012 confirmation hearing by Republican Paul Ryan, a relative through marriage, who said "Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji's intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal." On February 14, 2013, her nomination was reported to the full Senate by voice vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote on March 22, 2013. She received her commission on March 26, 2013 and was sworn in by Justice Breyer in May 2013

During her time on the District Court, Jackson wrote multiple decisions adverse to the positions of the Trump administration. In her opinion ordering Trump's former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a legislative subpoena, she wrote "presidents are not kings". Jackson handled a number of challenges to executive agency actions that raised questions of administrative law. She also issued rulings in several cases that gained particular political attention.

Court of Appeals (2021–2022)

Brown did not spend years teaching law. She steadily practiced law, and became a judge. She was more qualified than Coney-Barrett and if I pull up Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, she probably beats them as well.

 

[AZrailwhale]

You make me laugh. The record shows that the biggest freeloaders have been white. Specifically white men. You've been given every handout in the book. You have been given AA for 256 years. So you really sound quite dumb when you post what you do. You need to assimilate to modern America. The days of white male only rule is over.

White men built this country. They cleared the hardwood forests of the east coast to make room for family farms and eventually cities. They invented the industrial processes that forged the sinews of the USA. They labored in the mines bring out iron and coal to fuel those factories. They built the vast cities and the shipyards that built the ships that took manufactured goods and raw material all over the world. They broke the vast praries into productive farms with mule and ox drawn plows built in factories manned by white men. Whites were given no hand-outs, they had to bleed and sweat not only for everything they accumulated, but your ancestors’ freedom as well.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Actually the chances she was the most qualified are better than good. Again, there were 7 whites on the court. There are 6 now. So you guys can stop whining because a white person wasn't given another seat.

So let's compare.

Amy Coney Barrett​

Legal career​

Clerkships and private practice​

Barrett spent two years as a judicial law clerk after law school, first for judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 1998, and then for justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1998 to 1999.[35]

From 1999 to 2002, Barrett practiced law at Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin, a boutique law firm for litigation in Washington, D.C., that merged with the Houston, Texas-based law firm Baker Botts in 2001.[34][36] While at Baker Botts, she worked on Bush v. Gore, the lawsuit that grew out of the 2000 United States presidential election, providing research and briefing assistance for the firm's representation of George W. Bush.[37][38]

Teaching and scholarship​

In 2001, Barrett was a visiting associate professor and John M. Olin Fellow in Law at George Washington University Law School. In 2002, she joined the faculty of her alma mater, Notre Dame Law School.[39] At Notre Dame, she taught federal courts, evidence, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation. In 2007, she was a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.[40] Barrett was named a professor of law at Notre Dame in 2010, and from 2014 to 2017 held Notre Dame's Diane and M.O. Miller II Research Chair of Law.[41] Her scholarship focused on constitutional law, originalism, statutory interpretation, and stare decisis.[33] Her academic work has been published in the Columbia, Cornell, Virginia, Notre Dame, and Texas law reviews.[39]

At Notre Dame, Barrett received the "Distinguished Professor of the Year" award three times.[39] From 2011 to 2016, she spoke on constitutional law at Blackstone Legal Fellowship, a summer program for law school students that the Alliance Defending Freedom established to inspire a "distinctly Christian worldview in every area of law".[42] While serving on the Seventh Circuit, Barrett commuted between Chicago and South Bend, continuing to teach courses on statutory interpretation and constitutional theory.

In 2010, Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Barrett to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.[39]

Circuit Court of Appeals (2017–2020)

Ketanji Brown Jackson​

Early career​

After law school, Jackson served as a law clerk to judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1996 to 1997, then to judge Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1997 to 1998. She spent a year in private practice at the Washington, D.C. law firm Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin (now part of Baker Botts), then clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer from 1999 to 2000.

Jackson worked in private legal practice from 2000 to 2003, first at the law firm Goodwin Procter from 2000 to 2002, then with Kenneth Feinberg at the law firm now called Feinberg & Rozen LLP from 2002 to 2003.[24] From 2003 to 2005, she was an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission. From 2005 to 2007, Jackson was an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., where she handled cases before U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.[26] A Washington Post review of cases Jackson handled during her time as a public defender showed that "she won uncommon victories against the government that shortened or erased lengthy prison terms".[27] From 2007 to 2010, Jackson was an appellate specialist in private practice at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster.

U.S. Sentencing Commission (2010–2014)
On July 23, 2009, Barack Obama nominated Jackson to become vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jackson by unanimous consent on February 11, 2010. She succeeded Michael E. Horowitz, who had served from 2003 until 2009. Jackson served on the Sentencing Commission until 2014. During her time on the commission, it retroactively amended the Sentencing Guidelines to reduce the guideline range for crack cocaine offenses,[4] and enacted the "drugs minus two" amendment, which implemented a two offense-level reduction for drug crimes.

District Court judge (2013–2021)​

On September 20, 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to serve as a U.S. district judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by retiring judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. Jackson was introduced at her December 2012 confirmation hearing by Republican Paul Ryan, a relative through marriage, who said "Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji's intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal." On February 14, 2013, her nomination was reported to the full Senate by voice vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote on March 22, 2013. She received her commission on March 26, 2013 and was sworn in by Justice Breyer in May 2013

During her time on the District Court, Jackson wrote multiple decisions adverse to the positions of the Trump administration. In her opinion ordering Trump's former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a legislative subpoena, she wrote "presidents are not kings". Jackson handled a number of challenges to executive agency actions that raised questions of administrative law. She also issued rulings in several cases that gained particular political attention.

Court of Appeals (2021–2022)

Brown did not spend years teaching law. She steadily practiced law, and became a judge. She was more qualified than Coney-Barrett and if I pull up Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, she probably beats them as well.

You really should read your C&Ps before commenting on them. Jackson taught for fifteen years. She practiced law for ten years INCLUDING the three years she spent as a law clerk. In the seven years she actually worked as a lawyer, she worked for three different law firms and two different governmental agencies. That means she averaged less than eighteen months per job. That’s not the sign of a successful career or an employee that was valued by her employers. She spent five years on a sentencing commission, that’s a political patronage job, not one based on competence.

 

[JoeB131]

You know Lisa, I'm tired of your crap. All you do is attack blacks then cry if we call it what it is.

Go do some research on Kitanje Brown-Jackson. She had more bench experience that Cheif Justice Roberts. There are 9 justices, 7 are white. Do you wonder about their qualifications or are whites all just automatcally moew qualified?

Actually, six are white. Thomas and Jackson are black and Sotomayor is Hispanic. Just keeping you honest here.

We don't want to go back to white supremacy. Throughout this country's history whites have been given things without considering qualifications. You are a living example of a national psychosis that is prevalent in right wing whites. Right wingers like you never once think that anyone who is not white can actually be smarter, more educated, skilled and motivated than anyone white. And there is a word for people who believe whites are better than everybody else.

But here's the thing. At the end of the day, it should be the decision of the business owner who to hire. Not the government and not some race pimp like Rev. Al. If you don't like it, start your own businesses and hire a bunch of black people and show the rest of us how it's done. Oh, wait, no, when a black person gets rich, they hire white people to do the scrub work. Just ask Oprah.

There were 7 whites on the supreme court, is that not enough? Neither Coney-Barrett, Kavanaugh, or Gorsuch, had the qualifications Jackson had. It's time you understood that in 2022 whites are not always the best qualified.

Actually, we have a long history of hiring hacks to SCOTUS. If we appointed the most qualified, we'd appoint judges in their 60's and they wouldn't last that long.

Finally, if republicans get congress, America is dead. The only anti Americans are people like you. You are the one practicing irresponsible behavior and it is because of people like you and your belief that white is always better, that America has not, cannot and will not ever be as great as it can be.

Can we ratchet down the hysteria just a tiny bit, please. Republicans will take the house because of Gerrymandering, and because white folks have gotten a little sick of the crime that happened after the Floyd riots. The Senate is still up in the air, it only matters if inflation trumps anger over Roe being repealed. If so, in my lifetime, I've seen one house of Congress or another change hands 13 times. (The Senate in 1980, 86, 94, 00, 02, 06, 14, 20 and the House in 94, 06, 10, 18) And what everyone finds is that it's easier to bitch about the problems than fix them.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

You know Lisa, I'm tired of your crap. All you do is attack blacks then cry if we call it what it is.

Go do some research on Kitanje Brown-Jackson. She had more bench experience that Cheif Justice Roberts. There are 9 justices, 7 are white. Do you wonder about their qualifications or are whites all just automatcally moew qualified?

We don't want to go back to white supremacy. Throughout this country's history whites have been given things without considering qualifications. You are a living example of a national psychosis that is prevalent in right wing whites. Right wingers like you never once think that anyone who is not white can actually be smarter, more educated, skilled and motivated than anyone white. And there is a word for people who believe whites are better than everybody else.

There were 7 whites on the supreme court, is that not enough? Neither Coney-Barrett, Kavanaugh, or Gorsuch, had the qualifications Jackson had. It's time you understood that in 2022 whites are not always the best qualified.

Finally, if republicans get congress, America is dead. The only anti Americans are people like you. You are the one practicing irresponsible behavior and it is because of people like you and your belief that white is always better, that America has not, cannot and will not ever be as great as it can be.

 

[Lisa558]

Sad how when someone suggests that people be selected based on qualifications rather than skin color, the black activist says we don’t want to go back to the days of “white supremacy.” Is he saying that blacks are all so poorly qualified that if we judge by ability and professional experience, we’d only have whites?

And I will repeat the math: when you limit yourself to selecting from 6% of the population, such as Biden did, the odds of the best qualified being picked is only 6%. The odds that the best qualified was not picked 94%.

This is the way to weaken America. Use racism and sexism as the priority in filling positions, rather than hiring the best, and the caliber of every industry and profession will suffer.

 

[Redfish]

It's a problem because people continue to do it.

bullshit!!! there is no discrimination in the US based on race. No matter who you are you can succeed if you have any kind of talent and work hard----------ask Oprah, one of the richest people on the planet. or Serena Williams, or Lebron James, or Will Smith. Were those people victims of discrimination? NO

 

[Redfish]

Actually the chances she was the most qualified are better than good. Again, there were 7 whites on the court. There are 6 now. So you guys can stop whining because a white person wasn't given another seat.

So let's compare.

Amy Coney Barrett​

Legal career​

Clerkships and private practice​

Barrett spent two years as a judicial law clerk after law school, first for judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 1998, and then for justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1998 to 1999.[35]

From 1999 to 2002, Barrett practiced law at Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin, a boutique law firm for litigation in Washington, D.C., that merged with the Houston, Texas-based law firm Baker Botts in 2001.[34][36] While at Baker Botts, she worked on Bush v. Gore, the lawsuit that grew out of the 2000 United States presidential election, providing research and briefing assistance for the firm's representation of George W. Bush.[37][38]

Teaching and scholarship​

In 2001, Barrett was a visiting associate professor and John M. Olin Fellow in Law at George Washington University Law School. In 2002, she joined the faculty of her alma mater, Notre Dame Law School.[39] At Notre Dame, she taught federal courts, evidence, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation. In 2007, she was a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.[40] Barrett was named a professor of law at Notre Dame in 2010, and from 2014 to 2017 held Notre Dame's Diane and M.O. Miller II Research Chair of Law.[41] Her scholarship focused on constitutional law, originalism, statutory interpretation, and stare decisis.[33] Her academic work has been published in the Columbia, Cornell, Virginia, Notre Dame, and Texas law reviews.[39]

At Notre Dame, Barrett received the "Distinguished Professor of the Year" award three times.[39] From 2011 to 2016, she spoke on constitutional law at Blackstone Legal Fellowship, a summer program for law school students that the Alliance Defending Freedom established to inspire a "distinctly Christian worldview in every area of law".[42] While serving on the Seventh Circuit, Barrett commuted between Chicago and South Bend, continuing to teach courses on statutory interpretation and constitutional theory.

In 2010, Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Barrett to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.[39]

Circuit Court of Appeals (2017–2020)

Ketanji Brown Jackson​

Early career​

After law school, Jackson served as a law clerk to judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1996 to 1997, then to judge Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1997 to 1998. She spent a year in private practice at the Washington, D.C. law firm Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin (now part of Baker Botts), then clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer from 1999 to 2000.

Jackson worked in private legal practice from 2000 to 2003, first at the law firm Goodwin Procter from 2000 to 2002, then with Kenneth Feinberg at the law firm now called Feinberg & Rozen LLP from 2002 to 2003.[24] From 2003 to 2005, she was an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission. From 2005 to 2007, Jackson was an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., where she handled cases before U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.[26] A Washington Post review of cases Jackson handled during her time as a public defender showed that "she won uncommon victories against the government that shortened or erased lengthy prison terms".[27] From 2007 to 2010, Jackson was an appellate specialist in private practice at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster.

U.S. Sentencing Commission (2010–2014)
On July 23, 2009, Barack Obama nominated Jackson to become vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jackson by unanimous consent on February 11, 2010. She succeeded Michael E. Horowitz, who had served from 2003 until 2009. Jackson served on the Sentencing Commission until 2014. During her time on the commission, it retroactively amended the Sentencing Guidelines to reduce the guideline range for crack cocaine offenses,[4] and enacted the "drugs minus two" amendment, which implemented a two offense-level reduction for drug crimes.

District Court judge (2013–2021)​

On September 20, 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to serve as a U.S. district judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by retiring judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. Jackson was introduced at her December 2012 confirmation hearing by Republican Paul Ryan, a relative through marriage, who said "Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji's intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal." On February 14, 2013, her nomination was reported to the full Senate by voice vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote on March 22, 2013. She received her commission on March 26, 2013 and was sworn in by Justice Breyer in May 2013

During her time on the District Court, Jackson wrote multiple decisions adverse to the positions of the Trump administration. In her opinion ordering Trump's former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a legislative subpoena, she wrote "presidents are not kings". Jackson handled a number of challenges to executive agency actions that raised questions of administrative law. She also issued rulings in several cases that gained particular political attention.

Court of Appeals (2021–2022)

Brown did not spend years teaching law. She steadily practiced law, and became a judge. She was more qualified than Coney-Barrett and if I pull up Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, she probably beats them as well.

and she was put on the SC not because of her background, but solely because of her race and gender (even though she cannot tell us what a woman is).

 

[JoeB131]

Sad how when someone suggests that people be selected based on qualifications rather than skin color, the black activist says we don’t want to go back to the days of “white supremacy.” Is he saying that blacks are all so poorly qualified that if we judge by ability and professional experience, we’d only have whites?

The problem is, "The best qualified" is a very subjective thing, isn't it. Robert Bork was considered "Qualified", but his views were so out there even Republicans couldn't get behind him.

And I will repeat the math: when you limit yourself to selecting from 6% of the population, such as Biden did, the odds of the best qualified being picked is only 6%. The odds that the best qualified was not picked 94%.

Okay, using that dubious logic. Trump only picked justices approved they Federalist Society... which is a lot smaller than 6% of the population. Which is how you got the mutants you go.

Amy "Serena Joy" Barrett was only picked because she was a woman, after the whole Kavanaugh Fiasco.

This is the way to weaken America. Use racism and sexism as the priority in filling positions, rather than hiring the best, and the caliber of every industry and profession will suffer.

Uh, really? Have you looked at your political leaders? None of them are the best and the brightest from EITHER Party.