Most ironic political demand of the year . . .
Most ironic political demand of the year . . .
It's time to retire! Democrats are shouting this at supreme court justices Elena Kagan (age 62), and Sonia Sotomayor (68).
No $hit. 100% true. Democrats really, really, are begging for these retirements, according to pieces in “Vox” and elsewhere. For those insulated from a diversity of political views, Vox is “progressive/left of center”, and in addition to its website promotes ifs views through YouTube, Netflix, podcasts, Twitter, etc.
So where's the irony? That an 80-year-old president with either senile dementia or sleeping sickness should remain in office, and appoint successors to SCOTUS justices decades younger than himself?
Or that Vox and similar sites are too effing stupid to be believed?
I'm going with “stupid”
By all accounts justices Kagan (the supreme court's first openly “enthusiastic female softball player”) and Sottomayor (“smarter than a typical wise Latino grandmother”) are more alert, harder working, and better able to speak without cue cards and easter bunny escorts than the president.
And if they decline in vigor – which probably won't be soon – hopefully they will do the right thing, and resign.
Does anyone believe Biden – given the chance – would discover and appoint replacement justices of higher caliber?
I don't regularly follow who votes how on the supreme court. So I can't cite a list of the decisions by left – or right leaning – justices that I disagree with. But I'm sure that if Kagan and Sottomayor were communists or Taleban apologists, someone would have told us.
All this conniving (getting rid of Kagan and Sottomayor) is of course predicated on worry that not only will Biden lose the white house to some republican in 2024, but congress might flip again too.
Hey, Vox unpopuli – the answer to that problem is straightforward. Run a democrat presidential candidate capable of actually governing and explaining his or her decisions.
Unless you don't have any . . . ?
It's time to retire! Democrats are shouting this at supreme court justices Elena Kagan (age 62), and Sonia Sotomayor (68).
No $hit. 100% true. Democrats really, really, are begging for these retirements, according to pieces in “Vox” and elsewhere. For those insulated from a diversity of political views, Vox is “progressive/left of center”, and in addition to its website promotes ifs views through YouTube, Netflix, podcasts, Twitter, etc.
So where's the irony? That an 80-year-old president with either senile dementia or sleeping sickness should remain in office, and appoint successors to SCOTUS justices decades younger than himself?
Or that Vox and similar sites are too effing stupid to be believed?
I'm going with “stupid”
By all accounts justices Kagan (the supreme court's first openly “enthusiastic female softball player”) and Sottomayor (“smarter than a typical wise Latino grandmother”) are more alert, harder working, and better able to speak without cue cards and easter bunny escorts than the president.
And if they decline in vigor – which probably won't be soon – hopefully they will do the right thing, and resign.
Does anyone believe Biden – given the chance – would discover and appoint replacement justices of higher caliber?
I don't regularly follow who votes how on the supreme court. So I can't cite a list of the decisions by left – or right leaning – justices that I disagree with. But I'm sure that if Kagan and Sottomayor were communists or Taleban apologists, someone would have told us.
All this conniving (getting rid of Kagan and Sottomayor) is of course predicated on worry that not only will Biden lose the white house to some republican in 2024, but congress might flip again too.
Hey, Vox unpopuli – the answer to that problem is straightforward. Run a democrat presidential candidate capable of actually governing and explaining his or her decisions.
Unless you don't have any . . . ?
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