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Or, perhaps, throwing the first ball of the season:
The president has announced his intention to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court. Given that we don’t yet know the nominee, what’s your reaction to his statement?
I’d ask that we all accept the idea that excellence in itself has never been a requirement for the bench, so can we retire that old “select the absolute best without regard to sex or color?†That’s never happened and may never.
I see it as some balance to Clarence Thomas, as a political ploy. Also some reaction to the Right's persistent racism. I'm sure there are several very good candidates to choose from who meet his criteria. I'm thinking it would be nice to have a non-Catholic or Jew on the Court, just for some better balance. It would be nice if she was healthy and young, in terms of longevity, which Republicans figured out recently.
Any more reaction will have to wait to see the qualifications and character of his pick.
Or, perhaps, throwing the first ball of the season:
The president has announced his intention to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court. Given that we don’t yet know the nominee, what’s your reaction to his statement?
Wow. I guess I never think of campaign promises as something that can actually be fulfilled! Well, in that case I’d say he’s known who he’d propose since the campaign days.
Julia A 45’s quicker than 409 Betty’s cleaning’ house for the very last time Betty’s bein’ bad
Conservatives are losing their shyte over the possibility of a black, female SCOTUS judge. They are labeling doing so as "reverse racism."
The only reason why Conservatives even accept Clarence Thomas on the SCOTUS bench or accepted Ben Carson as a Department Secretary is because both are self-loathing black men, who desire the approval of their white peers and have bought into the idea that they’re “not like the others†of their own racial or ethnic group. They’ve bought into the dominant white culture’s bias against their own people, and deemed themselves to be righteous exceptions to the white conservative trumped-up rule.
...and having a self-appreciative black individual, be it a man or woman, making decisions for white conservatives is a bridge too far for them.
No offense, but women are naturally too emotional and unstable to be Supremes...
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
Hysterical conservative men seem to make it onto the SCOTUS bench all-of-the-time. Remember Clarence's "high-tech lynching" hyperbole?
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This is a circus. It’s a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you.
Clarence think for himself? He didn't ask one question during oral arguments before the SCOTUS for 10 years...preferring to crib from Antonin Scalia instead.
Remember when Roberts said,
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“Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules, they apply them.â€
...then goes and makes a rule that corporations are people too in 2010.
