TRUMP TAPS AMY CONEY BARRETT -- MEMO LAYS OUT TACTICS FOR OPPOSITION

[BeckyDem]

A new memo spells out the myriad options available to Sen. Chuck Schumer to delay confirmation of a new Supreme Court justice.

Ryan Grim
September 24 2020, 10:24 p.m.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, setting up a ferocious confirmation battle as votes are already being cast for the November 3 election.

Barrett, who was previously named to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals by Trump, is an outspoken social conservative, broadly hostile to abortion rights, and a strong supporter of corporate rights. Her confirmation would give conservatives a 6-3 majority on the Court, making Justice Brett Kavanaugh the swing vote, and would be the culmination of a decades-long strategy on the right to marry the pro-corporate, anti-worker, and anti-consumer movement with social conservatism.

Link to tweet

( excerpt) A memo circulating on Capitol Hill, put together by several people with knowledge of congressional procedure and obtained by The Intercept, lays out some of the options that could be available to Schumer even in the face of a determined Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Senators looking to obstruct in the Senate have a dizzying array of opportunities, but a majority leader with 50 votes, plus a tie-breaking vice president, also has an extraordinary amount of power in the upper chamber. Elements of the memo were first published earlier Thursday by the Daily Poster.

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/24/memo-laying-out-delay-tactics-circulates-among-senate-democrats/

[BeckyDem]

1. More on Barrett. ( A Trump Judge Votes to Allow Business to Racially Segregate its Workplaces )

Elliot Mincberg | December 4, 2017


Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. This post on Trump Judge Amy Coney Barrett is the first in this series.

As more and more judges nominated by President Trump are confirmed by the Republican Senate and start deciding cases, it is important to keep track of the harmful impact of their decisions on all of our rights and liberties. PFAW Foundation will do precisely that in our new “Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” blog series.

On November 21, Trump Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals joined four other Republican-appointed judges in refusing to rehear a three-judge panel decision (rendered by three of those four judges) about a workplace racial segregation case, United States EEOC v. Autozone Inc. Three other court of appeals judges–Judges Wood, Rovner, and Hamilton–nominated by both Democratic and Republican presidents, strongly dissented.

As these three dissenting judges explained, the panel decision had approved Autozone’s policy in Chicago of “segregating employees and intentionally assigning members of different races to different stores” because the particular employee who had complained to the EEOC after being transferred from one store to another had received a lateral transfer. He could not prove that the “intentional maintenance of racially segregated stores diminished” his “‘pay, benefits, or job responsibilities.’”

The three judges explained that this attempted return to the “separate but equal” doctrine was wrong under fair employment laws, just like it is under the Constitution, since “deliberate racial segregation by its very nature has an adverse effect on the people subjected to it.” In addition, not being able to work at their preferred location based on their race clearly has an adverse effect on an employee.

At the very least, the dissenting judges explained, the “importance of the question and the seriousness with which we must approach all racial classifications” made the case “worth the attention of the full court.” But Barrett voted against even having the full court of appeals consider the case.

https://www.pfaw.org/blog-posts/confirmed-judges-confirmed-fears-a-trump-judge-votes-to-allow-business-to-racially-segregate-its-workplaces/

[marble falls]

2. He's using her as a lightening rod. When we tear into her, he's hoping we fire up Evangelicals ...

come and vote for him.

I think he's made a serious miscalculation. She is not mainstream "Christian", she's not even mainstream Evangelical.

[BeckyDem]

3. Completely agree. He is always marketing non stop since 2016.