Sen. Whitehouse Questions Judge Jackson on Day Two of Her Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

[BigBearJohn]

[ancianita]

2. Sheldon Whitehouse, a teacher of realpolitik.

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Sheldon Whitehouse cracks open the SCOTUS level of pro-frozen embryo, anti-woman plans executed by Republicans over the years; I think he implies that we'll soon 'connect the dots' about who their funders are

He lets Judge Jackson and the rest of us know the historical context of her nomination.
He did the same with Amy Coney Barrett.

One great moment -- how he maps these funders' corporate veil of politics. (Charles Koch said: "If you don't have the courts, you've got nothing." )

Another great moment: Whitehouse's civics lesson about the democratic importance of juries, as they are meant to participate in governance, the important accompaniment to consent to governance. Ending civil jury trials is next to ceding corporate control of the judiciary.

Finally, Judge Jackson's confirmation process should remind us of the Roe moment these so-called democratic leaders have forced upon us.

Women and their allies (not least, arguably, is the entire Democratic caucus) need to realize that Sheldon Whitehouse talks about the radical right's conspiracy to return the half the this nation -- if not the planet -- to the unequal status of sex and reproductive servitude.

(imo, it's as if, so far, the First, Seventh, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments don't exist.)

And Whitehouse has made these facts of political history part of the U.S. Congressional Record.

Long may he run.

[BComplex]

3. I couldn't have said it better! Sheldon Whitehouse is, far and away, the senator

MOST involved these days in saving our democracy, by naming the assassins that have the garrote at the throat of our physical and intellectual freedoms.

[Wild blueberry]

4. Thank you, Senator Whitehouse!

Thanks for posting.