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Now that Scalia is taking a dirt nap Obama's constitutional duty is the pick a nominee. I had some thoughts. I was thinking he'd nominate Shotgun Joe Biden, Barney Frank or some lesser known jurist but when I received this Email from Florida Congressman Alan Grayson I knew who I was going to want to see on the US Supreme Court. It's a no brainer. Elizabeth Warren is the obvious choice and here's why.
1. Elizabeth Warren is squeaky clean. (There are no clean conservatives, they simply do not exist. Look at what a disaster that scumbag Clarence Thomas is.)
2. Elizabeth Warren is brilliant! She as the ability to arrive at the obvious very quickly.
3. She's a woman of the people and unlike any CONservative she's not mobbed up with the 1%.
4. Even if the criminal Republican scum block her nomination they will get bloodied up in the process.
Grayson's argument is even more persuasive.
Dear Mr. President,
Please appoint Elizabeth Warren to the Supreme Court, before the end of the week.
Why Elizabeth Warren? She started waiting tables at the age of 13, a year after her father was driven into poverty by a heart attack followed by huge medical bills. She later taught children with disabilities. She was a Harvard Law Professor for almost two decades – in fact, the only one there with tenure who had attended a public university. Her scholarly work is renowned; she is one of the most frequently cited law professors of all time.
She has been an indefatigable watchdog over the capital markets for almost a decade, going back to her extraordinarily valuable work on the Congressional Oversight Panel for the federal bailout program. She created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, even though the Senate Republicans wouldn’t let her run it. She electrified the nation with her “you didn’t build that” speech. And she has been a tireless and effective U.S. Senator.
Fourteen Senators and 17 Congressman have been appointed to the Supreme Court. So it wouldn’t be the first time this happened.
One more thing: Senator Warren is an outstanding writer and communicator, something that the Supreme Court badly needs. (Justice Scalia recently attacked a colleague for a writing style “as pretentious as it [is] egotistic.”) In my opinion, the two best judicial writers of my lifetime are Justice Hugo Black, a former Senator, and Judge Abner Mikva, a former Congressman. (I worked with Mikva; I know what I’m talking about.) Serving in either House of Congress is a very effective lesson in communication.
Would obstructionists in the Senate filibuster an Elizabeth Warren appointment, or vote against her? Maybe. But that seems like poor form against one of their own, for a place as clubby as the U.S. Senate.
And the President should appoint Warren right now, before the end of this week. That would make it a “recess appointment,” and Justice Warren could take office immediately. The obstructionists in the GOP couldn’t do anything about it.
One last reason why Elizabeth Warren should be on the U.S. Supreme Court:
She’s earned it. She deserves it. And she’ll be so, so good at it.
Signs point to some recent appellant court nominee that was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. Probably a woman. And a minority.
Let's hope. In the mean time Scalia's grave is a toxic landfill.
If these same senators unanimously confirmed a justice in the last year or two......they're going to be hard pressed to reject the same justice on any grounds save whorish partisanship. If the justice is a woman and a minority, even more so.
As then it would look shamefully partisan, sexist and racist. Which are just horrible optics for a party trying to woo moderates, women and minorities for the 2016 presidential election. A task made difficult enough by the silly shit their candidates have already said.
If voting against a black nominee isn't racist, then how can voting against an Indian be racist? It's strange that no one can really explain what makes a certain decision "racist."
