Trump's judicial nominees

-by Marge Baker,Executive Vice President,People for the American WayEven after two months into a national health and economic crisis, Donald Trump and his Republican cronies in the Senate have continued their assault on our federal courts. And while Americans from every walk of life are dealing with the devastating health and economic impact of this pandemic, Senate Republicans are quietly processing more of Trump’s judicial nominees.People For the American Way has led the charge against Trump’s dangerous judicial nominees since he took office.

Any-- every-- sack of dog poop Trump sends over to Moscow Mitch as a judicial nominee has been rammed through the Senate and confirmed, sometimes with votes from the 2 or 3 Trump-friendly Democrats, Joe Manchin (WV), Doug Jones (AL) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ). When even these three vote NO, you know the sack of dog poop Moscow Mitch is hawking includes a lot of dog diarrhea.

Yesterday we looked at an essay by Dave Denison on Biden-- Status Quo Joe-- which notes that "It would be hard to find a more out-of-step-with-the-times candidate than Joe Biden. In a moment when two of the most important movements at the heart of the Democratic coalition-- the Black Lives Matter protests and the #MeToo upsurge-- suggest the need for someone with a strong record on racial justice and respect for women, up stands Joe Biden...

Brain Fallon's in his mid-30s and he's been the picture of an up-and-comg establishment Democrat for a decade. Even before he graduated from Harvard, he had worked as a press aide in the doomed 2004 Kerry-Edwards campaign. Two years later he was the press secretary for Bob Menendez's Senate race and then went to work as the spokesman for Chuck Schumer and his Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Center.

Brett Kavanaugh by Nancy OhanianI suspect there are a lot of voters, particularly Democratic voters, who shrug when someone talks about confirming a judge nominated by a president. Sure, a judge nominated by a Republican president isn't going to be as good as a judge nominated by a Democratic president, but the Republicans won and they get to pick the judges. Right? How bad could it be?

Yesterday, CNN reported something that most of us already knew-- that Trump picked Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court because Kavanaugh has asserted that presidents are basically above the law.

Are we better off that that that effing hypocritical idiot Kirsten Gillibrand got her scalp by pushing Al Franken out of the Senate?

Did you watch Meet The Press Sunday? The highlight was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but Chuck Todd had another interesting guest as well, Maria Canwell, a standard issue Democrat from Washington (state and DC). Cantell had a warning for senators in regard to Trump's not-as-yet named replacement for Anthony Kennedy. "My colleagues," she said, "on both sides of the aisle know that this vote could be one of the key votes of their entire career.

-by Dorothy ReikIn 411 BC the comic playwright Aristophanes' heroine Lysistrata led her followers on a sex strike to force an end to the Pelopponesian wars. It was a comedy then but in 2003, Leymah Gbowee led the women of Liberia in a sex strike to end their civil war. It worked and she won the Nobel Prize. Centuries ago, in 1600, Iroquois women stuck to stop tribal wars. They got what they were striking for.

In 2016 Trump did well in states with quite a few Democratic senators coming up for reelection in November. Anthony Kennedy didn't just fuck America; he really fucked these senators in red and swing states Trump won: