Judge Not

Let Loose The Dogs Of Hypocrisy

February 26, 2022

At so it begins. Joe Biden has the nerve to follow through on a campaign promise. He has nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first African American woman on the Supreme Court. Well, that only took 232 years. If nothing else, he owed it to Anita Hill.

Ketanji Brown Jackson

The next contestant on America’s Got Assholes

Despite having a bullet-proof (it’s just an expression) majority of mostly youngish radical-religious, right-wing, painfully-white justices – two in stolen seats, Senate Ratpublicans will undoubtedly display all the discretion, professionalism and gravitas of a clown car during the confirmation process. The only question for these yahoos is which will they bring on harder – the misogyny or the racism. While many on this side of the aisle and the flip-side of reality can barely walk and chew gum at the same time, I have a feeling they will manage to multi-task on this one. Only slime will tell.

A bunch of wealthy, white, male landowners – just like the Founders intended, sitting in judgment of a black woman. And certainly not the first time such a woman was tougher and smarter than all of them put together. Think Michelle Obama, Anita Hill, Maya Angelou, Shirley Chisholm, Angela Davis, Harriet Tubman, and thousands of slave women who had plenty of brains, but not enough bullets to prevail.

You might remember Judge Jackson; she ordered former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before the House of Representatives. In her decision the judge explained the nature of the American presidency by quoting Founding Fathers James Madison and Alexander Hamilton and French diplomat Alexis de Tocqueville. Perhaps the most well-known phrase to come out of that decision was “Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings, and plaintiff is not president.”

Loopy Lindsey, Kooky Kennedy, Jerky Johnson, Hang ‘Em Hawley and Mopey Mitch

on their way to Senate hearings on accosting Ketanji Brown Jackson

The mammals on the Court will remain greatly outnumbered, but at least there will be more diversity while we wait for the current majority to shrink. Time’s a wastin’.

I. Mangrey, court reporting.