The Democrats brought forward a women from Kavanaugh's hometown to claim she was raped back in high school, at a party she could not identify, at a house that did not exists according to her claims, attended by people who denied ever being at any such party. Oh... and this was something she never told anyone, ever, until long after Kavanaugh ended up as a well known Judge on the short list of a potential USSC nomination.
But... now that the shoe is on the other foot, A Republican is stepping over the line by asking Jackson about her actual rulings... you know because of racism or something.
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Jim Jordan went crazy about this..
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan (R) decided to weigh in on the public discourse as confirmation hearings were getting underway for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.
"Don't forget what Democrats did to Brett Kavanaugh," he wrote.
But most of the reactions to Jordan's tweet referenced his time at Ohio State University, where he served as assistant wrestling coach and was later accused of ignoring molestation claims about the team’s doctor. Jordan has denied those charges, but several athletes have come forward to corroborate the story.
It's not racism, it's sexual discrimination..
Right off the bat
Yeah but Trump...
Something is not right with Roger.
The big problem is that she was a public defender....
Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday pushed back against misleading Republican critiques that she has been soft on sentencing child pornography offenders.
Driving the news: On the second day of her Senate confirmation hearings, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) asked Jackson to address claims, mainly driven by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), that she has been lenient in sentencing child sex offenders. Jackson responded: "Nothing could be further from the truth."
What she's saying: Jackson said that she makes sure, as a judge, to show the victims' perspectives when addressing offenders: "When I am dealing with something like this, it is important to me to make sure that the children's perspectives, the children's voices, are represented in my sentencing."
She tells offenders "about the adults who are former child sex abuse victims [who] tell me that they will never have a normal adult relationship because of this abuse. I tell them about the ones who say, 'I went into prostitution, I fell into drugs because I was trying to suppress the hurt that was done to me as an as an infant.'"
"When I look in the eyes of a defendant who's weeping because I'm giving him a significant sentence, what I say to him is do you know that there is someone who has written to me and she has told me that she has developed agoraphobia — she cannot leave her house — because she thinks that everyone she meets will have seen her, will have seen her pictures on the internet, they're out there forever, at the most vulnerable time of her life and so she's paralyzed."
— Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Something is not right with Roger.
There's a reason why the alky is not allowed the access code to the entry/exit doors...
So well in fact the Saudi's are now accepting the Chinese Yuan as currency for oil"
That post is at least three step above Rogers level of Macro Economic Understanding.
Yes Cruz laid out all of her child porn case sentencing. Her response was to blame Congress. Good grief.
"The big problem is that she was a public defender"
Nope
She is a Radical Socialist.
That is soft in crime. Period.
She check the Right Biden boxes
Black ✔
Female ✔
Roger has 4950. Facebook "Friends".
Roger , how many have you shared a meal ?
As usual the truthers have nothing but hate...
I read several articles but this sums it up...
As Republicans laid the groundwork for their opposition to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination Monday and early Tuesday, they spent about as much time talking about hearings that had come before as they did the hearings that lay ahead.
Repeatedly, GOP senators offered history lessons about nominees they claimed had been abused by Democrats in these confirmation processes. They cited Clarence Thomas, Miguel Estrada and Janice Rogers Brown as evidence that Democrats talk a good game about valuing diversity, but then go hard after conservative Black and Hispanic judges. They cited Robert Bork and Brett M. Kavanaugh as particularly egregious examples of Democrats impugning the character of Republican nominees. A couple even cited the relatively staid affair that was Amy Coney Barrett’s 2020 confirmation. And they all took care to assure Jackson that they would not repeat their colleagues’ behavior.and Brett M. Kavanaugh and Brett M. Kavanaugh
In each case, it’s worth looking at precisely what we’re talking about. Politicians’ summaries, after all, are prone to spin and oversimplification. And in some of these cases, Republicans were among those supporting the scrutiny.
Estrada and Brown featured prominently, in large part because of the parallels to Jackson. Both were President George W. Bush’s nominees to what’s known as the nation’s second-highest court, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — the court to which Jackson was confirmed last year. Both were viewed as potential future Supreme Court picks — just as Jackson was at the time. Democrats pushed back hard on both nominations.
“If this process were conducted in good faith, Miguel Estrada and Janice Rogers Brown might well be on the Supreme Court today,” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said Monday. “But their opponents lied and bullied, rather than accepted principled minority judges.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) referred to a contemporaneous Democratic email during the Estrada process which stated that their side should fight Estrada’s confirmation “because … he is Latino.” While the quote was certainly objectionable, Cruz stripped it of some context; the fuller quote refers to Estrada’s heritage making him more formidable as a potential future Supreme Court nominee.
Democrats’ public pushback on Estrada at the time was focused on something else entirely, of course: his record — or lack thereof. They accused him of being too extreme and noted he had not been a judge or an academic, leaving less of a paper trail. It was also the first time an appeals court judge was successfully filibustered: Democrats halted Estrada’s nomination in a succession of cloture votes, even as four of them voted to move forward. He ultimately withdrew.
On Brown, the argument again was that she was too extreme. And while her nomination was held up for two years, she was ultimately confirmed in 2005 as part of a deal brokered by the so-called “Gang of 14.” At the time, The Post’s Charles Babington wrote of the pushback against Brown:
Opponents focused on Brown's stinging critiques of government programs, including those designed to help low-income Americans. She once called a landmark 1937 court decision allowing federal regulation of workplace conditions “the triumph of our own socialist revolution.” She wrote that “where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates … The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.” In a speech, she said, “If we can invoke no ultimate limits on the power of government, a democracy is inevitably transformed into a kleptocracy — a license to steal, a warrant for oppression.”
Several Democrats noted that in a dissenting opinion in California, Brown wrote, “We cannot simply cloak ourselves in the doctrine of stare decisis,” the Latin term for the principle that courts should follow precedent decisions. “She is the epitome of an activist judge,” [then-Senate minority leader Harry] Reid said, needling conservatives who long have decried “judicial activism.” Brown “is a judge; she is not a legislator,” Reid [(D-Nev.)] said. “She has no right to do the things that she does.”
Brown was considered a potential Supreme Court pick, but was passed over.
The Republicans failed. For now..
To me, most of it was sexist discrimination...
Kputz, a lot of my friends are family members and long time friends. And I have met and shared meals. Some people from grade students...
And rrb I am free to come and go anytime
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
As usual the truthers have nothing but hate...
Don't make us laugh, alky.
There is no hate like the hate exhibited by democrat senators on the judiciary committee when a Republican nominee is up for consideration.
NOT EVEN FUCKING CLOSE.
Roger, is the prime example of
"What they accuse others of doing, they have actually done".
"The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit March 22, 2022 at 3:46 PM
Kputz, a lot of my friends are family members and long time friends. And I have met and shared meals. Some people from grade students"
40 of them, ok. Out of 5,000.
And rrb I am free to come and go anytime
From his room to the common area!
From his room to the common area!
And to Chez Tablecloth du Plastique for his puddin' cup and mashed nannas.
He'll be free to leave there just as soon as the Grim Reaper shows up and takes him by the hand...
And rrb I am free to come and go anytime
Which belies the fact you are always here!
Go outside
" I don't like living here" Roger
"And rrb I am free to come and go anytime"
Why stay?
When ya moving out to your new home, with your new Ukrainian mail order bride?
Cali, one question IF you don't mind.
Do you like where you live?
I love Brookhaven, GA
Although the yellow fog has begun and for the next few weeks pollen will be hell.
Santa Monica California, four blocks from the beach.
This went on the market last week, one street over. Of course you could fit our entire house in their carport
I rarely go to the common room. Because most of them have lost their minds...
Santa Monica California, four blocks from the beach.
Does your shared cubicle have a window where you can actually see it? Because you ain’t been outside in months
Ot.. But he might send tens of thousands troops.
During his trip to Europe this week, President Joe Biden could announce that the United States plans to permanently maintain an increased number of its troops deployed in NATO countries near Ukraine, according to four people familiar with the discussions.
The president, who is attending a NATO summit Thursday, recently reviewed options for permanent increases in the number of U.S. troops in Eastern Europe, and Poland is among the possible locations for the additional forces, the sources said.
“We are looking at additional troop posture adjustments,” an administration official said, adding that no final decisions have been made.
“At the summit,” the official said, “we expect NATO leaders to review the alliance’s current deterrent and defensive force posture, especially in light of the deteriorated security environment caused by Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified further invasion of Ukraine.”
In February, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration sent about 2,000 troops from the U.S. to Europe, with most of them going to Poland. The U.S. also deployed about 3,000 troops within Europe, roughly 1,000 of whom were repositioned from Germany to Romania.
Thank you, Cali.
I love where I live on the high plains of Kansas. WE enjoy all four seasons, sometimes all in March.
No one here but Roger says such pathetic childlike things like :
" I don't like living here" Roger
"And rrb I am free to come and go anytime"
Financially stuck , no actual finacial.chance of moving into a single family home.
Not to be overly harsh, but what bank is going to give a guy that is 72, with a credit score of sub 576 a loan?
Roger admitted he has only 10 years left my, maybe on this Blue Marble.
��Does your shared cubicle have a window where you can actually see it? ��
I’m 2 hours from Appalachia where we went last weekend and 4 hrs from the coast where we went a 3 weeks prior.
And went foraging earlier and found my first morels. Now to clean and fry
Mmm mmm, Finding Morels is just the best.
Soak mine in salt water for a half hour, then freeze most and butter the rest and pan fry with catfish from our pond.
Fact check: GOP mischaracterizes Jackson on critical race theory, crime views
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A look at some of the claims and reality:
BLACKBURN: “You have made clear that you believe judges must consider critical race theory when deciding how to sentence criminal defendants.” — remarks MonYday.
THE FACTS: Not true. Jackson never called for it to be incorporated in federal sentencing.
“Critical race theory” is a broad-based term. It started as a line of thinking in law schools that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions. Many Republicans have since cast it as a culture-war effort to rewrite American history and persuade white people that they are inherently racist. Still, there actually is little to no evidence that critical race theory itself is being taught to K-12 public school students, though some ideas central to it, such as the lingering consequences of slavery, have been.
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Blackburn appeared to be referring to a speech in which Jackson described how she encouraged students to study federal sentencing policy as an academic area implicating many topics.
“Sentencing is just plain interesting on an intellectual level, in part because it melds together myriad types of law — criminal law, of course, but also administrative law, constitutional law, critical race theory, negotiations, and to some extent, even contracts,” Jackson said in her speech. “And if that’s not enough to prove to them that sentencing is a subject ... worth studying, I point out that sentencing policy implicates and intersects with various other intellectual disciplines as well, including philosophy, psychology, history, statistics, economics, and politics.”
In other words, she indicates that “critical race theory” might be one of many potential factors at play in sentencing, not a mandatory consideration.
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 25: Flanked by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson delivers remarks on her nomination by President Biden to serve as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from the Cross Hall of the White House on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 in Washington, DC. Judge Jackson was picked by President Biden to be the first Black woman in United States history to serve on the nation's highest court to succeed Supreme Court Associate Justice is retiring.
BLACKBURN: “At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, you advocated and again I quote, ‘for each and every criminal defendant’ in the D.C. Department of Corrections custody, ‘should be released.’ That would have been 1,500 criminals back on the street if you had had your way.” — remarks Monday.
THE FACTS: Blackburn is quoting Jackson out of context. As a federal court judge, Jackson actually did not release criminal defendants en masse onto the streets.
As a U.S. district court judge, Jackson was writing in an April 2020 case that the health dangers of COVID-19 could “reasonably suggest” that defendants in the D.C. correctional facilities should be released from there. Ultimately, however, the judge ruled against releasing a prisoner who was requesting home detention after review of his individual health history and severity of offenses, concluding he was a danger to society.
At the time, COVID-19 was spiking unabated across the U.S., more than 40 D.C. inmates had tested positive and even prosecutors in the case acknowledged a health threat. The Justice Department in 2020 and 2021 separately decided to release thousands of inmates to home confinement as the pandemic ravaged federal prisons
“The obvious increased risk of harm that the COVID-19 pandemic poses to individuals who have been detained in the District’s correctional facilities reasonably suggests that each and every criminal defendant who is currently in D.C. [Department of Corrections] custody — and who thus cannot take independent measures to control their own hygiene and distance themselves from others — should be released,” Jackson said in her ruling.
Jackson, however, then proceeded to lay out the law and concluded it falls to the courts to rule “case by case” whether to release inmates consistent “with the dictates of the law.”
In the case at hand, Jackson ruled that the young, healthy and violent criminal who wanted out did not merit release.
The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, in reviewing her wider judicial record, said Jackson was “case-specific” when weighing whether criminal defendants should be released based on COVID concerns and “did not rely on it to grant release automatically.”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-03-22/republicans-skew-jacksons-record-on-crime
I haven’t eaten catfish since my grandmother’s death and I would catch them, no way in hell I’m eating farm raised catfish… just like salmon,
But I loved skinning catfish nail them to a tree, grab some pliers and peel
Fact check: GOP mischaracterizes Jackson on critical race theory, crime views
Wake me when Rs accuse her of rape, Alky
Otherwise fuck you
Come on Roger, help us out .
Not to be overly harsh, but what bank is going to give a guy that is 72, with a credit score of sub 576 a loan?
CD
Surely, you talked to a bank about your loan and terms, and rates.
Powell looks to add a full point to the US interest rates this year .
Does that hurt your chances of moving?
That new wife of yours can't live in your current cell.
Come on goat fucker.....why don't you concentrate on servicing your farm animals instead of speculating like a foolish old asshole whose only hobby is being a busy body old women......Why has your tone changed where you were breaking Powells ballz because he wasn't raising rates and now that he is are complaining about it.....come on asshole you are flip flopping like a fish!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!
"Not to be overly harsh, but what bank is going to give a guy that is 72, with a credit score of sub 576 a loan?
CD<<<<<<< see these two letter on my prior post, it means Cue Denny
it means Cue Denny
LOL
Every time I hammer Alky.
His buddy Denny suddenly signs in.
The CD , was easy to predict.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! The hammer you dropped was on your own fucking foot asshole!!!!!!!! God you are stupid!!! And shorty thinks you are funny........BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Sure says a lot about the UGA failure!!! You got the last words assholes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f3LN5VwtWw
Scott, if the Republicans prevail your marriage would not be legal in conservative states..
GOP senator says he'd support Supreme Court overturning decision that legalized interracial marriage
Sen Mike Braun (R-IN) (Photo: Screen capture)
According to The Times of Northwest Indiana, Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told reporters in a conference call that he would support the Supreme Court overturning the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, which struck down state bans on interracial marriage.
"Braun initially limited his claim to the national right to abortion established by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision he hopes the current, more conservative, Supreme Court will overturn in coming months when it rules in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization," reported Dan Carden. "But, when asked by The Times, Braun admitted there are many Supreme Court decisions he believes improperly established federal rights that would be better handled on a state-by-state basis, including Loving v. Virginia that legalized interracial marriage, and Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) establishing a right to privacy concerning contraceptive use."
"We're better off having states manifest their points of view, rather than homogenizing it across the country as Roe v. Wade did," said Braun. He added specifically that he is fine with interracial couples getting married in one state only for another state to refuse to recognize their marriage: "This should be something where the expression of individual states are able to weigh-in on these issues through their own legislation, through their own court systems. Quit trying to put the federal government in charge."
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Every time I hammer Alky.
His buddy Denny suddenly signs in.
The CD , was easy to predict.
He’s the easiest of the three stooges to abuse.
Although the rankings are
1a fatty
1b pedo
1c Alky
It’s a neck and neck race
None of them are bright
Vox has the best story on this topic...
Senate Republicans — who know they probably won’t be able to prevent Ketanji Brown Jackson from being confirmed to the Supreme Court — opened her confirmation hearing by focusing on something else: old grievances.
Several Republicans, including Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), sought to draw a direct contrast between how Jackson is being treated and how Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was treated during his hearing in 2018. Repeatedly, senators noted that Jackson’s questioning would focus on her legal record and not what they called the “personal attacks” Kavanaugh experienced, when he was faced with allegations of sexual assault. In doing so, they downplayed the allegations brought against him and tried to suggest that their treatment of Jackson this week would be an improvement upon how Democrats previously behaved.
“When we say this is not Kavanaugh, what do we mean?” Graham said. “It means Democratic senators are not going to have their windows busted by groups. No Republican senator is going to unleash an attack on your character when the hearing is almost over.”
It’s a way to preempt the possible blame Republicans might get for their questioning of Jackson, said Mike Davis, the head of the Article III Project, a right-leaning advocacy group focused on the federal judiciary.
“It preempts any complaints Democrats might have about GOP criticisms of Judge Jackson’s record because their attacks on Justice Kavanaugh were personal and unproven,” Davis, who has been informally advising Republican staff, told Vox. “It’s also a reminder to the public of how terribly Democrats treated Justice Kavanaugh and his family. The GOP will focus on her professional record, giving their criticisms more credibility.” (There are key differences between the two: for instance, Kavanaugh faced credible allegations of sexual assault, while Jackson does not.)
Republicans also emphasized Democrats’ past opposition to federal judicial nominees Miguel Estrada, who is Latino, and Janice Rogers Brown, who is Black, to suggest that Democrats have been harsher on nominees of color if they are GOP appointees.
And they added racism... Beaners and n••••••s
K'putz I know about fish like that catfish is amazing👍 trout and other... I have fished in the Missouri River... And in Montana your world have had a great experience... Just outside Yellowstone park!
And in Montana your world have had a great experience... Just outside Yellowstone park!
O’Tay
Was this Jellystone park, with Boo Boo
Is Cindy Bear buying your fantasy house in Washington?
LMAO
(CNN) - Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is likely to be confirmed as a justice on the US Supreme Court, but her confirmation hearing demonstrates how conservatives are winning the ideological war over the Constitution.
Jackson has preferred to call her approach to interpreting the Constitution a "methodology" rather than a "philosophy," but the gist of the two terms is similar. Jackson's description of her approach is consistent with how conservatives have sought to define the judicial role for a generation or two.
She has spoken of the "limited" role of the judiciary and her desire to "stay in (her) lane" as a judge rather than as a legislator. Jackson has said further that she begins her analysis of the Constitution and laws always with the "text." She has gone out of her way not to embrace a belief in a "living Constitution," an interpretative method based on the idea that the meaning of the Constitution must be seen in light of changing conditions in society at large.
To people unversed in the history of constitutional debates, these terms may seem uncontroversial, even generic. But they come with a lot of baggage. Conservatives have charged over the years that liberal judges have been "activists" who "legislate from the bench." The proper role of the judge, according to many conservatives, is to defer to the democratically elected branches of government.
Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas made this point when he criticized the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which required all 50 states to allow same-sex marriage. Cornyn pointed out that legislators in some states had voted to allow same-sex marriage, and those in other states had banned such marriages.
According to Cornyn, the whole issue of same-sex marriage should be left to politicians, not judges.
Jackson didn't take the bait to weigh in on that specific issue, but she did express sympathy for the approach Cornyn advocated. That's generally what's meant by a "limited" view of the judicial role and of judges "staying in their lane."
Of course, that doesn't mean that Jackson disagrees with the outcome in the Obergefell case. Indeed, it seems extremely unlikely that she does. But Jackson's statement about the limited role of the judiciary shows how conservatives have won this rhetorical fight.
It's not clear that Jackson's embrace of conservative language is anything more than rhetorical. Based on her record and background, it's likely that she'll vote like the two other liberals on the court, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Nor will Jackson's use of this kind of language in her confirmation hearing get her many Republican votes for confirmation. But language matters, and the way we talk about the Constitution often dictates what the Constitution comes to mean.
Even more extraordinary was Jackson's statement about "originalism." This approach, most famously embraced by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, holds that the Constitution's terms should be interpreted as the words were understood to mean at the time of the ratification -- in the 18th century for the text of the Constitution and the 19th century for the Fourteenth Amendment.
Jackson presented herself as an originalist. She said, in response to a question from Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, she believes as a judge, you "are bound by the text and what it meant to those who drafted it." That's right out of the originalist playbook.
As Jackson said in answering Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar's question, it was impossible to know what the Framers thought about searches of an individual's cell phone or police using GPS to follow a suspect.
To be sure, Jackson said her analysis would start with the principles established by the Framers, but it's inevitable and appropriate that we think in a modern way about the words of the Framers.
Still, that kind of talk, even from a nominee of a Democratic President, is nearly off limits. The Constitution will always be a living document, whether we acknowledge it or not, but conservatives have won a major victory in making it difficult to say so.
TM & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc.
Cali, I lived in Montana for eight years..
I traveling around the state.. Killed several deer..
And traveled down the Yellowstone river from three forks to Billings three times.. In a raft with friends and a lot of beer and weed...
BTW I’m a redneck from GA and have been to Yellowstone damn near double digits now
Damn, funny.
"Is Cindy Bear buying your fantasy house in Washington?
LMAO"
"Jackson presented herself as an originalist."
Great so she will vote as a swing.vote.
Let's see .
Affirmative Action Jackson .
Presidents Must Always Expect the Unexpected
March 22, 2022 at 5:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
John White:
“In an era when norms are often cast aside, one cardinal rule of the presidency remains intact: expect the unexpected.
"That rule is being vindicated once more. On Election Day 2020, few expected Russia to invade Ukraine and begin the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II.
“But the war is here, and President Biden is dealing with an issue most Americans believed had been resolved by the norms established on the European continent since 1945.
"How Biden measures up, and what the political implications for his presidency are, remain unclear.
"But as John F. Kennedy reportedly said during the Cuban Missile Crisis, ‘I guess this is the week that I earn my salary.’
Biden is certainly earning his.”
Biden to Announce New Russia Sanctions
“President Biden intends to announce a new Russia sanctions package during his visit to Europe this week, including measures to crack down on sanctions evasion,” Axios reports.
Oligarch Companies Can’t Pay Their Debts
“Russian companies owned by sanctioned oligarchs say they are having trouble making payments to their foreign creditors, potentially setting them up for default even though they have the funds to pay,”
the Wall Street Journal reports.
"sanctions evasion,”
Like the Biggest seed grain Ag Businesses in the US telling Joe they ain't leavening Russia, you mean those Companies ?
LA Times
Russia's prince of propaganda spins Putin's Ukraine war
Markus Ziener
Tue, March 22, 2022, 6:20 PM·7
Anyone wanting to know the Kremlin’s worldview need only tune in to “News of the Week,” a Sunday night talk show hosted by Dmitry Kiselyov, who warns his millions of viewers of the sobering specter that the U.S. is an imperial power, Ukraine is ruled by fascists, Europe is a decadent mess in swift decline and Russia has too many enemies to count.
“The operation to clear Ukraine of Nazis continues,” Kiselyov, dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and light blue tie, informs his audience on state-run Russia-1. His nation's military strategy is “microsurgical ... and methodical,” the TV host says in a staccato-style burst of sentences he has honed for years as Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief opinion shaper.
“Fever is no helper,” he adds, underscoring the need for a dispassionate and calculated army mission. The statements are followed by video showing the precise attacks on Ukrainian military facilities. No word about the Russian shelling of homes, hospitals, schools, the near-destruction of the cities of Mariupol or Kharkiv and the more than 3 million refugees created by Moscow's invasion of its neighbor. And not even a hint of Russia's battlefield failures.
The 67-year-old Kiselyov is a household name and an aging prince of propaganda. Prone to tirades and myth peddling, he once suggested that Russia could turn the U.S. "into radioactive ash." He was appointed in 2013 by Putin to head Rossiya Segodnya, the powerful media group that controls much of the Kremlin's ultranationalist spin. Kiselyov has no qualms about quoting out of context, masking the political affiliations of his guests and picking aspects of a story that fit his narrative while blowing up facts that don't conform.
On Sunday, “News of the Week,” known in Russian as Vesti Nedeli, intensified its populist rhetoric when it featured a segment on alleged Russophobia that included quotes from Ramon Serrano Suner, a follower of Spain's fascist Gen. Francisco Franco, and Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s infamous minister of propaganda. To add a more recent anti-Russian statement Kiselyov took to Rod Liddle, a highly controversial British journalist. The intent was to create a siege mentality that feeds into the Kremlin’s central theme: The West wants to bring Russia to its knees.
Dmitry Kiselyov, who hosts a Sunday night TV talk show, is Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief opinion shaper.
“With the help of the West, Ukraine staged a coup d’etat,” said Kiselyov on a recent show, giving his version of events in 2014, when the Ukrainian parliament voted to remove then-President Viktor Yanukovich, a Russian ally, from his post.
Showing marches of right-wing groups in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, Kiselyov insinuated that the country's new leadership “idolized” Hitler's SS, the paramilitary organization of the Third Reich. He does not mention that President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish and lost relatives in the Holocaust.
“People like Kiselyov are not journalists,” says Russian journalist Dmitry Kartsev. “They are propagandists.
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The article continues.
The Russian people are being treated the way Fox News treats its viewers.
Oh Rog I’ve also done a five day white water trip on the Snake River putting in at the last damn past Boise and getting out at the confluence with the Columbia River in Lewiston, WA.
Did with a Gold Club stripper in the early 90’s.
LOL
If you ever want to talk smack, “I’m your huckleberry”
Senators Discuss Freezing Russian Gold
10:30 pm
“A bipartisan group of senators is working with the Treasury Department to try to lock down Russia’s roughly $132 billion in gold reserves after its invasion of Ukraine,” Axios reports.
“The collaborative approach is a departure from congressional efforts to shame and blame the Biden administration to shape moves on Russian oil imports, or the SWIFT banking system.
"If successful, it could drive more work across the aisle and along both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, as the president balances diplomatic pressures abroad with political pressures at home.”
________
Yes, united we stand (succeed) against Russia
is much better than divided we fall (fail) against Russia.
The GOP’s attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson are nasty even by Republican standards
Republicans turned the hearing into a blizzard of misleading attacks, many of which seem designed to appeal to QAnon supporters.
One day after Republican senators promised they wouldn’t levy personal attacks against Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, several of them generated a storm of misleading — and often offensive — attacks against her.
On Monday, the first day of Jackson’s confirmation hearing, several Republicans complained about the way that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was treated prior to his confirmation, after Kavanaugh was credibly accused of sexually assaulting a woman while he was in high school.
Multiple Republican senators promised not to levy similarly “personal attacks” against Jackson. “No Republican senator is going to unleash an attack on your character when the hearing is almost over,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) promised Jackson.
It’s not hard to guess what happened next. Tuesday, the first day of the hearing where senators on the Judiciary Committee could actually ask questions of Judge Jackson, included allegations from five Republican senators that Jackson is soft on child pornography offenders.
Before those misleading attacks kicked off in real force, Graham stormed out of the hearing after attacking Jackson for providing legal counsel to Guantanamo Bay detainees — and suggesting that by doing so, Jackson endangered national security. Two other Republican senators attacked the high school that one of Jackson’s daughters attends.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spent much of his question time on Tuesday criticizing Georgetown Day School — Jackson is a member of this school’s board of trustees, and she told Cruz that she was drawn to the school because it was founded to provide a racially integrated education at a time when Washington, DC’s public schools were segregated.
Cruz attacked the school because, he said, it teaches books he finds objectionable by Boston University historian and National Book Award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi. Cruz also accused Jackson of being a proponent of critical race theory, an academic framework for examining how racism is embedded in America’s laws and institutions. He did this even though Jackson said that critical race theory has “never been something I’ve studied or relied on” as a judge.
The Republican Party tweeted a similar attack on Jackson shortly before Cruz brought up critical race theory at the hearing.
The most inflammatory — and, sadly, the most predictable — allegation against Jackson was that she’s spent her career trying to protect sexual predators, and specifically child pornographers. Sen. Josh Hawley previewed this attack on Twitter last week, and at least four other senators, Cruz and Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Marsha Blackburn (R-TX), and Tom Cotton (R-AR), brought versions of it up on Monday or Tuesday. The broad strokes of this allegation are false, and the details of it rely on a mendacious reading of federal sentencing policy.
Cruz is a highly educated jackoff.
https://www.vox.com/2022/3/22/22991834/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson-republican-josh-hawley-ted-cruz-child-pornography
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is headed into a final round of questioning in her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Wednesday after a relatively straightforward two days before the Senate Judiciary Committee that offered few surprises.
When the hearing begins at 9 a.m., the last two of the committee’s 22 senators will conduct their initial 30-minute rounds of questioning before each senator will then have a follow-up 20-minute questioning period.
But as senators prepare for their final opportunity to formally interview Judge Jackson, there appeared to be little ground left to tread in scrutinizing her background after a hearing that stretched across 13 hours on Tuesday.
Having already sat through three previous Senate confirmation hearings, Judge Jackson appeared composed for much of the hearing on Tuesday, answering familiar questions and showing only momentary flashes of frustration with some Republican members over intense scrutiny of her record as a public defender and her handling of child sex abuse cases.
She painted her conception of a judge’s role as a narrow one, repeatedly saying she would “stay in my lane,” and defended her career both as a public defender and as a judge.
Even senators who attacked parts of Judge Jackson’s career often seemed to temper their criticisms with praise for her record and the historic nature of her nomination, which appears set to make her the first Black woman on the court. Many opened by acknowledging her accomplishments before switching to a more confrontational tone.
With many of the questions about Judge Jackson’s thinking, such as her views on past Supreme Court rulings, already asked and answered, committee members could choose to focus on the future on Wednesday, possibly staking out their positions on whether to support her nomination.
Democrats, who must remain unified to ensure Judge Jackson’s confirmation, may well spend Wednesday making their final case to their colleagues. Amid hope that some Republicans who have supported Judge Jackson in the past may do so again, Democrats on the committee may also appeal to some moderate Republicans to lay the groundwork for a bipartisan confirmation.
Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and the Judiciary Committee chairman, has said he hopes to move forward with a confirmation vote before the Senate leaves for recess on April 8.
Scott, even the Republicans praised her for her integrity.
March 23, 2022, 6:32 a.m. ET
44 minutes ago
Here are the latest developments in Ukraine.
The world was poised for a renewed diplomatic push to intensify pressure on Russia as the fourth week of the war in Ukraine draws to a close on Wednesday amid a fierce counteroffensive by Ukrainian forces.
President Biden will land in Brussels on Wednesday evening and he is set to announce new sanctions on Russian lawmakers before meeting with NATO allies and the European Union. He will then travel to Poland later in the week as he seeks a stronger international response to Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, in a ritual overnight address updating Ukrainians, said on Wednesday that peace negotiations with Russia were moving forward “step by step,” even as his nation’s military stepped up the pressure on Russian forces and their supply lines. But Russia has warned that the same peace talks were not progressing.
In recent days, Ukrainian forces have retaken ground in the northwestern suburbs of Kyiv and around the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv, according to military analysts.
On Tuesday night, Russia’s top spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told Christiane Amanpour on CNN that he refused to rule out the possibility of using nuclear weapons, a move that highlighted what is at stake in the war. He added that they could be used only in the event of an “existential threat” to Russia. The United States called those comments “reckless.”
In other diplomatic efforts, the United Nations General Assembly will consider a humanitarian resolution sponsored by Ukraine and several other member states.
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, urged Russia to make concerted efforts toward peace. “This war is unwinnable,” he told journalists outside the Security Council in New York. “The only question is: How many more lives must be lost?” he added.
Trump voters are dumb
The United States is experiencing an existential democracy crisis, with leading Republicans and millions of their voters and supporters either tacitly or explicitly embracing authoritarianism or fascism. Democrats, for the most part, have not responded with the urgency required to save America's democracy from the rising neofascist tide.
American society was founded on white settler colonialism, genocide and slavery. This unresolved "birth defect" at the foundation of the American democratic experiment meant that the country was racially exclusionary by design, from the founding well into the 20th century. At present, American politics is contoured by asymmetrical political polarization, in which Republicans have moved so far to the right that the party's most "moderate" members are far more extreme than the most "conservative" Democrats. This makes substantive compromise and bipartisanship in the interests of the common good and the American people almost impossible.
Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, Trump supporters and Trump-loathers, increasingly do not live in the same neighborhoods or communities. In all, they largely do not socialize with each other, or have other forms of meaningful interpersonal relationships in day-to-day life.
To the degree that "race" is a proxy for political values and beliefs, the color line functions as a practical dividing line of partisan identity and voting. Religion is also a societal space that is divided by politics. For example, public opinion research shows that white right-wing evangelical Christians have increasingly embraced authoritarian views, conspiracy theories and other anti-democratic and antisocial values.
As the new Faith in America survey by Deseret News & Marist College highlights, the basic understanding of the role of religion in a secular democracy has become so polarized that 70% of Republicans believe that religion should influence a person's political values, where as only 28% of Democrats and 45% of independents share that view.
Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, also do not consume the same sources of information about news and politics. Conservatives now inhabit their own self-created media echo chamber, which functions as a type of lie-filled and toxic closed episteme and sealed-off universe. The creation of such an alternate reality is an important attribute of fascism, in which truth itself must be destroyed and replaced with fantasies and fictions in support of the leader and his movement.
America's struggle for democracy and freedom against authoritarianism is taking place on a biological level as well. Social psychologists and other researchers have shown that the brain structures of conservative-authoritarians are different than those of more liberal and progressive thinkers. The former are more fear-centered, emphasizing threats and dangers (negativity bias), intolerant of ambiguity and inclined to simple, binary solutions. Conservative-authoritarians are also strongly attracted to moral hierarchy and social dominance behavior.
Recent research by Darren Sherkat, a professor of sociology at Southern Illinois University, demonstrates that America's democracy crisis may be even more intractable than the above evidence suggests. In his recent article "Cognitive Sophistication, Religion, and the Trump Vote," which appeared in the January 2021 edition of Social Science Quarterly, Sherkat examined data from the 2018 General Social Survey and concluded that there are substantial negative differences between the thinking processes and cognition of white Trump voters, as shown in the 2016 presidential election, as compared to other voters who supported Hillary Clinton or another candidate, or who did not vote at all.
https://www.rawstory.com/are-trump-voters-dumb/
MTG powerfully sets the record straight with a FAKE NEWS reporter:
VIDEO:
https://gettr.com/post/p10mwlgf284
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
@RepMTG
The Democrats and their spokesmen in the Fake News media continue to defame me as Pro-Putin and Pro-Russia.
But unlike most members of Congress, I’m only loyal to a single country: The United States of America
FAKE NEWS punks, worshipped by the left
and spread by charlatans
Out of the last 9 posts only James fucking Daddy had value
Powell is too late and too timid in his rate hikes.
He balked at a half point this last time.
Like I said and am right, we needed these 50 basis point hikes last March.
@ the time The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT said they were unneeded as "Transitory INFLATION " would soon fall.
K.U. degree in Economics over emotional twerps.
Putin Adviser Quits Over Ukraine War
9:05 am
“Russian climate envoy Anatoly Chubais has stepped down and left the country, citing his opposition to President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, becoming the highest-level official to break with the Kremlin over the invasion,” Bloomberg reports.
Zelensky Says 100,000 Trapped in Mariupol
March 23, 2022 at 8:39 am EDT
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a televised address that about 100,000 people are enduring “inhumane conditions” in the southeastern port city of Mariupol as they contend with a relentless attack by Russian forces, Axios reports.
Zelensky said Mariupol’s citizens were completely blockaded by Russia’s military: “No food, no water, no medicine. Under constant shelling, under constant bombing.”
Strong Support for Ketanji Brown Jackson
8:12 am EDT
Gallup:
“Initial public support for judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court ties as the highest Gallup has measured for any recent nominee.
“Fifty-eight percent of Americans say the Senate should vote in favor of Jackson serving on the Supreme Court. Only current Chief Justice John Roberts, at 59% in 2005, had a level of support on par with that for Jackson.”
Zelensky to Join NATO Summit
7:43 am
President Volodymyr Zelensky will give a virtual address to the NATO summit participants tomorrow,
the Kyiv Independent reports.
He is expected to “speak about the need to stop Russia’s war crimes by closing the sky above Ukraine or supplying the country with air defenses.”
Anticipating Putin’s Next Move
7:20 am
New York Times:
“The most critical of the meetings, though, will be at NATO. For all the signs of unity, there is nervousness about Mr. Putin’s next move, and what happens if he makes use of chemical or biological weapons. And so far, officials say, while those possibilities have been debated, there is no unity on how the West would respond — a question Mr. Biden and his aides will have to take up, behind closed doors.”
Biden to Announce Sanctions on Russian Lawmakers
7:17 am
“The Biden administration is preparing sanctions on most members of Russia’s State Duma, the lower house of parliament, as part of an effort to punish Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine,”
the Wall Street Journal reports.
“President Biden intends to announce the sanctions on more than 300 members of the Russian State Duma as soon as Thursday during his trip to Europe, where he will meet with allies from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to formulate their next steps.
“The sanctions will be announced in coordination with the European Union and members of the Group of Seven industrialized nations.”
What Biden Expects from His Trip to Europre
7:15 am
Politico:
“Presidents rarely travel overseas empty-handed but, to this point, the administration has been cagey as to what more deliverables Biden can or will provide. Officials said additional sanctions against Russia were expected along with a joint effort to crack down on Russia’s ability to evade those economic measures. There also is a promise of more funding and military equipment for Kyiv. But there are limits as to what Biden can do and how far he’s willing to go.
Playbook:
“Most summits are organized over the course of months. Thursday’s meetings took shape in just days. Some allies balked at the idea of a gathering in Brussels, worried that there wouldn’t be much new to say. In the end, Biden personally prevailed over the doubters.”
ABC News:
Biden heads to high stakes NATO summit.
GOP Senators Play to Base and Fringe
7:34 am
“After all of the entreaties from top Republicans to show respect at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, Senator Ted Cruz on Tuesday afternoon chose to grill the first Black woman nominated for the Supreme Court on her views on critical race theory and insinuate that she was soft on child sexual abuse,”
the New York Times reports.
“The message from the Texas Republican seemed clear: A Black woman vying for a lifetime appointment on the highest court in the land would, Mr. Cruz suggested, coddle criminals, go easy on pedophiles and subject white people to the view that they were, by nature, oppressors.
“The attack, the most dramatic of several launched from inside and outside the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing room, contained barely coded appeals to racism and clear nods to the fringes of the conservative world.”
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The GOP appeals too much to racists and racism.
Ted Cruz completely embarrassed kbj, catching her in lies twice. First when she said she doesn't discuss CRT and he produced a rwcebt speech in which she did. Second when shr said CRT was a college academic theory and not taught in schools and he produced evidence that the very school for which she sits on a board is teaching it.
And was anyone in the hearing more absurd than Cory booker? He did everything but ask her on a date.
Joe biden and Senate democrats filibustered Janice Rogers brown twice and Miguel Estrada once specifically because of their race. Democrats are the real racists.
In the first few minutes Tucker does a great job of exposing the "black nominee" as just a professional class white liberal with dark skin. No diversity of thought, just a second black which is how she was chosen.
VIDEO:
https://tv.gab.com/channel/gee/view/tucker-carlson-the-white-house-congress-623acd27080dedca1f79a28c
Funny how Joe Biden used the "racist" filibuster to block a high qualified female black nominee years ago.
Now we get one who can't define who a "woman" is and gives lenient sentences to pedophiles because laws were written when it was harder to accumulate masses of child pornography due to the internet. Guess if it gets easier to kill people we will need to reduce those sentences too
What a "bright" "legal" mind
* (has a great Cory Booker clip too)
New Vehicle prices up 17% from last year.
New Vehicle availability down 28%.
Biden Build less is working
The four lunatics the hearing to impress Republican's who are running for President, if Trump doesn't run.
Hawley (R-Mo.) had a long, tense exchange with Jackson on Tuesday about her sentencing of child pornography offenders below federal guidelines. Cruz (R-Texas) questioned whether Jackson, who serves on the board of the private Georgetown Day School, agreed with a book “being taught to kids that babies are racist.”
Cotton (R-Ark.) questioned a reluctant Jackson on whether deterrence is an effective crime-fighting tool and whether convicted rapists and murderers should spend more time in jail. And at the end of a sedate opening day on Monday, Blackburn (R-Tenn.) charged that Jackson has endorsed “progressive indoctrination of our children” in her previous statements.
Senate Democrats while in the minority seized plenty of their own big moments when former President Donald Trump confirmed three Supreme Court justices. Three Judiciary Committee Democrats ran for president in 2020, including Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Cory Booker of New Jersey and then-Sen. Kamala Harris of California, who is now the vice president.
But for Democrats, the courts are “just another issue,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). For Republicans considering a White House run and their allies, he added, it’s something else altogether.
“The audience is not so much in the room, and not even the nominee. But [instead] TV sound bites and right-wing network echoes and approval of the Republican dark money apparatus,” Whitehouse said.
Cruz has been most forthright about pursuing the presidency if Trump doesn’t run, while Hawley insists he’s not running. Both Cotton and Blackburn have visited the early presidential primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire. They also have plainly different styles: Cruz and Hawley have loquacious styles in the halls of the Senate; Cotton usually declines comment and Blackburn says she doesn’t do “walk and talk.”
Hawley made waves in the run-up to Jackson’s hearing by criticizing her record of sentencing child pornography offenders. His early splash left some Republicans annoyed that Hawley had taken Judiciary Committee Republican research cobbled together ahead of the hearing and ran with it on his own schedule.
Behind the scenes was something of a strategic disagreement: Some in the GOP wanted to spring the questions on her spontaneously, while Hawley found it more effective to press Jackson and the White House ahead of time.
“We had a lot of research about a lot of things and that was part of it, her sentencing practices as a district judge. And I think [Hawley] was the first to hone in on it,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).
With a hint of what was to come from Hawley, at the beginning of the hearing Tuesday, Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) asked Jackson gently about what she thought of the conservative’s criticisms that she was soft in child pornography cases. She responded to them this way: “As a mother and a judge who has had to deal with these cases, I was thinking that nothing could be further from the truth.”
She destroyed them.
Top Putin Aide Won’t Rule Out Nuclear Weapons
“Russian President Vladimir Putin’s chief spokesman has conceded that Russia has yet to achieve any of its military goals in Ukraine and refused to deny that Moscow could resort to the use of nuclear weapons,” CNN reports.
“Dmitry Peskov repeatedly refused to rule out that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons against what Moscow saw as an ‘existential threat.'”
She is amazing and highly intelligent and educated at a higher level in history.
She will follow the Constitution.
Supreme Court nominee Jackson doesn't 'quite remember the basis' for Dred Scott decision
The Dred Scott case is among the most notorious in the Supreme Court's history
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-nominee-jackson-dred-scott-decision-basis
What a "top legal mind"
This is insulting to all legal minds
regardless of race
Food prices According to the USDA are going up 7-10 % .
Doesn't that sound like fun.
The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
She is amazing and highly intelligent and educated at a higher level in history.
She will follow the Constitution.
She doesn't even follow sentencing guidelines
nor know what a woman is
Putin Plans to Attend G-20 Summit
9:35 am
“Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to attend the Group of 20 summit that is being hosted by Indonesia this year,”
the Washington Post reports.
“Western nations are reportedly trying to exclude Moscow from the G-20, a group of the world’s largest economies.”
Russian Stock Market to Partially Reopen
9:33 am
“Russia’s stock market is set to have a partial reopening Thursday, nearly a month after it shut down following the invasion of Ukraine,”
the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The challenge for Moscow is that the resumption of trading could simply send Russian stocks back into free fall.
“To limit the fallout, Moscow has turned to some heavy-handed policies. It blocked foreign investors from dumping local stocks—a move that some market participants saw as retaliation for a Western freeze on Russian central bank assets since a big chunk of the Russian market is owned by foreigners. The Russian government ordered its sovereign-wealth fund to buy billions of dollars worth of shares.”
She doesn't even follow sentencing guidelines
Total BS. A total lie.
Cruz proved that she doesn't follow guidelines.
“As a mother and a judge who has had to deal with these cases, I was thinking that nothing could be further from the truth.”
She destroyed them.
Indeed.
Dishonest, indecent, untruthful Rev. said...
She doesn't even follow sentencing guidelines
Total BS. A total lie.
RNC Research
WATCH: Senator @tedcruz goes through six child pornography cases where Ketanji Brown Jackson imposed a sentence far below federal guidelines AND what prosecutors were requesting.
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1506350159927599117
so the dishonest POS and charlatan "pastor" boswell is the one doing the lying
again
She will follow the Constitution."
Cool, she can't define what "a woman" is.
She will be confirmed. It was never in doubt.
President Biden said he is leading the world into a " new World Order ".
Good to see he is out of the closet.
NPR Politics
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley continued his misleading assertion that Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson had previously been lenient on child porn offenders during his questioning time. https://n.pr/36pzbRY
Abigail Marone 🇺🇸
https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1506418327543025665
She gave a child porn offender 3 months in prison after federal guidelines suggested 10 years and federal prosecutors asked for 2 years.
What's misleading?
the "pastor" must be relying on FAKE NEWS like NPR for his lies
again
James and Roger seem desperate on their attempts to prop up an inferior candidate.
She also was lenient on an 18 year old sex offender because he was so close in age to his victim
He was 18
she was 8
From the Tucker link above
I can see why the "pastor" supports her
and it's not really her skin color
* guess she's not good at math either.
After all she's no mathematician
Dammit Jim, I'm a liberal judge, not a mathematician
Speaking of following guidelines:
LIVE UPDATES: JACKSON’S CONFIRMATION HEARINGS
Durbin, defending Jackson, says Congress has failed to do its job on sentencing guidelines
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“I hope we all agree that we want to do everything in our power, reasonably within our power, to lessen the incidence of pornography and exploitation of children,” Durbin said.
Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin on Tuesday said Congress has failed to do its job on sentencing guidelines, after Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced a 30-minute grilling from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on a sentence she issued in a specific child pornography case.
“I hope we all agree that we want to do everything in our power, reasonably within our power, to lessen the incidence of pornography and exploitation of children. You have made that clear, that is your position, too,” Durbin (D-Ill.) said. “But I just want to tell you, Congress doesn’t have clean hands to this conversation. We haven’t touched this now for 15, 16 or 17 years. And you aren’t the only one who faced this kind of challenge with the cases before you.”
Durbin then referred to a case he mentioned earlier Tuesday involving federal Judge Sarah Pitlick of Missouri, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump and whom Hawley backed. The Senate Judiciary chair noted that the judge’s sentence in the case was well below what was recommended by the guidelines.
Hawley attempted to chime in, but Durbin asked to finish his statement. He then turned to the focus of Hawley’s line of questioning, the United States v. Hawkins case, in which Jackson sentenced the defendant to three months, a ruling below the prosecutor’s recommendation of two years.
“[Pitlick] faced a situation where she decided she would not follow the guidelines and took a sentence of less than half of what they recommended,” Durbin said of Pitlick. “We have created a situation because of our inattention and unwillingness to tackle an extremely controversial area in Congress and left it to the judges. And I think we have to accept some responsibility for that, senator.”
The Missouri Republican defended Pitlick for following the prosecutor’s recommendation in that case, adding that his concern with Jackson was that she didn’t follow the prosecutor’s recommendation or the sentencing guidelines in the Hawkins case.
“And I’m happy we have a policy debate about whether or not the guidelines are too lenient. I would argue in this era of exploding child pornography, they’re not too lenient at all. I think you were right the first time when you voted in 2003 to make it tougher,” Hawley said back to Durbin.
The Senate Judiciary then told Hawley he would be looking for a bill from him to change this, noting that there wasn’t a “long line of people waiting to co-sponsor this controversial issue.”
“If we’re going to tackle it, we should,” Durbin said. “But we should concede in the meantime that we’ve left judges in the lurch in many of these situations.”
World Braces for Putin’s Cyberwar
BUT WHERE IS IT?
10:30 am
Politico:
“The escalating warnings of a Russian cyberattack on the U.S. cut against one of the war’s most perplexing mysteries: Why has the Kremlin held back from unleashing its full hacking might against Ukraine?
“Before Vladimir Putin launched his invasion a month ago, security experts warned that the coming conflict could redefine cyber warfare — both for Ukraine and for the United States. But so far, cyberattacks have been of limited importance in a war that Russia has waged using tanks, rockets, missiles and bombardments of civilians.”
This matters more.
LVIV/MYKOLAIV/KHARKIV, Ukraine, March 23 (Reuters) - A veteran aide of President Vladimir Putin has resigned over the Ukraine war and left Russia with no intention to return, two sources said on Wednesday, the first senior official to break with the Kremlin since Putin launched his invasion a month ago.
The Kremlin confirmed that the aide, Anatoly Chubais, had resigned of his own accord. Chubais hung up the phone when contacted by Reuters. The sources did not say where he was.
Chubais was one of the principal architects of Boris Yeltsin's economic reforms of the 1990s and was Putin's boss in the future president's first Kremlin job. He later ran big state businesses under Putin and held political jobs, lately serving as Kremlin special envoy to international organisations.
U.S. President Joe Biden flies to Europe on Wednesday for an emergency NATO summit on Ukraine, where invading Russian troops are stalled, cities are under bombardment and the besieged port of Mariupol is in flames.
Four weeks into a war that has driven a quarter of Ukraine's 44 million people from their homes, Russia has failed to capture a single major Ukrainian city or depose the government, while Western sanctions have ostracised it from the world economy.
Russian forces have taken heavy losses, been frozen in place for at least a week on most fronts and face supply problems and fierce resistance.
They have turned to siege tactics and bombardment, causing massive destruction and many civilian deaths.
Moscow says its aim is to disarm its neighbour, and its "special military operation" is going to plan. It denies targeting civilians.
Worst hit has been Mariupol, a southern port completely surrounded by Russian forces, where hundreds of thousands of people have been sheltering since the war's early days, under constant bombardment and with food, water and heat supplies cut.
New satellite photographs from commercial firm Maxar released overnight showed massive destruction of what was once a city of 400,000 people, with columns of smoke rising from residential apartment buildings in flames.
No journalists have been able to report from inside the Ukrainian-held parts of the city for more than a week, during which time Ukrainian officials say Russia has bombed a theatre and an art school used as bomb shelters, burying hundreds of people alive. Russia denies targeting those buildings.
Biden, due to arrive in Brussels on Wednesday evening on his first foreign trip since the war began, will meet NATO and European leaders in an emergency summit at the Western military alliance's headquarters.
The leaders are expected to roll out additional sanctions against Russia on Thursday. Sources said the U.S. package would include measures targeting Russian members of parliament.
Biden will also visit Poland, which has taken in most of the more than 3.6 million refugees who have fled Ukraine and has been the main route for Western supplies of weapons to Ukraine.
In a sign of Moscow's further isolation, Poland announced it was expelling 45 Russian diplomats accused of either being undercover spies or "associated" with them. Several other eastern European countries have announced similar moves in recent days, although not on such a large scale. Russia has rejected all the accusations.
This matters more than anything else right now
On the second day of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Republicans made clear with their ineffective questions that they have no salient arguments to justify keeping her off the court.
Jackson is about as unimpeachable a candidate as one could hope for. As a Washington Post graphic laid out so clearly, if confirmed, she’d have more expansive experience working across the judicial field than anyone else sitting on the Supreme Court. She’s been confirmed by the Senate three times previously. She’s been endorsed by organizations as varied as the Fraternal Order of Police and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. In many ways, she embodies the instruction many Black parents give their kids to be twice as good as their competition if they hope to receive the accolades they deserve.
So it appears that Durbin just admitted that Hawley was not just putting up bullshit after all.
On the contrary. The questioning by Kennedy, Cruz, Graham and others was highly effective.
I retract my statement at 9:31 AM.
What I said there was too extreme.
I refer you instead to the citations at 9:56 AM
and I affirm Roger's 10:12 AM.
So now we have the NCAA and a supreme court nominee who don't know what a woman is. This is progressive progress leading to a new world order I guess.
Myballs said...
So now we have the NCAA and a supreme court nominee who don't know what a woman is. This is progressive progress leading to a new world order I guess.
and wasn't knowledgeable about the Dred Scot ruling
what a "great? legal mind
well comared to Joe that may be true
but that is not the standard we should be applying
pedophiles are cheering though
and apparently she thinks judges make laws
not rule against existing law
Banana Republic
Joe Biden's America
Animal Farm
1984
Confirmation Hearings
Graham takes a caustic tone in questioning Jackson.
Jonathan Weisman
March 23, 2022, 2:09 p.m.
for The New York Times
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson got into the most heated exchange of Wednesday morning after the senator revived a line of attack on the judge’s sentencing record in cases involving images of child sexual abuse.
For Mr. Graham, the exchange was reminiscent of his angry diatribe during the caustic confirmation hearings of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
The flashes of temper were particularly striking coming from a senator who voted less than a year ago to confirm Judge Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Mr. Graham’s aggressive questioning of Judge Jackson over the past two days — which has included rapid-fire rhetorical questions, frequent interruptions and some lengthy, fiery lectures — suggested that he was unlikely to back her for the nation’s highest court.
On Tuesday, Mr. Graham made it clear he was still angry that President Biden had chosen to nominate Judge Jackson over his preferred candidate, Judge J. Michelle Childs, who is from his home state. On Wednesday, he seemed to hold Judge Jackson personally responsible for the treatment that Democrats meted out to Justice Kavanaugh: “He was ambushed,” Mr. Graham thundered. “How would you feel if we did that to you?”
But the real heat of the exchange came when the senator revisited accusations that Judge Jackson had been particularly lenient in her sentencing in cases involving images of child sexual abuse. At one point, he said of consumers of child sex abuse imagery, “put their ass in jail.”
Judge Jackson tried to explain how such cases had changed since Congress passed a law that enhanced sentences based on the number of images found in possession of a defendant. At the time of the law, such images primarily came through the mail, and the number of images indicated the lengths that a consumer had gone to obtain them.
But, she tried to explain over Mr. Graham’s repeated interruptions, in the internet age, huge stores of images can be acquired with a few clicks of a mouse.
“You can be doing this for 15 minutes, and all of a sudden you are looking at 30, 40, 50 years in prison,” she said, when Mr. Graham interrupted, “Good, absolutely good.”
Judge Jackson, a former member of a federal sentencing commission that examined the issue, continued, “Senator, I am trying to explain that our sentencing system that Congress created, the system the sentencing commission is a steward of, is a rational one. It is designed to help judges do justice in the terrible circumstances by eliminating unwarranted disparities, by ensuring that the most serious defendants get the longest periods of time.”
That teed up Mr. Graham’s biting closing shot: “We are trying to get people to stop this crap,” he snapped, adding, “All I can say is that your view on how to deter child pornography is not my view. I think you are doing it wrong, and every judge who does what you are doing is making it easier for the children to be exploited.”
After the questioning, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and the dean of the Senate, called Mr. Graham’s performance “beyond the pale,” telling reporters, “I’m just distressed to see this kind of a complete breakdown of what’s normally the way the Senate’s handled.”
Reporter: "What did you think of the hearings?"
Senator Leahy:
'It was going well until this last last line of questioning which was an abrogation of everything the Senate should stand for. A Republican member went way the over time allotted, ignoring the rules of the committee, badgering nominee, would not ever let her answer the questions. I ... I've never seen anything like it. I've been here 48 years. Here we have a highly respected and respectable nominee, to be treated that way. No matter what the political might be or what political motivation, to see the badgering of this woman as she was trying to testify -- I thought it was outrageous."
badgering the nominee
Fuck you, pedo badgering is nothing compared to being accused of rape
Senators Behaving Badly
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Charlie Sykes:
“As we contemplate the vetting process that gives us judges who are qualified to sit on the Supreme Court, perhaps we also ought to give some thought to the vetting process we use for the kind of people who serve in the U.S. Senate.
“Because, I regret to inform you that, once again, they are not behaving well.”
Anti-Abortion Lt. Governor Once Paid for Abortion
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North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R), who frequently rails against abortion rights, paid for a woman to have an abortion after impregnating her in 1989, Axios reports.
PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT?
U.S. Military Officials Met with Russian General
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A rare face-to-face meeting between Russian and US military officials last week led to an “outburst” of emotion from a normally stoic Russian general, a “revealing moment” that the Americans present believe hinted at larger morale problems in Russia’s military,
CNN reports.
It’s unclear why the meeting was held or the circumstances behind it.
EXCLUSIVE: Inside a rare US meeting with a Russian general in Moscow
By Barbara Starr and Jeremy Herb,
CNN
Updated 4:21 PM ET, Wed March 23, 2022
Major General Yevgeny Ilyin, deputy head of the Russian defense ministry's main department for international military cooperation, attends the opening ceremony of the 5th Moscow Conference on International Security in April 2016.
(CNN)A rare face-to-face meeting between Russian and US military officials last week led to an "outburst" of emotion from a normally stoic Russian general, a "revealing moment" that the Americans present believe hinted at larger morale problems in Russia's military, according to a closely held US military readout of what transpired.
The readout, which was reviewed by CNN, describes the perspective of the two defense attachés who attended and their own impressions of what they saw and heard. It does not offer a definitive explanation of the Russian general's behavior.
Readouts of sensitive meetings are never made public by the military or intelligence community because they are scrutinized for clues about an adversary's thinking and intentions.
The meeting, held at the Russian ministry of defense in Moscow, is a rare instance of Russian and American defense officials sitting down in person since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. The readout describes the meeting as tense, with visible signs of stress on the Russian side.
It makes particular note of the behavior of Russian Major General Yevgeny Ilyin, deputy chief of the main directorate of international cooperation who has a long track record of dealing with American officials. In a break from typical practice, Ilyin spoke with no notes or set talking points, according to the readout.
As the meeting was breaking up, one US defense attaché "casually inquired" about Ilyin's family roots in Ukraine, and the Russian general's "stoic demeanor suddenly became flushed and agitated," according to the readout. The Americans reported Ilyin responded "yes," and said that he was born in Dnipropetrovsk before moving with his family moving to Donetsk, where he went to school.
But the US officials reported Ilyin then added that the current situation in Ukraine is "tragic and I am very depressed over it" -- and then he walked out without shaking hands, according to the readout.
It's unclear why the meeting was held or the circumstances behind it. CNN does not know if there's additional documentation describing the meeting. The readout does not include the names of the American attachés in the meeting, and CNN has been unable to learn their identities. The Pentagon and State Department declined to comment. CNN has reached out to the Russian Ministry of Defense for comment.
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IMAGE: The bodies of Russian soldiers are piling up in Ukraine, as Kremlin conceals true toll of war
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The US team had the sense, according to the readout, that Ilyin stopped just short of accusing US and Ukraine of atrocities against his family. It's not clear what specifically caused them to reach that conclusion, but one of the attachés said, "The fire in his eyes and flustered demeanor left a chill down the spine."
The readout said one of the attaché's jaw dropped, and both Americans reported they had never "witnessed such an outburst by Russian counterparts at an official meeting."
US meetings with Russian officials are typically scripted affairs. While it's not clear from the summary what precisely led to Ilyin's reaction, the two US defense attachés who attended the meeting assessed the general's reaction as a possible sign of morale problems.
"At the very least, it is clear that morale problems among Russian forces are not limited to front-line troops," the readout concludes.
The readout provides a peek behind the scenes of a Russian military that has failed in its apparent goal of quickly taking Kyiv after launching the invasion last month. Senior US military officials have said publicly and privately that the morale of Russian military forces is suffering as they enter the fourth week of their invasion of Ukraine -- an invasion that US officials think Russian President Vladimir Putin believed would go much more quickly and smoothly than it has.
In an interview Tuesday with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov disputed US assessments that Russian troops had morale problems. "You would probably have to doubt this information," Peskov said. "You have to doubt it, and you have to think twice whether it is true or not."
The Kremlin has continued since well before the invasion to refuse direct high-level contact between senior US generals and Russian counterparts making this meeting one of increased interest. The US has a deconfliction phone line of communication with the Russian military that has been tested daily but has not been used.
The US believes that the refusal for high-level meetings is due to Kremlin worries that the encounters would show them to be vulnerable if they allowed such meetings, because it risks a tacit admission that an abnormal situation exists, according to the readout.
Even before the remarkable end to the meeting, the US officials reported that Ilyin's stoicism began to wilt in the meeting when the Americans called the Ukraine situation a crisis, and the Russian general quickly "corrected and countermanded" them.
The Russian general did not deviate in the discussions from the win-at-all-costs Russian strategy of the invasion of Ukraine, according to the readout. In this instance, the two Americans believe they witnessed a Russian general who was "clearly in distress over the situation but who had nowhere to project his anger except in line with Kremlin's state sponsored narrative," according to the readout.
The readout notes the Americans are not discounting the encounter may have underscored the hardening of the Russian position on the war and the Russian military officials' need to fulfill their orders because they have no other choice.
A senior defense official said last week that the US has "picked up anecdotal indications that morale is not high" in some of the Russian forces' military units.
"We certainly have indications that morale is a growing problem inside the Russian forces that are fighting in Ukraine," Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters Tuesday. "As time goes on, and they continue to fail to achieve the progress on the ground that they want to achieve, we've seen increasing indications that morale and unit cohesion is a problem."
CNN's Devan Cole contributed to this report.
The hearings today✓
It’s all ugly theater of the absurd, but that’s exactly the point. This is red meat for the conservative base, which has been increasingly radicalized and fed a steady diet of conspiracy theories and lies that deliberately and inaccurately redefine CRT as a pernicious ideology unleashed by the deep state to teach our children to be anti-white, anti-democratic, Marxist sex criminals.
As Judge Jackson herself said in response to one of Sen. Cruz’s many insulting questions, “[CRT] doesn’t come up in my work as a judge. It’s never something that I studied or relied on and it wouldn’t be something I would rely on if I was on the Supreme Court.”
But her record and statements don’t matter, because Judge Jackson is a Black woman—nominated by a Democratic president. That alone condemns her as a Trojan horse who will allegedly use her considerable talents and powers to attack an increasingly paranoid GOP base that have been told they are being “replaced.”
I just watched Linsey Graham's disgusting spectacle as he tried repeatedly to browbeat a person far more principled and noble than he is, and then I watched Cory Booker's glowing tribute to Jackson, and I felt great pride and hope for America.
She is America's answer to misguided White Nationalism, and it is the intended answer of our founders, for although many of them owned slaves, they admitted that they knew slavery was wrong.
Lindsey
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