Could a legal case be made that Biden violated civil rights laws by using race a factor in nominating judges, and therefore, these picks are null and void? Why not?
I think we are talking about two different actions. The Senate approved each nominee on a case by case basis. But if the statistics cited in the article are correct, the actual nominations were based solely on race, well outside of statistical norms, and thus discriminatory. I’m no lawyer, so I’m sure I’m wrong, but why not try?
It doesn't matter. The President has a Constitutional right to nominate whomever he wants for whatever reasons. It is not subject to inferior laws that deal with race discrimination in hiring. The only check is that Senate must approve. Bad decisions are reversed (or not) by superior courts such as the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. If they commit a crime or abuse their position, they can be impeached by the House and removed by the Senate. But as I said, this is extremely rare. Finally, if this were possible, don't you think the Ds would have tried it against an R president for nominating too many white judges?
I am only saying that is what they would argue if they thought it would work. It won't for the reasons I said, so they won't try it and it won't work to argue that Biden nominated too many minorities either. It is as I said, a Constitutional right to nominate whomever they want and the only check is the Senate.
It’s just a sad state of affairs that some are placed in important positions solely based on physical characteristics rather than character & qualifications.
As they have been. 99 out 100 times a ridiculous decision will come from a Biden or Obama judge. In the other 1 out of 100, it will be a Republican appointed judge in a blue state where the President gave the D Senators a say in who was nominated. That practice should end if it has not already.
This was obvious during any hearings. Senator Kennedy made his name just quoting their opinions. Wacko leftists. Nothing said it more than the nomination of Miss Ketanji, who did not even know what a woman was! What would King Solomon have said?
Many years ago back in the 70’s I got into a discussion with a libtard about food stamps. He said you have to feed them because if you don’t you will have to kill them & it’s cheaper to feed them. I responded that like elk in the refuge near Jackson they will reproduce to the limits of their food supply what will happen when we can’t pay for it. I got the same vacate stare you get when you tell them Florida is still there in response to global warming
Frimpong “strongly encourages” litigants to assign to oral argument lawyers “whose identities and/or backgrounds further the diversity of the legal profession.”
Same way sending more whites to prison further increases the diversity of California's prison population?
Let me get this straight, it’s illegal to use race as a factor to evaluate someone’s immigration status… But ok when appointing a judge to the US Supreme Court. Makes perfect sense if you are a retard.
Legal immigration is just as much a problem. It’s one thing to deal with Third World peasants who don’t threaten our children’s prospects. It’s quite another to watch our elite class get taken over from Brahmins from India.
A nation in possession of a sensible civilization could promptly deal with an absurdity like this. The impossibility of doing what is simple and obvious is the reason we are doomed to wallow in stupidity.
So it's not okay to check the legal status based on someone's race in the back of the Home Depot parking lot working in the 'under-ground' economy but its okay to create a salamander district based on race? If Trump gets to have a new census that does not include non-citizens from the population how many congressional seats will be put back into states that have little or no illegals? My guess is the Sun Belt and coastal states would lose and the Rust Belt and flyover country would win more seats. Maybe a draw for Ds and Rs but a huge shift in power towards the Heartland, where blue jeans and flannels are still in style and (most) judges are honorable.
Thank you Ann for this immigration update. We cater too much to people who illegally cross our border. It is unfair to born-bred US citizens and to non citizens who go through our citizen ship program diligently and legally.
There's a common thread in this ongoing Suicide of the West.
We in the West are, in successive generational waves, leaving Christendom to embrace those, with us here and those awaiting the Judgment, who hate God and His Kingdom. This is the root binary of our present time.
I'm with those who love God to the end of our pilgrimages on this troubled Orb.
I always have the utmost respect for Ann's commentary but she did leave out that Judge Mensah Frimpong graduated from Harvard University with a BA in 1997 and has a JD from Yale Law School in 2001. Not that those degrees prove her colorblindness. In fact they probably show where her liberal mentality comes from. However, it's heartening to know the Judge didn't get her degrees from the Sear Roebuck catalogue, something Ann should've mentioned, in my view.
Could a legal case be made that Biden violated civil rights laws by using race a factor in nominating judges, and therefore, these picks are null and void? Why not?
Unfortunately, no. They were approved by the Senate. Only their own gross misconduct could get them impeached and removed. That is extremely rare.
I think we are talking about two different actions. The Senate approved each nominee on a case by case basis. But if the statistics cited in the article are correct, the actual nominations were based solely on race, well outside of statistical norms, and thus discriminatory. I’m no lawyer, so I’m sure I’m wrong, but why not try?
It doesn't matter. The President has a Constitutional right to nominate whomever he wants for whatever reasons. It is not subject to inferior laws that deal with race discrimination in hiring. The only check is that Senate must approve. Bad decisions are reversed (or not) by superior courts such as the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. If they commit a crime or abuse their position, they can be impeached by the House and removed by the Senate. But as I said, this is extremely rare. Finally, if this were possible, don't you think the Ds would have tried it against an R president for nominating too many white judges?
Too many whites even though they were qualified via merit!?!?
I am only saying that is what they would argue if they thought it would work. It won't for the reasons I said, so they won't try it and it won't work to argue that Biden nominated too many minorities either. It is as I said, a Constitutional right to nominate whomever they want and the only check is the Senate.
It’s just a sad state of affairs that some are placed in important positions solely based on physical characteristics rather than character & qualifications.
As will Obama's judges, "Biden’s judges are going a disaster for this country for decades to come."
As they have been. 99 out 100 times a ridiculous decision will come from a Biden or Obama judge. In the other 1 out of 100, it will be a Republican appointed judge in a blue state where the President gave the D Senators a say in who was nominated. That practice should end if it has not already.
This was obvious during any hearings. Senator Kennedy made his name just quoting their opinions. Wacko leftists. Nothing said it more than the nomination of Miss Ketanji, who did not even know what a woman was! What would King Solomon have said?
Many years ago back in the 70’s I got into a discussion with a libtard about food stamps. He said you have to feed them because if you don’t you will have to kill them & it’s cheaper to feed them. I responded that like elk in the refuge near Jackson they will reproduce to the limits of their food supply what will happen when we can’t pay for it. I got the same vacate stare you get when you tell them Florida is still there in response to global warming
Frimpong “strongly encourages” litigants to assign to oral argument lawyers “whose identities and/or backgrounds further the diversity of the legal profession.”
Same way sending more whites to prison further increases the diversity of California's prison population?
Let me get this straight, it’s illegal to use race as a factor to evaluate someone’s immigration status… But ok when appointing a judge to the US Supreme Court. Makes perfect sense if you are a retard.
She is a second generation LEEEEGULL immigrant.
Don’t you wish you’d listened to Peter Brimelow in 1996, rather than all those “conservatives” who only opposed illegal immigration?
Remember, conservative icon William F Buckley fired Brimelow from National Review.
Legal immigration is just as much a problem. It’s one thing to deal with Third World peasants who don’t threaten our children’s prospects. It’s quite another to watch our elite class get taken over from Brahmins from India.
Bill Buckley fired Ann from National Review too!
I believe that was Jonah Goldberg.
Funny how anyone interesting or anyone with a controversial point of view gets fired from NR-Sobran, Derbyshire, Brimelow, Ann.
Mark Steyn. Steve Sailer.
A nation in possession of a sensible civilization could promptly deal with an absurdity like this. The impossibility of doing what is simple and obvious is the reason we are doomed to wallow in stupidity.
Anne and Heather are national treasures!
I’ve finally accepted this fact:
We don’t have an illegal immigration problem. We have an immigration problem.
To paraphrase Bill Clinton, immigration should be safe, legal, and rare.
So it's not okay to check the legal status based on someone's race in the back of the Home Depot parking lot working in the 'under-ground' economy but its okay to create a salamander district based on race? If Trump gets to have a new census that does not include non-citizens from the population how many congressional seats will be put back into states that have little or no illegals? My guess is the Sun Belt and coastal states would lose and the Rust Belt and flyover country would win more seats. Maybe a draw for Ds and Rs but a huge shift in power towards the Heartland, where blue jeans and flannels are still in style and (most) judges are honorable.
Here is brave Heather’s X account: https://x.com/HMDatMI
She was in Germany recently meeting with AFD cadres; she is trying to save Western civilization!
Thank you Ann for this immigration update. We cater too much to people who illegally cross our border. It is unfair to born-bred US citizens and to non citizens who go through our citizen ship program diligently and legally.
There's a common thread in this ongoing Suicide of the West.
We in the West are, in successive generational waves, leaving Christendom to embrace those, with us here and those awaiting the Judgment, who hate God and His Kingdom. This is the root binary of our present time.
I'm with those who love God to the end of our pilgrimages on this troubled Orb.
I always have the utmost respect for Ann's commentary but she did leave out that Judge Mensah Frimpong graduated from Harvard University with a BA in 1997 and has a JD from Yale Law School in 2001. Not that those degrees prove her colorblindness. In fact they probably show where her liberal mentality comes from. However, it's heartening to know the Judge didn't get her degrees from the Sear Roebuck catalogue, something Ann should've mentioned, in my view.
And I am sure she got in on merit
Perhaps she would have a better understanding of the law had she studied the Sears Roebuck catalogue. It certainly would have been cheaper.