If this title is unfamiliar, it was a movie about that dear woman Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who passed away yesterday. In her legal career Ruth Ginsburg was a ground breaking leader for women’s rights and justice for all.
An hour after her death, Mitch McConnell announced he would bring President Trump’s next Supreme Court nominee to a Senate vote. We should all remember that in 2016, when Justice Scalia died, Mitch McConnell refused to bring President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, to a Senate vote, claiming the appointment should not occur until after the election. That was 10 months before the election. We are now 46 days before the election.
McConnell is the ultimate partisan. Almost always party before country. It is also Mitch McConnell who is blocking legislation to prevent foreign meddling, notably Russian meddling, in our elections. It is the job of the Senate to deliberate and vote on issues, in his partisan extreme he has failed as leader of the Senate and should be removed from office.
Something else crazy and shocking happening in our country. The level of gun violence has accelerated to a point where no one can feel completely safe. But in the last week or so there have been three ambush shootings of police. These were not shooting incidents with a fugitive, but ambushes where the officers were just sitting in their patrol cars. If there are warped minds out there thinking about retribution, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will have no eyes or teeth. The police need to learn to de-escalate certain situations, particularly with unarmed persons of color. We must all resolve to avoid all confrontation and violence.
President Trump knew in early February that Covid 19 would be far more lethal than the flu and that it could spread through the air. Bob Woodward got all this on tape. Trump has downplayed the virus while nearly 200,000 people have died to build a story for his re-election.
