Please read my previous post “On the Basis of Sex” about the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
I wrote Joe Biden yesterday urging him to take the position that any person that he nominated to the Supreme Count would need to get a minimum of 60 votes in the Senate. Democrats did away with this requirement some years ago when Republicans led by a younger Mitch McConnell began blocking all the Democratic Judicial nominees. Doing away with the sixty vote requirement, the number needed to break a filibuster, was a mistake. It has led to a far more partisan, divided and mean spirited Senate. Gone is the greatest deliberative body in the world. I see this morning Democrats threatening even more divisive measures if they gain control of the Senate and Republicans, rushing to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat, reasoning that Democrats would do the same to them. Need to think first about the good of the whole country. It is time to end government by partisan death ray. I believe RBG would say the same.
Many thanks for Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins for their principled position that it is too close to an election to fill a Supreme Court vacancy and their recognition that there is a moral and ethical issue involved. Deeply disappointed that no male Republican Senator is able to see the gross unfairness of refusing to even give Merrick Garland a hearing and now contorting and contradicting their previous statements to rush a replacement for RBG.
And this morning the Senate could not even agree on a memorial resolution for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, partisan bickering!!
Also this morning a Republican led Senate committee report accusing the Bidens of wrong doing in Ukraine, repeating a Russian disinformation effort. Thank you Mitt Romney for saying immediately that Senate committees should not be used for political propaganda. I know you have a conscience, you need to hold off this Supreme Court appointment until after the election.
And Breonna Taylor, completely wrongful death. Of course Black Lives Matter because all lives matter.
