Thread: President Joe Biden

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I think he might have tried drinking bleach.

Nah 3 Pfizer

Originally Posted by beachbound

I wish it were just simple spellchecking. Sifting through your butchered syntax is painful.

The topic is President Joe Biden, and I have addressed it on several occasions. IÂ’ll ask the question, again. What percentage of Americans were vaccinated when Trump left office, and what percentage of Americans are vaccinated now?

Yes you have addressed it on several occasions but you suck at it.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Yes you have addressed it on several occasions but you suck at it.

How many times are you going to repeat yourself, you blathering idiot? Why don't you answer his question?

Originally Posted by bsnub

How many times are you going to repeat yourself, you blathering idiot? Why don't you answer his question?

He won’t, because it doesn’t fit his narrative.

Originally Posted by bsnub

How many times are you going to repeat yourself, you blathering idiot? Why don't you answer his question?

In cases like his, it's not unheard of for people to repeat themselves.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Why don't you answer his question?

…..crickets…..

Can you stupid [at][at][at][at] bitches stop bitching at each other, you're embarrassing yourselves.

Hello repeater How are you?

I have a question which you could answer, given your wealth of knowledge:

What percentage of Americans were vaccinated when Trump left office, and what percentage of Americans are vaccinated now?

Thanks ever so much.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

The big picture: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said last week that the Senate will vote on rules changes to the filibuster by Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 17.

Why does a democratic goverment even needs the Filibuster?
I cant think of any reason other than to subvert democracy.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

Why does a democratic goverment even needs the Filibuster?
I cant think of any reason other than to subvert democracy.

How does it subvert democracy when a majority vote is still required?

Granted, it will come back and bite them in the arse but I don't get your point.

If anyone is subverting democracy it is republican states.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

How does it subvert democracy when a majority vote is still required?

Granted, it will come back and bite them in the arse but I don't get your point.

If anyone is subverting democracy it is republican states.

In a democracy the majority rules, the filibuster allows one individual to change that dynamic and require a super majority, allowing a minority to impose their will .

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

In a democracy the majority rules, the filibuster allows one individual to change that dynamic and require a super majority, allowing a minority to impose their will .

I misread your earlier sentence.

I would agree, but the problem with this is that the Democrats have used it themselves, so there is nothing stopping the next Republican triumvirate from wreaking havoc. They pay no heed to standards of decency these days.

Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from Supreme Court, paving way for Biden appointment

Justice Stephen Breyer will step down from the Supreme Court at the end of the current term, according to people familiar with his thinking.

Breyer is one of the three remaining liberal justices, and his decision to retire after more than 27 years on the court allows President Joe Biden to appoint a successor who could serve for decades and, in the short term, maintain the current 6-3 split between conservative and liberal justices.

At 83, Breyer is the court's oldest member. Liberal activists have urged him for months to retire while Democrats hold both the White House and the Senate — a position that could change after the midterm elections in November. They contended that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stayed too long despite her history of health problems and should have stepped down during the Obama administration.

Biden said in brief remarks to the press on Wednesday that he will leave it to Breyer to formally announce the retirement.

"Let him make whatever statement he's going to make and I'll be happy to talk about it later," he said.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki had earlier tweeted a statement, saying, "It has always been the decision of any Supreme Court Justice if and when they decide to retire, and how they want to announce it, and that remains the case today." The White House had no additional details or information to share, she added.

Biden promised on the campaign trail to nominate a Black woman to the court. In the wake of Breyer’s announcement, there was an outpouring of statements calling for him to follow through. The progressive group Demand Justice hired a truck last year to drive around Washington with the sign: "Breyer Retire. It’s time for a Black woman Supreme Court justice."

Among likely contenders are U.S. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, a former Breyer law clerk; and Leondra Kruger, a justice on California’s Supreme Court.

Jackson, formerly a district court judge in Washington, was nominated by Biden to the U.S. Circuit Court and was confirmed by the Senate in mid-June on a 53-44 vote, including three Republicans. She succeeded Merrick Garland, who left the appeals court to become Biden’s attorney general.

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., was among those who issued a statement soon after the news of Breyer's impending retirement, calling on Biden to uphold his pledge to nominate a Black woman as the next justice.

"The court should reflect the diversity of our country, and it is unacceptable that we have never in our nation’s history had a Black woman sit on the Supreme Court of the United States — I want to change that," she said.

Appointed by President Bill Clinton, Breyer came to the Supreme Court in 1994 and became one of the court's moderate-to-liberal members, though he often said it was misleading to label justices with such terms.

“Joe is like your uncle who’s on a new drug and hasn’t got the dosage right,” Robin Williams. “I’m proud to work with Barack America —" joe Biden

From a Narcissist pig to Mr Alzheimer's

I hope you guys do better next time...

Originally Posted by sabang

What difference does it make? A Democrat President is powerless just like the previous one- unable to achieve anything meaningful by way of reform and national investment, and the next Republican President will just drive the US further towards right wing, populist perdition. I think the United States of America is a lost cause.

All they can really do is cast shade overseas, and blame China and Russia. Hard to believe it would come to this during the term of my natural life.

Nah, the US will keep keepin' on. Always been ups and downs but as Winston noted and I think the same, "Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else."

As a combined, united entity norts? Seriously, I have my doubts right now.

President Biden addresses the nation on the Ukraine-Russia crisis

Biden says US ready to give 'diplomacy every chance to succeed

Originally Posted by S Landreth

President Biden addresses the nation on the Ukraine-Russia crisis

I think he is a massive upgrade of a commander in chief and I am glad he is the president. That said the unwashed are going to most likely give both the senate and house back to the right-wing scum. So predictable and sad.

Biden nominates Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court

President Joe Biden on Friday will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the White House said, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.

In Jackson, Biden delivers on a campaign promise to make the historic appointment and to further diversify a court that was made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries. He has chosen an attorney who would be the high court’s first former public defender, though she also possesses the elite legal background of other justices.

Jackson would be the current court’s second Black justice — Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative, is the other — and just the third in history.

Biden planned to introduce Jackson in remarks at the White House Friday afternoon, where Jackson was also expected to speak, the White House said.

She would also be only the sixth woman to serve on the court, and her confirmation would mean that for the first time four women would sit together on the nine-member court.

The current court includes three women, one of whom is the court’s first Latina, Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Jackson would join the liberal minority of a conservative-dominated court that is weighing cutbacks to abortion rights and will be considering ending affirmative action in college admissions and restricting voting rights efforts to increase minority representation.

Biden is filling the seat that will be vacated by Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, who is retiring at the end of the term this summer.

Jackson, 51, once worked as one of Breyer’s law clerks early in her legal career. She attended Harvard as an undergraduate and for law school, and served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the agency that develops federal sentencing policy, before becoming a federal judge in 2013.

Her nomination is subject to confirmation by the Senate, where Democrats hold the majority by a razor-thin 50-50 margin with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tie-breaker. Party leaders have promised swift but deliberate consideration of the president’s nominee.

The next justice will replace one of the more liberal justices, so she would not tip the balance of the court, which now leans 6-3 in favor of conservatives.

The news comes two years to the day after Biden, then struggling to capture the Democratic presidential nomination, first pledged in a South Carolina debate to nominate a Black woman to the high court if presented with a vacancy.

“Everyone should be represented,” Biden said. “We talked about the Supreme Court — I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a Black woman on the Supreme Court to make sure we in fact get everyone represented.”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin said in a statement that the panel will “begin immediately” to move forward on the nomination and that Jackson is an “extraordinary nominee.” Senators have set a tentative goal of confirmation by April 8, when they leave for a two-week spring recess. Hearings could start as soon as mid-March.

That timeline could be complicated by a number of things, including the ongoing developments between Russia and Ukraine and the extended absence of Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, who suffered a stroke last month and is out for several weeks. Democrats would need Lujan’s vote to confirm Biden’s pick if no Republicans support her.

Once the nomination is sent to the Senate, it is up to the Senate Judiciary Committee to vet the nominee and hold confirmation hearings. After the committee approves a nomination, it goes to the Senate floor for a final vote.

The entire process passes through several time-consuming steps, including meetings with individual senators that are expected to begin next week. While Justice Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed just four weeks after she was nominated ahead of the 2020 election, the process usually takes several weeks longer than that.

Biden and Senate Democrats are hoping for a bipartisan vote on the nomination, but it’s unclear if they will be able to win over any GOP senators after three bitterly partisan confirmation battles under President Donald Trump. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of three Republicans who voted to confirm Jackson to the appeals court last year, had pushed Biden to nominate a different candidate from his home state, Judge J. Michelle Childs. He said earlier this month that his vote would be “very problematic” if it were anyone else, and he expressed disappointment in a tweet Friday that Biden had not nominated his preferred choice.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said he looks forward to meeting with Jackson and “studying her record, legal views, and judicial philosophy.” But he also appeared to express skepticism, noting he voted against her a year ago.

Jackson was on the president’s short list as a potential nominee even before Breyer retired. Biden and his team spent weeks poring over her records, interviewing her friends and family and looking into her background.

Biden has said he was interested in selecting a nominee in the mold of Breyer who could be a persuasive force with fellow justices. Although Breyer’s votes tended to put him to the left of center on an increasingly conservative court, he frequently saw the gray in situations that colleagues were more likely to find black or white.

“With her exceptional qualifications and record of evenhandedness, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be a Justice who will uphold the Constitution and protect the rights of all Americans, including the voiceless and vulnerable,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “The historic nomination of Judge Jackson is an important step toward ensuring the Supreme Court reflects the nation as a whole.”

As part of his search process, Biden, a longtime chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also interviewed Childs and California Supreme Court Judge Leondra Kruger, according to a person familiar with the matter. He also consulted with a wide range of legal experts and lawmakers in both parties and delved deeply into the finalists’ legal writings before selecting Jackson for the post.

Jackson serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a position that Biden elevated her to last year from her previous job as a federal trial court judge. Three current justices — Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts, the chief justice — previously served on the same court.

• Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to top court

Of course Lady G is already criticising the pick because she is Ivy League, although strangely that has never stopped the rent-boy-fucker from voting for conservative ivy league picks in the past.

Presidents are not kings

That time Jackson shredded Trump in a federal court ruling

When the House’s lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena against former Trump White House Counsel Donald McGahn was randomly assigned to Jackson in 2019, the consensus among court watchers was that Trump was likely to be fileted. What emerged from Jackson was an 118-page jeremiad that did not mince words in dissecting Trump’s claim that his advisers had an absolute right to ignore Congressional subpoenas at his direction.

“Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings,” Jackson wrote, dismissing the longstanding argument as “a fiction” and “a proposition that cannot be squared with core constitutional values.”

Beyond that decision and another in which Jackson blocked the Trump administration from expanding the use of expedited deportation proceedings, there are few rulings with clear political overtones.

“There’s very little there that can legitimately be characterized as radical. She’s a judge who takes pains to find and apply the law in an evenhanded manner with a balanced tone,” said Tomiko Brown-Nagin a constitutional law scholar and dean of the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute.

I admire the skill Biden and his administration have displayed during the buildup and continuation of this European crisis.

I do doubt that his administration will get the credit they deserve because the subtlety of their actions will mean that it is not noticed

Such is diplomacy