{"id":50982,"date":"2022-03-21T21:41:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50982"},"modified":"2022-03-21T21:41:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:41:04","slug":"now-for-the-inquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50982","title":{"rendered":"Now, for the inquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Ketanji Brown Jackson promised to \u201cuphold and defend the Constitution\u201d if she is confirmed to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Of course, that\u2019s what they all say.<\/p>\n<p>In her case, I believe her. I believe that President Biden\u2019s nominee to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer is a woman of her word. She oozes integrity and decorum.<\/p>\n<p>However, none of this is likely to curb the criticism of her record that is sure to come from Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans who will look for any reason \u2014 even made-up reasons \u2014 to oppose her confirmation to the nation\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Jackson, who has appeared before the Senate panel already while being confirmed to lower court posts, is a history-making jurist. She is the first African American woman ever nominated to the high court; Biden pledged to find a highly qualified Black woman to sit on the court. He delivered big time!<\/p>\n<p>I believe she will be confirmed. It will be a bloodbath, more than likely. Then again, that\u2019s become the norm for virtually every Supreme Court nominee since the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Judge Jackson will uphold and defend the Constitution. She knows the lines she cannot cross.<\/p>\n<p>The judge will make a stellar SCOTUS justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ketanji Brown Jackson promised to \u201cuphold and defend the Constitution\u201d if she is confirmed to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Of course, that\u2019s what they all say. In her case, I believe her. I believe that President Biden\u2019s nominee to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer is a woman of her word. She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50982\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now, for the inquisition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2505,9889,6363],"class_list":["post-50982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-ketanji-brown-jackson","tag-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50983,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50982\/revisions\/50983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}