{"id":51026,"date":"2022-03-26T01:45:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T01:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51026"},"modified":"2022-03-26T01:45:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T01:45:45","slug":"scotus-fight-could-get-more-toxic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51026","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS fight could get more toxic"},"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\">So, you might think the fight over whether to approve President Biden\u2019s selection of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court is as toxic as it gets. Guess again.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Jackson\u2019s addition to the court doesn\u2019t change the ideological balance on the body. It remains a 6-3 conservative majority court. Yet, Senate Republicans have chosen to demonize her in ways that I find repugnant.<\/p>\n<p>The fecal matter will really hit the fan if this president gets to select a court nominee to replace one of the conservative justices serving on the nation\u2019s highest court. Yes, I have Justice Clarence Thomas \u2014 one of the right wing\u2019s favorite judges \u2014 in mind as I suggest that.<\/p>\n<p>Just suppose Justice Thomas resigns as the heat comes to a full boil over his wife\u2019s far-right-wing political activism. Suppose that Biden gets to select a nominee to succeed Thomas. Whoever the president chooses will be of a more\u00a0<em>liberal\/progressive<\/em>\u00a0slant. Correct?<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans will go ballistic, just as they did in 2016 when Justice Antonin Scalia died and President Obama sought to replace him with a moderate judge named Merrick Garland.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is my way of condemning the toxicity that infects every single decision these days in Washington, D.C., a place that once sought to pride itself on bipartisan collegiality.<\/p>\n<p>It now relishes its new role as a snake pit. I am not predicting any of this will occur. I merely am preparing everyone for the bloodbath that could occur if it does.<\/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>So, you might think the fight over whether to approve President Biden\u2019s selection of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court is as toxic as it gets. Guess again. You see, Jackson\u2019s addition to the court doesn\u2019t change the ideological balance on the body. It remains a 6-3 conservative majority court. Yet, Senate Republicans have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51026\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SCOTUS fight could get more toxic<\/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":[2505,6363,8517],"class_list":["post-51026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-scotus","tag-toxicity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51026","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=51026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51027,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51026\/revisions\/51027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}