{"id":51066,"date":"2022-04-01T01:29:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51066"},"modified":"2022-04-01T01:29:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T01:29:07","slug":"gop-concocts-reasons-to-oppose-scotus-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51066","title":{"rendered":"GOP concocts reasons to oppose SCOTUS pick"},"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\">Dang, I hate to say \u201cI told you so\u201d \u2026 but\u00a0<em>I told you<\/em>\u00a0Senate Republicans were going to make up reasons to oppose the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>The latest made-up reason comes from GOP U.S. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, who said he opposes Judge Jackson because of her position on \u201ccourt packing,\u201d a move progressives favor to expand the Supreme Court from nine members to 13 or 15.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I don\u2019t favor court-packing, either. So there. I have cleared the air on that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a Supreme Court justice has no say on the composition of the court. That matter is decided by Congress. Justices don\u2019t vote on it. It\u2019s a purely legislative matter. So, why does Sen. Burr oppose Judge Jackson ascending to the nation\u2019s highest court? Beats the devil out of me, except that he\u2019s a Republican senator and the man who nominated Jackson to the SCOTUS, President Biden, is a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it! Or so it seems!<\/p>\n<p>Judge Jackson is \u201cwell qualified,\u201d according to the American Bar Association, which also gave its highest rating to Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, all of whom received Burr\u2019s endorsement. Oh, wait! A Republican president, a guy named Trump, nominated them.<\/p>\n<p>The good news? Judge Jackson is a heavy favorite to be confirmed by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The phony reasons for opposing her \u2026 be damned!<\/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>Dang, I hate to say \u201cI told you so\u201d \u2026 but\u00a0I told you\u00a0Senate Republicans were going to make up reasons to oppose the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. The latest made-up reason comes from GOP U.S. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, who said he opposes Judge Jackson because of her position &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51066\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP concocts reasons to oppose SCOTUS pick<\/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":[1941,9889,6363],"class_list":["post-51066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-gop","tag-ketanji-brown-jackson","tag-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51066","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=51066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51067,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51066\/revisions\/51067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}