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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, from a ruthless politico standpoint, this could have been avoided. Bidenworld should have used his trip to campaign during the CA recall in 2021 as an opportunity to pull Newsom/Feinstein aside and figure out a preferred successor. Now Dems have borked themselves on federal judge appointees for the time being (which frankly, is the most substantial thing that can get done with a split Congress) AND due to the open seat in California, you have a race between two Dems sucking up donor money in a deep blue state when they're already going to be playing defense in 5 other races on the 2024 map.

According to FEC fundraising totals, $11 million over the past 3 months went to Schiff+Porter. We're still a year out from the CA primary. It's poor resource allocation. The former political finance consultant within me weeps.[/quote]
It’s even worse because a) Newsom said at some point that if Feinstein resigned he would appoint a Black woman and b) it’s not just Porter and Schiff, Barbara Lee is also running, so if Newsom fulfills his promise he picks one of the three candidates running in the primary and bumps them up so they’re running as an incumbent. There are some good caretaker candidates like Jerry Brown or Barbara Boxer or my girl crush Jackie Speier but none of them are Black women.[/quote]

Identity politics strikes again. 
Will the Democrats ever learn?[/quote]
Ketanji Brown Jackson has been a great justice. Kamala Harris, other than RWNJs hating her like crazy, has been fine.

You, on the other hand, will always be racist. [/quote]

You haven't heard Brown in oral arguments.  She is pretty limited and I am as ultra liberal Dem as they come.   The only justices with legal skills are Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Gorsuch.  [/quote]

Brown sounds pretty good to me. And expert court watchers don't agree with you.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/12/supreme-court-new-bench-with-ketanji-brown-jackson-justices-speaking-more-oral-arguments/
n the first three months of the 2022-23 term, the Supreme Court’s newest member, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, was by far the most active participant in oral arguments, according to an analysis of the written transcripts for the 27 cases the court has heard so far.

Jackson has spoken, on average, nearly 1,350 words per argument. The court’s next most-talkative members — Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Neil Gorsuch, in that order — each have spoken, on average, between 800 and 900 words per argument.

Jackson’s dynamic style is a marked contrast from her predecessor, Justice Stephen Breyer. Breyer himself was far from succinct, and he was famous for asking long, winding hypothetical questions. Jackson, in contrast, often uses her time to make substantive points about the case being argued. Perhaps the starkest example came in Merrill v. Milligan, in which she invoked originalism — an approach typically associated with the conservative justices — to argue that the 14th Amendment does not mandate colorblind policies. Her persuasive approach is consistent with the recent trend of the justices tending to use oral arguments, especially in the most divisive cases, less to gather information and more to air their own views.

Fatima Goss Graves, the president of the National Women’s Law Center, praised the “teaching quality” of Jackson’s questions, including “the deliberate way in which she explains and her level of preparedness.” Sherrilyn Ifill, a senior fellow at the Ford Foundation and a former president of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, described Jackson’s “signature style” as “sharp, focused questions, a mastery of the record, and upbeat but often devastating lines of investigation that leave little room for advocates to hedge or dissemble.”

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