No one applies to be a justice on the Supreme Court Charlie and even if you're a serious student of the law and the Constitution that does not ensure you are in the running to become a nominee, whatever your gender, religion or ethnic origin.
I invite everyone to listen to Breyer's remarks today at the White House, and what he found …
No one applies to be a justice on the Supreme Court Charlie and even if you're a serious student of the law and the Constitution that does not ensure you are in the running to become a nominee, whatever your gender, religion or ethnic origin.
I invite everyone to listen to Breyer's remarks today at the White House, and what he found most thrilling about being a judge on the high court. And Biden's criteria for choosing the first black woman to be his nominee—what is there, really, to quibble about?
We don't have the luxury of having a more perfect union when we can only achieve every right thing for every right reason. This ideal makes the good the enemy of the perfect. Taking umbrage at Sullivan's remarks and those of others with harsher assessments (including yours) may not mean they or you are wrong, but it also does not mean all of you are mostly right either in our ongoing and fraught experiment in democracy.
Excellence, as Breyer exemplifies and Biden echoed, is a better goal for our nation than criticisms others can make against Biden wanting to name the first black woman to sit on the court. The first black woman on the Supreme Court? Why, that’s an excellent thing to do and to accomplish. It grows my own pride and love for my country as a retired White man as well as, I’m certain, many millions of other Americans unlike me. Biden’s choice, whatever the reasons for it, advances our democracy and our common good immeasurably.
No one applies to be a justice on the Supreme Court Charlie and even if you're a serious student of the law and the Constitution that does not ensure you are in the running to become a nominee, whatever your gender, religion or ethnic origin.
I invite everyone to listen to Breyer's remarks today at the White House, and what he found most thrilling about being a judge on the high court. And Biden's criteria for choosing the first black woman to be his nominee—what is there, really, to quibble about?
We don't have the luxury of having a more perfect union when we can only achieve every right thing for every right reason. This ideal makes the good the enemy of the perfect. Taking umbrage at Sullivan's remarks and those of others with harsher assessments (including yours) may not mean they or you are wrong, but it also does not mean all of you are mostly right either in our ongoing and fraught experiment in democracy.
Excellence, as Breyer exemplifies and Biden echoed, is a better goal for our nation than criticisms others can make against Biden wanting to name the first black woman to sit on the court. The first black woman on the Supreme Court? Why, that’s an excellent thing to do and to accomplish. It grows my own pride and love for my country as a retired White man as well as, I’m certain, many millions of other Americans unlike me. Biden’s choice, whatever the reasons for it, advances our democracy and our common good immeasurably.
Case closed.
Ditto - except I'm a retired white female.