After a couple of decades plus of infecting the American political system Moscow Mitch McConnell may be on his way out. In his years in power, Mitch has managed to pervert politics in ways that would make Nicolo Machiavelli blush, because as degenerate as Mitch is, he is a very smart guy who wants to leave our governmental process crippled by an ultra conservative Supreme Court. Mitch knows that power in congress changes from election to election but the Court remains kind of inert no matter what happens in congress. To that end he pulled off a crooked deal at the end of the Obama presidency and now he’s trying to pull another crooked deal and flip that process to get another conservative on the Court.
He wants this one so bad that he has deliberately delayed getting the Senate involved in a desperately needed bill that would get much needed funding into the hands of people and states that are being killed by the Coronavirus. That has all been put on hold until he gets his judge on the Court. It’s called a choice for the party but not the people.
Amy Coney Barrett was chosen by Trump on orders from the ultra-conservative Federalist Society and although it looked pretty good at the moment it may be turning sour in Mitch’s avaricious hands.
Don’t mistake what I say. Barrett will be nominated to the Court. She will be replacing a woman who was an icon of women’s rights and progress. Unfortunately it looks like she will be the exact opposite of what we have lost.
Barrett is a brilliant woman, a world-class student and teacher who receives nothing but praise from her contemporaries, most of it justly deserved.
I find it interesting that her opposition has assiduously avoided the one subject that, to my mind, is the most disqualifying. I am not speaking about her religion but about her membership in a cult named People of Praise.
We all knew Barrett was a staunch Roman Catholic, but what we didn’t know was that she is also a lifelong member of a cult. When I see Catholics, who are already enmeshed in an all- encompassing religion, looking around for even more structure, control and fanatic religiosity, I start to get suspicious. And when I start to hear talk about submission and male control, I know my suspicions have a basis in reality. So when I hear about Amy Coney Barrett being a “handmaid” of the People of Praise I have to think that maybe this bright, well educated woman, who just received a vote of no-confidence from her fellow Notre Dame faculty members, still leaves a lot to be desired before she can step into the shoes of Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Maybe it’s that, as a cult member under the control of the male leader, she is way too influenced by others. What we want on the Supreme Court are judges who are above the influence of outsiders, especially when those outsiders are the leaders of a secret religious cult.
Barrett has already been pretty clear as to where she stands on a number of issues. She has tried to mitigate her positions during the hearings by explaining that her personal beliefs have no standing on her ability to interpret the law as a judge. That would be all to her credit if that was what we were dealing with. However her membership in a cult where male dominance is the rule and female submission the result, leaves all her arguments open to the probability that her decision-making could be more than influenced by the cult leader to whom she is a self described “handmaid,” especially if those decisions had to do with subjects that the leader of a super religious cult was dead set against.
This is a nation that on its better days has always looked to support the concept of freedom of religion but it also has had to be careful of religion’s habit of creeping proselytization. Encouraging a member of a secret religious cult to occupy a seat on our highest court is hardly the way to maintain that position, especially when that potential judge has placed herself under the influence of a male leader for whom, the strictures of the Roman Catholic faith aren’t strong or restrictive enough.
I am not, in any way, saying that Amy Coney Barrett should not be considered because of her faith. What I am saying is, she must not be considered because, as a cult member, she has chosen to submit her own decision making to that of another and in doing so has disqualified herself from consideration as a member of the Supreme Court. It is imperative that we know, without doubt, who is making the decisions on cases brought before the court and in Mrs. Barrett’s case; this is just not a possibility.
I think it is absolutely imperative that Amy Coney Barrett is rejected by congress for the open seat on the court and no further nominations are accepted from our addled President.
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The Supreme Court’s authority comes not from having an army behind it but from the belief that these are honest men and women who are working to make decisions that will make life better for the American people. The Republican Party’s last two appointments eroded that faith by installing judges who were considered, not because of their talents or ideas but because of their political affiliations. This nomination is just more of the same and while it may give the conservative right more punch it creates a further erosion of faith in said Court by the American people.
And lastly I think we have to take a look at Alliance Defense Fund, a primarily anti-gay hate group before whom Mrs. Barrett was paid to speak five times. Yes, she was paid and no we don’t want her to have to take bread from her flock of children but if it’s all okay, how come she admitted she was “aware” of the group’s program of hate when questioned by Al Franken at the 2017 appeals court confirmation hearings and then denied it when asked about it by Senator Leahy at the current Senate hearings?
The problem here is not with ADF. They are already an established hate group that has spread their bile across international tribunals. The problem is Barrett’s support of the group. Does it come from her need for a speaker’s fee, her own personal prejudice or that of the leader of People of Praise? You can bat that one around all you want but it really doesn’t matter. What matter’s is that she has and apparently continues to support this hate group and its anti-gay philosophy and if that doesn’t disqualify her from a Supreme Court judgeship than nothing does. Apparently neither Trump nor McConnell think it does.