David. David.
I saw Kimball on Babylon 5 and checked his biography, but I didn't recognize anything... It's fucking uncanny.
Confusingly, they were both in
The Firm (1993).
Labels: david a kimball, david strathairn, separated at birth
We're not discriminating, it's just gender bias!
From the
Associated Press:
In a letter to Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the federal appeals court judge said she is convinced that the club does not practice "invidious discrimination" and that her membership in it did not violate judicial ethics.
Firstly, "invidious discrimination" is redundant since "invidious" means "discriminatory". I know this because I looked it up. If you're going to use a word I have to look up, at least use it like you aren't named Debra Jo and married to your cousin.
Secondly, YES, if you are a member of a club which prohibits membership based on gender, it IS discriminatory. Where the fuck did Obama find this person?
I want to support her because she's Obama's pick. Flat out, she is just as, if not more, qualified judicially than either Alito or Roberts. Compared to Harriett Myers, she's King Fucking Solomon. But I'm getting less and less impressed by her interpretation of the law. She is not a "liberal" judge. She's a former prosecutor; she follows the law to the letter, even when it contradicts justice; she has the (common) oppressive view of minors, that they are property and lacking in rights; she supports Roe v. Wade.
Yeah, that last one is the clincher. Nothing else matters as long as she favors allowing you to put a pair of scissors in your son's skull before he exits your body. She isn't liberal and she isn't progressive. She's in favor of abortion rights. That's her major selling point, quickly followed by her genitalia and her ethnic background--I don't know that the last two were a requirement for nomination, only that they're being used for promotional purposes.
I want a justice who recognizes that
the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments try to codify a basic tenet of the Framers: Do not EVER give the government the benefit of the doubt and the law must favor the citizen
in all things, especially when accused.
If the letter or the spirit of the law favors the citizen, that is which should be followed.
I want a justice who knows THAT.
Labels: constitution, justice, law, obama, politics, scotus, sotomayor
