Virginia Thomas, whose husband is Justice Clarence Thomas, was revealed to have played a role as a right wing organizer supporting Donald Trump’s fraudulent efforts to stay in office despite losing the 2020 presidential election. Is this consistent with the behaviour expected of a Supreme Court judge’s spouse?
Will the US Senate confirmation hearing for President Joe Biden’s nominee of Ketanji Brown Jackson for the US Supreme Court become just an effort to feed opposition to Biden? The hearing has become a Republican vs Democrat battle over issues that have little to do with jurisprudence or judicial temperament.
President Joe Biden is making his first court appointment. Will ideologically split political parties treat the nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to a theatrical takedown over issues which have little to do with jurisprudence or judicial temperament?
The assumption is that Ketanji Brown Jackson might get the same three Republican votes her appeals court appointment brought last year from Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and South Carolina’s Lindsay.