* Why would Republicans on the Senate Judicial committee trash one of the finest Supreme Court Justices, Thurgood Marshall? Are Republicans trying to disrespect, disparage, and smear Justice Marshall because he was the first Black American on the Court? Are Republicans trying to besmirch Justice Marshall because he helped further equality?
Clearly, Republicans on the Judicial Committee are stuck somewhere in the year 1785 in American history--- they seem uncomfortable with the rights of minorities and women.
Here is part of a piece from The Nation:
.....Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, who even by southern Republican standards will win no "Mr. Congeniality" awards, dismissed Justice Marshall - who as chief counsel for the NAACP was one of the epic figures in the history ofd the civil rights struggle and during his judicial tenure emerged as a stalwart defender of the First Amendment rights of dissenters on the right and the left -- as a “well-known liberal activist judge.”
Sessions made his comments to a hearing room where the late justice's son, Thurgood Marshall Jr., was seated behind Kagan, who clerked for the elder Marshall as a young lawyer.
Texas Senator John Cornyn complianed the hearing about Justice Marshall's "judicial philosophy" and argued that "it is clear he considered himself a judicial activist and was unapologetic about it," while Utah Senator Orrin Hatch opined to reporters during a break in the proceedings that much of Justice Marshall's record "really didn't make sense as an obedient student of the practice of law."
Those Republicans are idiots.
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