Posted on 01/26/2022 12:28:04 PM PST by Enlightened1
White House Press Secretary wouldn’t directly confirm that Biden was selecting Vice President Kamala Harris to fill the Supreme Court vacancy soon-to-be-left by retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
But what Psaki did is narrow down the field to one that would include Kamala Harris. Watch:
https://rumble.com/vtck10-peter-doocy-grills-psaki-on-harris-as-next-scotus-pick.html
“When you were asked about the Vice President, possibly being selected as a Supreme Court nominee, you say you’re not going to speak to any considerations. Does that means she is being considered?” Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked.
Psaki declined to address the question, because she said the retirement “hasn’t been announced.”
She did, however, confirm that he would nominate a “black woman” to the Supreme Court.
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1486424657259646978
“Jen Psaki just reaffirmed that the President will only consider a black woman for the next nomination — a threshold gender and race condition that the Court itself has found unconstitutional for schools and unlawful for private businesses,” Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley noted.
Adding fuel to the fire, Shannon Bream remarks that Breyer hasn’t even confirmed his retirement yet.
https://twitter.com/ShannonBream/status/1486424088654630912
“Multiple sources tell me Justice Breyer was not planning to announce his retirement today,” Bream noted. “They describe him as ‘upset’ with how this has played out. We still await any official notice from his office and/or the #SCOTUS public information office.”
There is some high-level political chess being played, and it may be the case that Breyer is being pushed to retire, presumably so the White House can offload the disgruntled Kamala Harris and replace her with a political operator such as Hillary Clinton.
The New York Times initially reported the news, which does not make it a lock; but when it comes to progressive affairs, the grey lady is typically right.
While Biden is certain to pick a left-wing nominee for the forthcoming vacancy, Byron York earlier noted it is likely to be a black woman:
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1486390931733585921
York noted that Biden said he looked forward to “making sure there’s a black woman on the Supreme Court” in 2020.
The rumor isn’t new that Biden might tap Kamala Harris for the nation’s highest court. In November, we reported that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden may be heading towards a bad breakup. The White House power couple had been locked in a bitter feud going back to the 2020 campaign. There were credible reports of behind-the-scenes maneuvering to ‘get Kamala out’ of the vice presidential role.
Chad Pergram, who is an avid buff of Congressional process and mechanics, disclosed that he received a message from a well-informed insider that told him he should familiarize himself on the process to confirm a “vacancy for the Vice President in the Senate and in the House.”
The mainstream media reacted to the report as Fox News ginning up ‘speculation’ over Kamala Harris’s future. But such reports did not originate with Fox News. After CNN’s admission of the Biden-Harris rift, the Daily Mail reported there was talk of the White House seeking a Supreme Court seat for Harris to get her out of their hair.
“Harris’ approval rating has plunged even further than Biden’s in recent months, with rumors swirling that the president is considering appointing her to the Supreme Court as a backdoor method of selecting a new VP,” the Daily Mail reported.
Kamala Harris’s approval ratings have collapsed to roughly the same abysmal point as Biden’s (CBS/YouGov had them each at a 44 percent approval rating, while 56 percent of respondents disapproved). Her prospects of becoming president have faded fast. The Supreme Court could be her way out… setting the stage for Hillary Clinton.
Harris would first need to be confirmed as Supreme Court Justice, prompting her resignation .Next, Hillary Clinton would need to be nominated for vice president and confirmed by both houses of Congress.
The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which was passed in 1967. Section 2 states:
“Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.”
It would be a highly contentious battle to get Hillary Clinton through the gates and into the White House once again. If the Democrats have any intention of doing so, time is short. Stranger things have happened.
Hispanic? That makes no sense. He looks like a mulatto, and there is no such thing as a “dark hispanic”. That would properly be a mestizo or mulato. “Hispanic” implies some Spanish ancestry, and afaik he claims none in his public statements on his family in Jamaica. And then there is the “dark” - it could be Indian blood, as in the case of most Mexicans and most Central-South Americans (with major exceptions in a few places), but there is very little of that Native American ancestry in Caribbean populations, by genetic analysis. The “dark” part of Puerto Ricans, for instance, is mostly African. This Wiki has studies of Jamaican DNA, both MTDNA (cumulative mothers side) and Y-DNA (cumulative fathers side) and there is very little trace of Native American DNA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Jamaicans#Jamaican_mtDNA
Let's hope that is what will happen.
They weren’t forced out. The lost. Noe enough voters supported them.
elena kagan was once nominated to be a judge, but never was one before being confirmed to the SCOTUS.
She is a lawyer.
They were forced out. Biden’s South Carolina win was a cheat to strengthen his hand on Super Tuesday.
It would be a twofer - two commie/Marxists...
And Biden? Retired once the new VP takes over..
My money is on Big Mike...
Let the Pubbies try reject Obama 2.0...
Yeah Big Mike makes sense. Not sure s(he) would want that
Not going to be Kamala. I can’t see her wanting the job when president is literally a heartbeat or more likely an angry incoherent rant away.
If Joe fumbles and Kamala accedes to the throne she will be primaried in my opinion. But at least she will be 1st female president which makes her queen for a day.
Harris gets to live a long life as a Justice, Dems and assistant Dems settle on a new VP, who takes over for POTATUS after a suitable waiting period.
A little tough on Breyer and Mrs. POTATUS.
I can’t figure why they installed Harris in the first place, knowing POTATUS was unlikely to survive four years. Maybe they couldn’t decide on someone. Or the someone was someone that would turn off voters.
There’s nothing in the Constitution I’ve read that says she can’t vote for herself in the event there is a tie vote that needs broken. She is still president of the senate and vice president until she resigns the office.
I think they could try an end run; they insist that she needs to resign as vice president first and that the judgeship will be hers, and do a quick vote to get a new VP. Then all of a sudden Harris, discovers her nomination is all bottled up due to “concerns”...thus she has no office and no job.
I don’t like Harris but I dislike Biden much worse. She needs to stay and wave off all disingenuous requests that she take “another one up the rear” for the good of the Democrat party! She needs to hold onto what she has got and goad Biden into a complete meltdown.(Ironically it might be the best thing for the country in that this distraction keeps the Dems from being united.) I think we misjudge her and if pushed, like many women scorned, she will go completely nuclear on Biden! I also think our political enemies know this, too and they are in a sore spot about it. They can’t Epstein her or arkancide her, much to obvious.
It’s what happens when they are so quick to cheat on the vote that they never quite thought about the fact that you still need to have competent people in charge.
I apologized to my son today that he as a 20 something yeart old male will be, with many of his peers, having to endure some years of economic pain and instability with no certainty as to what will happen to our country at the other end of it. The Glorious Appearing?
Harris has some leverage and some power here. Yes, she could have an accident or be despondent, but how often do they want to play that card? Moving her to the Court doesn’t cost much and solves a big problem.
It’s never going to happen. Harris is inappropriate for the role. Plus, she doesn’t have the juice to warrant such a plum job. People are delusional.
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I agree with three of four of those sentences but it won’t stop or even slow down democrats from doing really, really stupid s**t.
Juice.
You funny...
I said this as a joke! Just today! OMG.
Kagan wasn’t a justice, but she was a law clerk to a Supreme Court justice, and an appeal court justice. She had an academic career, and was General Counsel. She had light years more experience than Harris. Heck, even Scalia said he hoped Obama should pick her because she was so smart.
You are falling for spin. South Carolina was the first state with significant black voters. Black voters are important in the Democratic primary. Bernie and Pete could wi in states like Iowa and New Hampshire, where there weren't significant black voters, but they got clobbered in states with black voters.
Black voters rejected Bernie twice, and Pete once. Show me any evidence that black voters liked Bernie.
It would benefit the right if they put Harris in. But they won’t.
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