Posted on 10/14/2020 6:21:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Trump was elected on a simple premise. For too long, the American and global elites had ignored the plight of the average American. Trump’s 2016 electoral victory was echoed in other nations with the Brexit vote and the “yellow jacket” protests in France. The president’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court shows that he continues to be committed to returning power to the forgotten people.
In her opening statement before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Barrett observed that she would be the only justice on the current court that did not attend Harvard or Yale. She defended the honor of her Alma Mater, Notre Dame Law School, and quipped that she might be able to teach the other justices something about football.
There is no question that Atlantic Coast Conference football, where Notre Dame now plays, is far superior to Ivy League football. The same cannot be said about the quality of legal education at Harvard or Yale compared to the many other fine law schools we have across the country. Excellent legal thought and scholarship are not restricted to Boston, Massachusetts or New Haven, Connecticut.
It is interesting to note, that the last four presidents before Donald Trump were all graduates from Yale or Harvard at some level. George W. Bush actually attended both, Yale undergraduate and Harvard Business school. The last two unsuccessful Democratic nominees for president, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, were also Yale products. The last president before Trump who did not go to Harvard or Yale? Ronald Reagan.
Judge Barrett attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee for her undergraduate work and Notre Dame Law School in Indiana. It speaks volumes about Judge Barrett’s talent, abilities, and character that she was able to secure a spot as a clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court, under Justice Scalia, without a Yale or Harvard pedigree. It says even more about her that after the lofty heights of Washington, D.C. and the Supreme Court she decided to return to the heartland to continue her career and raise her family. In a time period where diversity is touted as a virtue, a Justice Barrett would bring diversity of thought and life experience to the Court.
This is not to say that Harvard and Yale are bad schools but thinking that they are the only excellent law schools is based more on snobbery than fact. The people who voted to place President Trump in office had grown tired of the bicoastal elites, who have more in common with the global elites than people in the heartland or as they call it “fly over country.” The elites promised that they knew better than the rest of us, and Americans watched as we lost our sovereignty and our jobs to countries overseas. The elites told us that America is not “exceptional.” The elites did not appear to put the interests of their fellow citizens above their own or those of the rest of the world.
That is why the nomination of Judge Barrett is so refreshing. She is an authentic wife, mother, and brilliant legal mind, straight from the heartland. By putting her forward, President Trump continues to demonstrate his affection for the forgotten people of our country and his disdain for the condescending elites.
Gutless Linda should have smacked that bitch from Hawaii down for her outrages question he but did nothing.
Judging from the results, Harvard and other ivy law schools are not training elites, unless they are referring to social elites. Barrett seems much smarter.
I could not stand that woman from Hawaii.
She really should have shut her mouth, as her ignorance was on full display.
I look at it this way, must be doing great things for the Democrat brand in many places that kind of idiocy, eh?
And unlike Hillary, he isn’t paying off someone for committing a crime to protect him aka Loretta Lynch and the airplane meeting with Bill., who was allegedly offered a SCOTUS seat in exchange for lying to protect H.
He can’t do that. No matter how stupid a fellow senator is, he or she represents American citizens and that person has free speech as long as it does not violate the rules of the senate. If the senate passed a rule to prohibit speech hardly anyone could speak there.
Can you imagine what ACB will do to the occasional pretzel logic (e.g. ACA tax) of John Roberts during SCOTUS conference meetings...?
She’ll carve the “Umpire” up into shreds...
And, do it without notes....!
She comes from an elite family, just not from an Ivy League school. Barrett’s father was a top executive at Shell Oil. Rhodes is a private liberal arts college whose students come from wealthy or semi-weatlthy kids. Notre Dame is not the local community college or night law school.
She comes from the privileged elite. So what? She is damned smart and is clearly an advocate for families.
Note that the Democrats haven’t even taken her on at a personal level.
After Amy answered, Feinstein would say...Well, let's try this then....
Eh, she was supposedly pushed hard as the nominee by the dubious Koch brothers IIRC.
He should have had her removed from the room...period.
He can’t do that. “
Maybe not but as Chairmen he has tools to keep this kind of BS to a minimum. He did nothing. He could at lest ripped into this POS for the degrading and inappropriate question.
When your enemy is destroying themselves don’t interrupt them. Everyone was discussing how stupid crazy Maxie was.
About Notre Dame ... it is an elite school, and lots of kids from coastal elite families come out here.
That said ... allow me to brag on my nephew who’s in engineering at ND. He’s a smart kid and breezed through high school and three years at another college. When he transferred to ND ... that was the first we saw him sweating out his grades. He is making it but he’s having to work his tail off.
If the the law school is as rigorous as engineering, I’m sure Judge Barrett benefited from her education there. Wishing her well.
She really is a dumb cow and never misses the chance to embarrass herself and her party every time she's on camera.
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