GOP senator worried Biden's SCOTUS pick won't know a 'law book from a J.Crew catalog'

[turbinetree]

By Igor Derysh, Salon
Published February 02, 2022

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Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., joined a growing chorus of Republicans bashing President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee — well before the president has picked anyone — even as Republican leaders try to avoid a losing fight ahead of the midterms.

Republican Senate leaders worry that picking a fight over Biden's nominee to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, when they lack enough votes to block the nomination, would be "counterproductive" and could "backfire" by distracting from key election issues, according to Wednesday's edition of Politico Playbook. (Judicial nominations cannot be blocked through a Senate filibuster, a change introduced by Republicans when they held the majority.) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told members on Tuesday that replacing a liberal justice with another liberal would not affect the balance of the court, especially after the party packed the court with conservatives under former President Donald Trump.

But some Republican senators have repeatedly attacked Biden for vowing to nominate a Black woman to the court, even though Trump and former President Ronald Reagan similarly vowed to nominate women to diversify a court that has been dominated by white men for generations.

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-senator-thinks-bidens-scotus-pick-wont-know-a-law-book-from-a-j-crew-catalog/

[bluestarone]

1. Too bad this GOP senator isn't worried IF

The last three Justices know the difference between the laws and the FN Bible.

[LonePirate]

2. Where was this concern when ACB was nominated? She couldn't name all of the 1A rights.

[lastlib]

3. Republikanazis seem to think that only considering a black woman is "affirmative action".....

What was it for 180 years when ONLY white MEN were considered??

[ColinC]

8. Doesn't count cause it's in the past

Therefore we should continue operating as if none of it happened. Yes. That is their logic

[Paladin]

4. John Kennedy (R-La.) never misses a chance to flaunt his white-trash credentials. (nt)

[2naSalit]

9. I knew it was him before I read past the headline.

[Paladin]

12. He is complete and utter garbage. (nt)

[True Blue American]

23. You said it!

I applaud you. He thinks he is cute coming across as a faux ole country boy when in reality he just looks stupid. Boss Hogg!

https://www.thedukesofhazzard.nl/the-cast/the-law-in-hazzard/

[calimary]

39. Maybe HE'S the one who can't tell the difference between a law book and a J. Crew catalogue?

Remember this key fact about republi-CONS:

They openly condemn others for doing what they themselves are doing in private.

They’re the “do as I say, not as I do” crowd.

[cilla4progress]

5. This is a veiled dig at Michelle Obama

whose affinity for JCrew and much of her wardrobe was from there - was widely known.

[orleans]

29. i don't think i ever heard that

guess kennedy pays more attention to women's fashion than i do.

[LastDemocratInSC]

6. The two judges currently considered the front runners for the nomination

are far better qualified in the profession of law than Sen. Kennedy. They are accomplished scholars and jurists. Sen. Kennedy is just another tacky, petulant and preening "southern gentleman". In other words, he's an asshole.

[Botany]

7. Red meat for his racist base

Sen. Kennedy's education:

Vanderbilt University (BA)
University of Virginia (JD)
Magdalen College, Oxford (BCL)

[2naSalit]

10. So I have to ask...

Does he have a rich daddy?

[True Blue American]

24. That is what makes his fake

Good ole boy look ignorant. Real country boys are much smarter.

[Botany]

26. Let's see him get his tractor stuck in the mud ...

... and give him a winch, some chains, and a tree as an
anchor and watch him try to get out. The outcome might be deadly to that phony "good old boy.

[True Blue American]

32. I can just see that!:)

[Botany]

34. In November or Dec. of 2001 I remember watching w running a chain saw while standing down hill ...

... from the log he was cutting trying to do his best Ronnie Reagan "clearing brush" act and
the log kicked up almost hitting a man whose job it was to make sure that the dumb fuck didn't
hurt himself and then his chain saw got wedged into the log. I was with a friend and his wife both
of whom have a little country smarts in them and we all started laughing. I thought then and
there we should just give his Stihl chain saw, make sure it starts, and send him out to cut
some wood and Darwin would call him home.

BTW I went to CVS today and got free M-95 masks and cheap home test kits. Joe Biden is the man.

[True Blue American]

37. Ronnie was not a Cowboy either

He just played one on TV! Bush sure left that ranch after he left. Spoiled,little rich boy.

I lucked in, no kits but Meijer was giving the masks out. Went to get ground meat on sale. The poor clerks had them spread out to make the case look fuller but I did get a big package of fresh ground.

Then Tuesday I went to Krogers. Beef roast on sale $4.99. I looked down saw 2 packages they just marked down. The sale date was 3 days ahead, 40% off. Felt so good. The lines were,20,30 long. I walked around, a lane came open, 3 rd in line!

Now, we are getting 6 to 8 inches of snow. The news said panic buying had depleted the stores.

[Botany]

48. However Reagan really could ride a horse, drive a jeep, and do some real live ranch work

I'm no fan of R.R. but he was not a poser like w.

BTW bunch of snow here in central OH

[True Blue American]

49. True!:)

[Botany]

50. The man could ride a horse. w with his pretend ranch in Texas was afraid of horses and his ....

.... cattle were rentals that were brought in right before he "visited" his Prairie Chapel Ranch.



https://i.insider.com/5c62ec4e1631a319925d3657?width=1200

[True Blue American]

51. Is that picture photo shopped?

I have never seen that before!

[Docreed2003]

11. These racists just can't help themselves

He's quite literally saying he doesn't think a black woman is smart or qualified enough to be a Supreme Court justice. I wish these racists fools from Cruz to Kennedy would just once get pushback on their not so thinly veiled racist views

[Joinfortmill]

13. Assholes.

[milestogo]

14. Yeah, because Justice Beer Bong and Justice No Choice were so awesome.

[OldBaldy1701E]

15. "...a court that has been dominated by white men for generations"

Here we go again. It has not been 'dominated by old white men for generations'. It has been dominated by old white men from the beginning! (Media... what can't they re-word to try and keep from getting 'cancel cultured'?)

[jmowreader]

16. That's nice, John

“Doesn’t know a law book from a J. Crew catalog” describes Amy Coney Barrett, chosen only because of her loyalty to Trump…and Kennedy happily voted for her.

Of course, we COULD ask for Deborah Davis, a prosecutor in Michigan who knows her way around both a law book and a J. Crew catalog…but she seems pretty happy with her life in Michigan so why screw that up?

[ancianita]

17. Racist pasty faced cracker motherfucker voted in three anti-abortion federalist society justices.

AND

The bullshit Right considers those below as just hanging with the rich who want to unite the West with Russia, when they are sold out suckups to mafia rule by fossil oligarchs. Do we have fossil oligarchs? fuck yeah. But we also have democratically elected officials who don't play with Putin, who believe in regulation of capitalism and live up to their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution, flawed as it is.

Fuck Kennedy and the fascist hobbyhorse he rode in on.

The 23% of the unserious, illiberal GOP must be beat down for good.

[lagomorph777]

18. I believe he voted for Justice Beerbong, Justice Handmaiden, and Justice Gorsuck

So that flies in the face of his statement.

[Ford_Prefect]

19. Senator Kennedy seems to advocate the "white man's burden" theory of government. What a perfect

example of projecting his own deficits and functional flaws onto an entire class of people he would prefer to hold hostage, if not erase altogether.

I wonder who in his office is the direct link to the Kremlin providing these and other choice remarks and propaganda for dissemination to his base and the MSM. I keep wondering who in the MSM is so stupid that they repeat his vile remarks as gospel, but that is a self answering question.

[Samrob]

20. Is so, even with that she will know more than Kavanaugh and Barrett combined. nt

[Johonny]

21. bigotry, it's all they have

[wryter2000]

22. What a racist POS

I hope some day before I die all these racist assholes have to crawl back under their rocks.

[Carlitos Brigante]

25. Is this that same elitist asshole LARPing as a "good ol' boy from the bayou"? The

one who sounds like he's teabagging Foghorn Leghorn when he talks?

[Jilly_in_VA]

27. Well

Ol' Putty-Face sure doesn't know from J. Crew. Otherwise he wouldn't look like he does.

[PurgedVoter]

28. Projection

[marieo1]

31. Senator John Kennedy is DUMB

Senator John Kennedy, R-LA is the stupidest of senators ever!!! Our President Joe Biden knows exactly how intelligent and capable his Supreme Court nominee is...........he doesn't need a stupid John Kennedy to question his decision. Our dear President knows exactly what he is doing......he is a whole lot smarter with a whole lot more experience than Sen John Kennedy!!!

[True Blue American]

38. Carry on with that thought!

[3825-87867]

33. Well, I guess Sen K(kk)ennedy

won't ever have to worry about being nominated to the Supreme Court!

[mwooldri]

35. He's not going to vote for Bidens nominee.

Biden could nominate Jesus H Christ himself, the white one even, and he would not vote for Jesus just because Biden nominated him. Yes I know an African-American female will be nominated. Yes this so-called Senator is stupid and racially divisive (and I'm being charitable here) and should apologize for his remarks but waiting for an apology from him is like waiting for my Mega Millions lottery ticket numbers to win in a past drawing.

[keithbvadu2]

36. Well, let's see what republicans know about our gov't.

Well, let's see what republicans know about our gov't.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214542886

Tommy Tuberville thinks they three branches of government are "the House, the Senate and executive."

[11 Bravo]

40. This is about the fourth or fifth time Kennedy has employed that same line.

Apparently the senile, mush-mouthed old fuck is incapable of remembering any new material.

[BlueIdaho]

44. That old fossil

Is looking worse every time I see him. He’s just lucky nobody is going to grill him on his knowledge of the constitution. He’d probably wax eloquent on the value of bran in clearing up constipation.

[onenote]

41. Kennedy seems to think the J. Crew comment is a cute dig. He uses it over and over.

Some of the other times he's referred to J. Crew (there probably are others):

November 2021:“I am pro-life. I am anti-Roe v. Wade. . . . But, Mr. President, even pro-choice legal scholars who believe in legalized abortion on demand understand—as does every fair-minded person who knows a law book from a J. Crew catalog—that Roe v. Wade is one of the most arbitrary, it’s one of the most ad hoc, it’s one of the most poorly-reasoned decisions in the history of the United States. Anyone, Mr. President, who knows a law book from a J. Crew catalog also knows that there’s absolutely no foundation—not in the text, not in the structure, not in the history, not in the tradition of the Constitution—for a constitutional right to abortion, and certainly not on the basis of some unmoored general right to privacy that’s not enunciated in the Constitution.”

April 2021: "Anybody who knows a law book from a J.Crew catalog knows that Democrats’ attempt to add D.C. as a state is unconstitutional."

February 2020 (during first Trump impeachment trial): "Anyone who knows a lawbook from a J. Crew catalog does not take this charge seriously."

November 2019: "any lawyer, in my judgment, who knows a law book from a J. Crew catalog knows that a- a sterile transcript is no substitute for live witnesses."

May 2019: “Anybody who knows a law book from a J. Crew catalog knows Roe v. Wade was one of the most poorly reasoned decisions in the history of the United States Supreme Court.”

[DallasNE]

42. Um, Here Is One Of Those Biden Is Said To Be Considering

And her credentials are superior to any of the 3 people that Trump nominated. And she isn't even considered a shoo-in. Makes Sen. Kennedy look like some kind of buffoon - oh, never mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leondra_Kruger

[LiberalFighter]

43. He doesn't know difference between 2 ply and 3 ply.

[WarGamer]

45. Hard to believe he's UVA Law... and editor of the VA Law Review

He sounds like an idiot.

[Permanut]

46. We shouldn't be doing anything with the SCOTUS opening during an election year..

[BlueMTexpat]

47. Ah, the projection!

These GQPers out themselves with every word they say.

[spanone]

52. john kennedy, who shames his namesake, is a racist pos.

plays a southern rube, but he's just another educated asshole.