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During the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson President Joe Biden's nominee to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee has resorted to nonstop buffoonery while playing the culture war card. And the GOP senator was clearly pandering to far-right evangelical voters when, on March 23, she tweeted, "The Constitution grants us rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness not abortions."
But as Blackburn's critics are pointing out, "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. It's in the Declaration of Independence.
Link to tweet
https://www.salon.com/2022/03/26/marsha-blackburn-mistook-the-constitution-for-the-declaration-of-independence_partner/
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Just wish it were unbelievable, but the GOP hasn't been packed with these types to protect the constitution, quite the contrary.
Botany
(70,581 posts)... Constitutionally protected "right to privacy." Which would be covered the 14th amendment.
* First time ever. Botany =
Emile
(22,908 posts)Walleye
(31,045 posts)Women had to fight tooth and nail for another 120 years just to get a mention in the document
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)of the Constitution so they can focus on natural law as they see it.
Botany
(70,581 posts)from the article
HuffPost's Ed Mazza notes, "Blackburn has something of a history of constitutional screw ups. Last year, she vowed: 'We will never rewrite the Constitution of the United States,' seemingly ignoring the 27 times it's been amended. Blackburn even co-sponsored resolutions in support of three potential amendments."
Hell, those mother fuckers blew off the U.S. Constitution in bush v Gore by making it illegal to count the votes
legally cast in Florida. One of the reasons why so many on the right and their rich supporters have worked to
pack the courts is because that way they can still keep power as the demographics will grind the GOP in the dust
..... as long as they allow fair voting.
sorry to
Walleye
(31,045 posts)Seinan Sensei
(366 posts)US Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) Officers ask applicants for citizenship "up to 10 of the 100 civics questions. An applicant must answer 6 out of 10 questions correctly to pass the civics portion of the naturalization test."
My opinion?
If you want to be an elected official of these here United States (any level) you should be asked all 100 questions.
And you should have to correctly answer all 100 questions.
This way you can still be a moron. But if you want to govern/legislate/judge, you have to be an educated moron.
See www.uscis.gov for further.
spanone
(135,873 posts)dumber than a rock
Botany
(70,581 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)kairos12
(12,872 posts)Pottery Barn description of a door knob.
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)She does not know what planet she is on.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)Huffing hair spray fumes for way too long.
DFW
(54,436 posts)She mistakes the U.S. Senate for her daily meeting of the women's auxiliary of the KKK, too.
Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)Guy get elected to do a job. That job is being in the US Government. Theyre supposed to know about the founding documents of that government more than the average person.
Republicans are electing know nothing idiots.