Senator Durban says no to hearings on Alito?

[Eliot Rosewater]

Holy fuck.

[SheilaAnn]

1. Any explanation? n/t

[TexasDem69]

2. Hearings on what?

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. The flags at his house and summer house

[Demsrule86]

4. We can't do anything at this point.

[TexasDem69]

6. A "hearing" on Alito's flag preferences

Is fundamentally inconsistent with what Democrats should support, namely freedom of speech. Holding a hearing because Alito displayed flags that supported Trump or the insurrection smacks of McCarthyism to me. Democrats would rightly lose their minds if Congress held a hearing about a flag one of the liberal justices displayed at her private residence.

And even if a hearing wasn’t completely inappropriate, what’s the point? There’s zero chance Alito is impeached so this would just be wasting money and time that could be spent elsewhere.

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. Yeah, you're right. What was

I thinking, we don’t need to do everything in our power to make sure the rest of the country realizes Supreme Court justices are part of the stop the steal movement, we aren’t in a severe, urgent, emergency situation where we are going to lose our democracy, we don’t need to make a lot of noise to make sure everybody knows what’s going on.



Either Democratic politicians start making tremendous noise at every opportunity and show fight to that half of the country that sees no reason to bother to vote or we are going to lose it all guaranteed.

We are months away from what the GOP has said we’ll be a united Reich or a new Nazi party. If we don’t see that now, then Jesus fucking Christ.

[TexasDem69]

15. I guess we just throw the rule of law by the wayside?

Because we don’t like Trump or his supporters. No thanks. If you want to hold Congressional hearings because a Supreme Court justice flew a flag you dislike you’ll find no support from me. That’s exactly the sort of thing Trump would do. It’s pointless and unbecoming of Democrats. It’s the sort of abuse of power we should condemn, not condone.

[tableturner]

17. We would NOT be throwing out the rule of law by having hearings! You can give up; I and most Dems are NOT!

[Tribetime]

14. A supreme court justice can absolutely never do anything like that

[tableturner]

16. This is the approach that has caused Republican messaging to beat ours, even when we are right!

This is how we let Republicans turn an almost nothing, or an actual nothing, into something big, while our surrogates turn something that is actually big into a nothing...because of messaging (or a lack thereof)...which is why we often lose the argument even when the facts are on our side.

Dick Durban's saying there is no point to holding hearings about Alito because he says there is nothing to be gained from that. There IS something to be gained from that!

If we did what the GOP does so often to make a nothing burger an actual issue in the minds of too many voters (and OUR issue in this case is legitimately a BIG issue), that would not only put pressure on the Court, but would also serve at least to some extent to inform low information voters about this, in lieu of their picking it up on their own, which many of them will not do. And THAT would add more pressure. We not only should push hearings, but Democratic surrogates should also be flooding the airwaves slamming Alito and the Court with the same zeal and alacrity as the GOP always does with their PHONY issues!

And don't forget: all of this will help our election prospects by clearly making our correct argument to the voters, but appeasement will most definitely NOT!

And it has NOTHING to do with McCarthyism! It has EVERYTHING to do with a guy who is a Supreme Court justice who is openly supporting the coup! My God! What more do you need?

How about we learn from the GOP? The approach shown in the post I am replying to is why we lose too often even when we are right! Some of you will blast me. I don't care. I'm tired of our passive efforts allowing scummy right-wing extremists to make progress that we could easily defeat if we fought hard!

[budkin]

18. Wrong. This is a justice of the Supreme Court

They are not supposed to have an obvious political bias, nor should they be flying flags that openly support said bias while they are ruling on related cases.

[kacekwl]

5. What's the point ?

We can't get rid of a treasonous criminal rapist former president running for president again no way we can rid ourselves of a SCJ.

[tableturner]

19. Okay...just give up! Sheesh...

[budkin]

20. We need to do it to draw attention to it

Alito is literally flying his political bias in our faces.

[Patton French]

7. Link? NT

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. Wasn't that hard to find, not sure why you didn't Google it yourself

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/key-senate-democrat-doesnt-plan-probe-justice-alito-upside-flag-rcna153170

[Patton French]

9. I'm in the middle of grilling and preparing dinner for a bunch of rising seniors.

I’m truly sorry if I offended you.

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. All good

I was being lazy and should’ve provided the link.

[budkin]

11. Simply unacceptable

This fascist needs to be hauled in front of the judiciary committee NOW. If Durbin doesn’t have the balls, then he needs to step down and let someone who does take over.

[Eliot Rosewater]

13. Thank you, and I'm afraid the mainstream of our party in power

Still thinks this is the old days and that they have to act that way, and it is the death of us for certain.