U.S. District Thug

Republicans just voted to confirm Emil Bove. Despite whistleblowers confirming he urged them to ignore court orders. Despite it being clear he lied to the Judiciary Committee. And despite the danger he poses to the rule of law. The corruption of the bench continues.

— Sen. Adam Schiff (@schiff.senate.gov) July 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Another reason to vote blue in 2024

Trump says he will appoint extreme MAGA judges who are as young as possible so they will be in power for “50 years” if he wins pic.twitter.com/5dBy4x02sD

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 18, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Mitch McConnell can go fuck himself

What a grotesquely sinister projection. After refusing to give a hearing to an eminently qualified SCOTUS nominee, & presiding over the confirmation of an array of under-qualified Trump fed ct nominees incl some w/no record of litigation or scholarship, this is rich. https://t.co/L5elBe58oX

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) January 31, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

This Senate Democratic Majority confirmed a historic slate of 97 diverse, well-qualified judicial nominees.

We will keep going, and our democracy will unquestionably be better for it! pic.twitter.com/o3CQjY08x7

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 23, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

Only the Democratic Party truly represents all of America

Trump judges: 76 % men and 85 % white.
Biden judges: 78 % women and 53 % people of color

https://t.co/ETLGr0OZ96

— Chris Cioffi (@ReporterCioffi) January 10, 2022

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

 

And the lack thereof

Thanks but no

My biggest remembrance of Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is from 2014 when she was being interviewed on Rachel Maddow's show concerning the Farm Bill from that year that was coming up for a vote.  The Farm Bill is where the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (more colloquially, Food Stamps) is funded, and that year's bill (which was sponsored by my sad sack Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow) was going to lead to several thousand Americans losing benefits and going hungry.  When asked by Maddow about the bill, Klobuchar responded that it didn't affect Minnesota, so she was going to vote for it even if thousands of Americans were going to go hungry (note that current Democratic Presidential hopefuls Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Kirsten Gillibrand voted against the bill for just that reason).  Her rationale for voting for the bill seemed to me a callous and hollow response.

So it came as no surprise to me this week when news leaked that Klobuchar had voted to confirm more judges nominated by Donald Trump than any of her fellow contenders--and by a considerable margin (better than 25% more).  One wonders how she'll rationalize this, as Trump is nominating right wing ideologues who stand to do considerable harm to workers' rights, workers' paychecks, Americans' healthcare, voting rights, LGBQT rights, and a host of other that will most certainly affect Minnesotans.

Frankly, what this country needs in its post-Trump era is a President borne of the courage and fortitude that makes up the Democratic Party and it platform and not weak kneed Democratic lite candidates like Amy Klobuchar.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

With Dems like Stabenow, who needs republicans?

For whatever reason, President Obama decided to make a deal with the devil and/or Georgia's two republican Senators and nominated Michael Boggs for the District Court of Northern Georgia.  Boggs is a ConservaDem who as a legislator in Georgia voted to keep the Confederate flag insignia in Georgia's flag, is anti-abortion, anti-civil rights, and anti-marriage equality.

In other words, he's a Democrat like a bear is a chimpanzee.

Needless to say, his nomination has Liberal groups in an uproar, and one of the many that send me constant e-mails about the issues of our day asked me to send an e-mail to my Senators demanding they oppose Bogg's nomination.  This is the letter I got from Senator Debbie Stabenow:


Dear Mark,

Thank you for contacting me about the nomination of Michael Boggs to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. I understand your concerns.

The Senate is charged by the U.S. Constitution with an "advice and consent" role in the appointment process, which ensures that all nominations made by the President are thoroughly reviewed. I take this Constitutional mandate very seriously, as do my colleagues.

Mr. Boggs's nomination is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which I am not a member. Should this nomination come before me for a vote, I will keep your views in mind.

Thank you again for contacting me. Please continue to keep me informed about issues of concern to you and your family.

Sincerely,

Sincerely,

Debbie Stabenow
United States Senator 

Stabenow is a Democrat from a Northern state, pro-choice, pro-marriage equality, and relies heavily on African-American and women's votes to keep her job...and when it comes to a nominee who is the antithesis of all of this, she will "...keep [my] views in mind."

What the fuck?  Try, "Should this nominee come before me in a vote, I will not support his nomination."  Doesn't have to be mean, doesn't have to be heavy-handed, but for fuck's sake, Francis, it should be a no brainer, emphatic "NO!"

With Democrats like Senator Wishy-Washy Stabenow, it's getting harder and harder to believe we aren't going to absolutely get our clocks cleaned come November.

Peace,

emaycee

Boom goes the dynamite, BOOM!

The funniest thing about today's use of the nuclear option to end republican filibusters of the President's judicial and executive nominees (and wasn't it wonderful to watch Democrats go badass on republican obstructionism) was the republicans' claims that eventually Democrats would regret it.

Regret what?  Democracy working the way it's supposed to?  If the republicans win back the White House in 2016 (and, boy, what are the odds I take up drinking and smoking again should that happen), they should be able to nominate and have an up or down vote on who they want for the nation's courts.  Frankly, we have hearings on the nominees--if a republican nominee turns out to be a member of the Klan (not as unlikely as you might think), Democrats can vote against him, republicans can vote for him and try to explain to the American people why they think a member of the Klan belongs on the bench of one of our courts or in the President's inner circle.

What the republicans are really bemoaning is that this was another colossal fuck-up on their part--they pushed too far and the Democrats had finally had enough.  And now there are 93 judicial vacancies that President Obama can fill if he so chooses which would give the Democrats a commanding majority in America's courts.

Peace,
emaycee

Damn straight

We've been told that elections have consequences...but apparently that isn't so when Democrats win them.

Republican obstructionism on judicial nominations and vacancies to oversight organizations like the NLRB has virtually reached the point of absurdity.  We've held the Senate and the Presidency since 2008 and there are still an inordinate amount of vacancies on the courts.  The NLRB will soon be unable to do its job because of a lack of board members due to republicans filibustering President Obama's nominees.

Harry Reid is threatening to change the Senate rules (again) so that nominees can pass with a simple majority (this is what we call a democracy, for our less than bright republican friends), but it appears his margin of victory is so thin its anorexic.  Nice then that Larry Cohen, President of the Communication Workers of America, is threatening Democrats who do not support this with both a complete loss of support and primaries from candidates who actually care about the American people.

One hates to reach a point where we sound like republican fanatics, and even though we are the party of the big tent, we have to have bare minimum support from our Congresspersons on the core principles of our party.  As Mr. Cohen states, without that support such Congresspersons are worthless to us.

Even worse, it makes it so republicans don't have to win elections--they can merely obstruct, obstruct, obstruct, and any hope for making life better for the working men and women of America fades like the setting sun.

Democracy destroyed.

Peace,
emaycee