That is the conclusion, here. And it is not a wrong-headed one:
. . .As the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will speak with a voice our law has never truly heard. But for as long as the Court is controlled by six far-right radicals, Justice Jackson will too often speak in dissent. To realize her historic potential, Democrats must expand the Court -- giving her four new colleagues who will vote to preserve fundamental rights and work to restore integrity to a failing institution.
The triumph of Justice Jackson’s confirmation cannot be overstated. Her confirmation to the Court breaks a barrier as old as our nation, and helps build a legal system whose decision-makers reflect the people their decisions most affect. President Joe Biden’s nominees to other seats in the federal judiciary have driven this shift: For the first time in history, a majority of a president’s confirmed nominees are women of color. . . .
Republicans frantically tried to turn the hearings about Justice Jackson into hearings about expanding the Court. It is no accident that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s “first and foremost” concern about Justice Jackson was his concern about Court expansion. It is no coincidence that North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis railed against expanding the Court in the same breath that he warned against abolishing the filibuster. And it is no mistake that Utah Senator Mike Lee openly acknowledged that expanding the Court could “change its rulings [on] that portion of the court’s docket that tends to be more politically contentious.” Republicans know that maintaining their power depends on disempowering the American people.
As the party of a dwindling and increasingly radicalized minority, Republicans cannot control the country unless they control the Court. . . .
"Still, like air. . . she'll rise. . ." The vote was 53-47. . . so, why not the other three Mr. Biden had on his prior short list (yes, all women of color!) -- plus say. . . Merrick Garland? Four would do it. Would do it, nicely.
Smile.
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