If you missed it, Asian Americans have Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) to stand up to Judge Neil Gorsuch.
Gorsuch seemed to dwell on a metaphor that Sen. Ben Sasse first alluded to in his own opening remarks, quoting Gorsuch talking about the importance of a judge’s robe that cloaks a sense of the real person under the robe, supposedly to assure independence and allegiance only to the facts.
But the robe analogy is limited. And the hearings are to make sure we know the man hiding in the robe. We know that Scalia didn’t hide much. Gorsuch deserves no pass because he says he’d be independent.
Gorsuch sure tried to make it sound like he was some man of the people when he referred to his robe as “honest, black, and polyester.”
Well, polyester is unnatural, non-breathable,and totally fabricated.
In other words, fake. Intractable. Polyester is what it is. A chemical truth.
All things, we don’t want in a judge.
And judging from the news about his decisions past, we’ve seen that Gorsuch has used the robe to turn a blind eye to compassionate, human and caring decisions.
Asian Americans will have Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) holding Gorsuch’s polyester robe to the fire.
If she does, note that polyester is flammable.
Let’s hope we see some flames.
If not, well, the Dems don’t seem to have a lot of fight in them to contest Gorsuch.
There was a real mix group of moderates and conservatives sitting behind him including including Asians and African Americans.
But is the 49-year-old Gorsuch the best guy to break the 4-4 deadlock weighing down SCOTUS?
Is he the guy who we want dictating laws the next 30-40 years?
FBI Director James Comey said for the first time that there is an investigation on Trump aides colluding with Russia, but won’t talk about evidence. Comey also debunked Trump claim that Obama was behind any wiretap of Trump Tower, and said his department has nothing to indicate Trump’s tweet claim of “McCarthyism.”
Trump can do nothing but to tweet that all this make work he caused as “Fake,” and tries to re-direct focus on whoever leaked the information against Trump aides.
But this remains Trump’s worst day. Republican committee head Devin Nunes admitted he has no evidence to back Trump’s claim, and seemed frustrated that Comey wasn’t allowed to share any either.
Nunes, the Republican Committee chair from California’s Central Valley, ended today’s session that lasted longer than “Gone With the Wind,” by making an ominous point.
Nunes said the inability of Comey to share more evidence at the hearing puts a real “cloud over the administration.”
Slowly, we are seeing Trump’s flagging credibility sinking before our eyes. I doubt if even an apology to Obama would help at this point.
The Donald at the Merkel presser didn’t like being questioned by the Germans. Just wait till next week when his Obama lie about wiretapping is formally exposed. There is no there there. Just the Donald’s own fake news to distract us from the real issues of Jeff Sessions pre-election actions, and his assault on the poor and middle class through budget cuts and health care decimation.
On the travel ban 2.0’s rejection by a federal judge in Hawaii.
The Justice Dept. is appealing the rejection by a Maryland judge to get it before a different appeals court in Virginia. The whole thing will likely go to the Supreme Court.
Also. an interview with Jenn Fang of reappropriate.co, on Kuchibhotla and whether the South Asian’s killing is a Vincent Chin moment for all Asian Americans.
