Durbin pushing through historic diversity
on federal bench
Chicago Sun-Times,
by
Lynn Sweet
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
1/3/2023 7:12:38 PM
Washington - With Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., wielding the gavel as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Joe Biden outpaced Donald Trump and Barack Obama in confirming federal judges at the midpoint of their respective terms.
The new judges are part of a historic transformation of the federal bench in terms of race, gender, ethnicity and experience, including in federal courtrooms in Chicago. Until Biden, most federal judges were white males, with the door closed to almost all other lawyers.(Snip) Looking ahead, the issue will be filling vacancies from states with GOP senators who may want to block Biden’s lifetime appointments.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/3/2023 7:23:08 PM (No. 1370209)
Diversity meaning no white males.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 1/3/2023 7:45:42 PM (No. 1370217)
#1, diversity meaning the end of America.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
4Diogenes 1/3/2023 7:53:51 PM (No. 1370224)
We pick fair minded judges. They pick partisan hacks. We lose.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
paral04 1/3/2023 7:59:40 PM (No. 1370230)
How about looking for people who are competent and don't have chips on their shoulders?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
CivilServant 1/3/2023 8:29:24 PM (No. 1370243)
Merit, skill and ability have only one place left in America, thanks to the traitorous, vermin Left:
The sports field.
Progressives delenda est.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Socio 1/3/2023 8:56:23 PM (No. 1370252)
Sounds like the Democrats are putting any chance of a fair and impartial judicial system as far out of reach as possible.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kono 1/3/2023 9:07:01 PM (No. 1370256)
Diversity can be nice to have; but not at the expense of merit. At least "Affirmative Action" claimed to take the best but favor minorities if candidates had arguably equal qualifications. This woke stuff doesn't even pretend to pursue the best qualified or the hardest worker -- those are now condemned as "white supremacist" goals.
The quality of work results cannot be increased by making increased diversity the top priority. The goals conflict, or are at best orthogonal to each other.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Birddog 1/3/2023 9:18:37 PM (No. 1370258)
Poor guy, all of the low hanging fruits of "Historical 1st ever(fill in the blank) appointment" have been taken...but...That deaf dumb and blind Kid, 1st Non-English speaking, 1st 10 time Felon out on no cash bail, 1st Illegal alien with case pending, 1st Terrorist with a Commuted Sentence, all professing to some obscure gender combination as well as notch on the Autism spectrum? Happy Hunting...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 1/3/2023 10:03:39 PM (No. 1370281)
Massive numbers of incompetent fools being put onnnthe bench.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
nerdowell 1/3/2023 11:06:46 PM (No. 1370306)
It's always white guys telling younger white guys to step back so the "Le Plat Du Jour" minority can finally be equal to all these unemployed white guys..
The older guy is the visionary, the artist who, noticing a smudge on a museum masterpiece, whips out a brush and smears it out-- only this is no ordinary picture. But...
The eyesore is gone! The idyll is restored. At last the bells in the little village church can ring out, without shame.
But... most of all...
An Angel Has Earned His Wings! See? He , he told us...
But notice how these heroic gentlemen never vacate their own spot to uplift the downtrodden? it's always somebody else's.
But think a minute: how many unemployed great eminences have you met? see? It's a plain fact: nobody can be such a imminent personage without a fancy job!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Italiano 1/3/2023 11:35:41 PM (No. 1370314)
Blind diversity = Incompetence, as we consistently see.
Needed saying. Sorry, not sorry.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
lakerman1 1/3/2023 11:49:45 PM (No. 1370318)
Labor law is a different animal, requiring a lot of lawyerly skils. But becaue the area is so speialize, nd operates under different rules, going from successful labor lawyer to federal judge is not necessarily an easy transition.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
gramma b 1/4/2023 2:29:51 AM (No. 1370341)
Federal judges used to have a reputation as being smarter than state court judges because they were selected on merit. Not anymore.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
planetgeo 1/4/2023 3:45:28 AM (No. 1370354)
Yes, and the result is already very evident in the war zones called Chicago and Illinois.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/4/2023 7:41:48 AM (No. 1370399)
Yeah, that's exactly what we need. Fix it by breaking it further. It has worked so well everywhere else.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/4/2023 8:06:51 AM (No. 1370418)
The Clown Car continues to grow.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
privateer 1/4/2023 8:31:39 AM (No. 1370441)
In the interest of Infirmative Action, Dick H.Durbin must step down, and allow his Senate seat to be filled by a black woman. Preferably a trans woman.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/4/2023 8:50:31 AM (No. 1370458)
How ‘bout Samsonite Sammy, that bald headed freak show? He/she/it is not only gender confused but may also be identifying across several different species........they/them would make a great judge!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
AltaD 1/4/2023 8:52:03 AM (No. 1370461)
FTA: Durbin said, “if there is clearly a discriminatory effort being made to keep certain people off the bench,” he would consider suspending that tradition.
He'll allow senators to have veto power over picks in their home state, unless they veto the affirmative action picks that he wants. So in other words, he will be suspending this tradition.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
5 handicap 1/4/2023 9:03:06 AM (No. 1370475)
God help us if we get more like the TREASONOUS HACK and Affirmative Action appointee, Emmett Sullivan. After what he did to General Flynn, he should be drawn and quartered...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 1/4/2023 11:56:18 AM (No. 1370675)
Why are white people so woke to hate on their own race? Silly old Dick Durbin doing the senile fool fraud Joe Biden's bidding helping to finish off America in the name of 'diversity'. I once worked and retired from a big company that tried diversity it failed with a bunch of incompetent boobs working. It's the reason I took early retirement and left.
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