#samuel feinstein

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POEMS BY COLERIDGE by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (Eragny Press, 1904) Art binding by Samuel Feinstein. Wood engravings by Lucien Pissarro.

“Christabel”, “Kubla Khan”, “Fancy in Nubibus”, and “Song from Zapolya”.

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Joan McCarter at Daily Kos:

The Senate Judiciary Committee has given the right-wing benefactors of Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito plenty of opportunity to tell their side of the story when it comes to the lavish gifts and trips the backers have supplied. But those wealthy benefactors—Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow, and Robin Arkley II—have refused to cooperate. So they’re getting subpoenaed. Sens. Dick Durbin, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse, chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, announced their intent to subpoena the three Monday, writing, “Due to Crow, Leo, and Arkley’s intransigence, the Committee is now forced to seek compulsory process to obtain the information they hold.” The vote will be held as soon as Nov. 9, the leaders told The Washington Post.

Durbin told Politico he believes that Judiciary Committee subpoenas could reveal more information about the connections between these Republican megadonors and the conservative justices. “I’m sorry to say, I think there's a lot more there,” he said. His isn’t the only committee delving into the finances and ethics of the justices. The Senate Finance Committee has an ongoing investigation into the largesse Thomas has received from multiple donors—or “friends,” as they insist on calling themselves. Durbin is confident he will have the votes of all of the Democrats on the panel to approve the subpoenas now that newly appointed California Sen. Laphonza Butler is on the panel. The long illness and death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein meant that the committee was in a stalemate with Republicans for much of this year. Democrats have the majority again, and they plan to use it.

Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow, and Robin Arkley II will finally be subpoenaed to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee led by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL).

[antigonick]

hello! hope the new year is treating you well (so far!) i decided i wanted to read more in translation this year, especially poetry, and i was wondering if u had recommendations for works translated into english (or french) from living or 20th century poets. it’s not a strict preference i just really want to expand my horizons ! anyways i love your blog it’s a much appreciated resource ❤️

Hi! Aw, that’s such a lovely idea. Honestly I mostly read English-writing authors (you must have noticed...) but I do have a few things to recommend.

• Rainer Maria Rilke’s works, most notably Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies trans. by Martyn Crucefix, but also The Book of Hours trans. by Babette Deutsch.

• Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova, trans. by Jane Kenyon, though I also like Stanley Kunitz’s take, and Marina Tsvetaeva’s Selected Poems, trans. by Elaine Feinstein.

• Odysseus Elytis’ What I Love, trans. by Olga Broumas, and my favourite The Sovereign Sun, trans. by Kimon Friar, who also translated Sodom and Gomorrah by Nikos Kazantzakis. Also, C. P. Cavafy’s The Complete Poems, trans. by David Mendelsohn or Poèmes, trans. by Marguerite Yourcenar (what??) and Constantin Dimaras.

• Federica Garcia Lorca’s A Season in Granada, trans. by Christophe Maurer, and Octavio Paz’s Collected Poems, trans. by Eliot Weinberger, others (including Denise Levertov and Elizabeth Bishop) and Octavio Paz himself. Also, Kelly Martínez-Grandal’s Zugunruhe, trans. by Margaret Randall, and of course Jorge Luis Borges’ Selected Poems, trans. by several translators (among others, W. S. Merwin and John Updike.)

• Speaking of W. S. Merwin, he translated a lot of poems, spanning centuries and languages, and he’s a beautiful translator; I’d recommend his Selected Translations. 

• Edith Södergran’s We Women, trans. by Samuel Charters, and Matilda Olkinaitė’s Matilda, trans. by Laima Vince. 

• Adonis’ Selected Poems (trans. by Khaled Mattawa) and Saadi Youssef’s Without An Alphabet, Without a Face (by Khaled Mattawa too). 

• I’m also thinking of Women of the Fertile Crescent: An anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women. You can find a lot of beautiful excerpts on @soracities blog.

• I know it’s not 20th century, but I have a soft spot for modern translations (some more interventionist than others) of classic poetry. My very favourites include Anne Carson’s If Not, Winter (obviously), Mary Barnard’s Fragments of Sappho, Renée Vivien’s Sapho, Marguerite Yourcenar’s La Couronne et La Lyre, Emily Wilson’s The Odyssey, Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf, Kenneth Rexroth’s 100 Poems from the Japanese (some of them you can find in this one—though be careful! Sometimes Rexroth claims he’s translating for shits and giggles when he’s really the writer, like in The Love Poems of Marichiko), A. K. Ramanujan’s The Interior Landscape: Classic Tamil Love Poems and the gorgeous Andal’s Autobiography of A Goddess, trans. by Priya Sarrukai Chabria and Ravi Shankar. 

• In the same vein, though they’re plays rather than poems, I’d recommend Oliver Py’s very cheeky take on Shakespeare’s Roméo et Juliette, and Anne Carson’s Bakkhai (Euripides) and An Oresteia (Aiskhylos, Sophokles, Euripides). 

Aaaaand... that’s that! Sorry, this is severely lacking in contemporary poetry, but I hope this helps—oh and happy new year to you too ♡

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Quiff,, Wolfgang Schmidt

Sincerely to: Andy Hall, Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Paul Allen, Edythe L. and Eli Broad, Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Patricia and Gustavo Phelps de Cisneros (Venezuela and Dominican Republic), Donald and Mera Rubell, Steven A. Cohen, Theo Danjuma, Maria Baibakova, Adrian Cheng, Ingvild Goetz (München), Victoria and David Beckham, Leonardo Dicaprio, Alan Lau, Camilla Barella, Ralph DeLuca, Arthur de Ganay, Ramin Salsali, Moises Cosio, Pedro Barbosa, Monique and Max Burger, Joaquin Diez-Cascon, Luciano Benetton, Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova (Russia), Robbie Antonio (Philippines), Hélène and Bernard Arnault (France), Maria and Bill Bell (United States), Peter Benedek (United States), Debra and Leon Black (United States), Christian and Karen Boros (Germany), Irma and Norman Braman (United States), Peter Brant (United States), Basma Al Sulaiman, Marc Andreessen, Laura and John Arnold, Camilla Barella, Swizz Beatz, Claudia Beck, Andrew Gruft, Robert and Renée Belfer, Lawrence Benenson, Frieder Burda (Germany), Richard Chang (United States), Kim Chang-il (Korea), David Chau and Kelly Ying (China), Pierre T.M. Chen (Taiwan), Adrian Cheng (China), Kemal Has Cingillioglu (United Kingdom), Nicolas Berggruen, Jill and Jay Bernstein, Ernesto Bertarelli, James Brett, Jim Breyer, Christian Bührle, Valentino D. Carlotti, Edouard Carmignac, Trudy and Paul Cejas, Dimitris Daskalopoulos (Greece), Zöe and Joel Dictrow (United States), George Economou (Greece), Alan Faena (Argentina), Mark Falcone and Ellen Bruss (United States), Amy and Vernon Faulconer (United States), Howard and Patricia Farber (United States), Larry and Marilyn Fields (United States), Marie Chaix, Michael and Eva Chow, Frank Cohen, Michael and Eileen Cohen, Isabel and Agustín Coppel, Anthony D'Offay, Hélène and Michel David-Weill, Antoine de Galbert, Ralph DeLuca, Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman (United States), Danielle and David Ganek (United States), Ken Griffin (United States), Agnes Gund (United States), Steven and Kathy Guttman (United States), Andrew and Christine Hall (United States), Lin Han (China), Henk and Victoria de Heus-Zomer (Holland), Grant Hill (United States), Maja Hoffmann (Switzerland), Erika Hoffmann-Koenige (Germany), Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Eric Diefenbach and JK Brown, David C. Driskell, Mandy and Cliff Einstein, Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg, Ginevra Elkann, Tim and Gina Fairfax, Dana Farouki, Michael and Susan Hort (United States), Guillaume Houzé (France), Wang Jianlin (China), Dakis Joannou (Greece), Alan Lau (China), Joseph Lau (China), Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy (United States), Agnes and Edward Lee (United Kingdom), Aaron and Barbara Levine (United States), Adam Lindemann (United States), Eugenio López (Mexico), Jho Low (China), Susan and Leonard Feinstein, Nicoletta Fiorucci, Josée and Marc Gensollen, Alan and Jenny Gibbs, Noam Gottesman, Florence and Daniel Guerlain, Paul Harris, Barbara and Axel Haubrok, Alan Howard, Fatima and Eskandar Maleki (United Kingdom), Martin Margulies (United States), Peter Marino (United States), Donald Marron (United States), David MartÍnez (United Kingdom and Mexico), Raymond J. McGuire (United States), Rodney M. Miller Sr. (United States), Simon and Catriona Mordant (Australia), Arif Naqvi (United Kingdom), Peter Norton (United States), Shi Jian, Elton John, Tomislav Kličko, Mo Koyfman, Jan Kulczyk, Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya, Pierre Lagrange, Eric and Liz Lefkofsky, Robert Lehrman, François Odermatt (Canada), Bernardo de Mello Paz (Brazil), José Olympio & Andréa Pereira (Brazil), Catherine Petitgas (United Kingdom), Victor Pinchuk (Ukraine), Alden and Janelle Pinnell (United States),Ron and Ann Pizzuti (United States), Michael Platt (Switzerland), Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli (Italy), Howard and Cindy Rachofsky (United States), Mitchell and Emily Rales (United States), Dan Loeb, George Lucas, Ninah and Michael Lynne, Lewis Manilow, Marissa Mayer, David Mirvish, Lakshmi Mittal, Valeria Napoleone, John Paulson, Amy and John Phelan, Ellen and Michael Ringier (Switzerland), David Roberts (United Kingdom), Hilary and Wilbur L. Ross Jr. (United States), Dmitry Rybolovlev (Russia), Lily Safra (Brazil),Tony Salamé (Lebanon), Patrizia Sandretto (Italy), Eric Schmidt (United States), Alison Pincus, Heather Podesta, Colette and Michel Poitevin, Thomas J. and Margot Pritzker, Bob Rennie, Craig Robins, Deedie and Rusty Rose, Stephen Ross, Alex Sainsbury, Alain Servais (Belgium), Carlos Slim (Mexico), Julia Stoschek (Germany), Budi Tek (Indonesia), Janine and J. Tomilson Hill III (United States), Trevor Traina (United States), Alice Walton (United States), Robert & Nicky Wilson (United Kingdom), Elaine Wynn (United States), Lu Xun (China), Muriel and Freddy Salem, Denise and Andrew Saul, Steven A. Schwarzman, Carole Server and Oliver Frankel, Ramin Salsali, David Shuman, Stefan Simchowitz, Elizabeth and Frederick Singer, Jay Smith and Laura Rapp, Jeffrey and Catherine Soros, Jerry Yang and Akiko Young (United States), Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei (China), Anita and Poju Zabludowicz (United Kingdom), Jochen Zeitz (South Africa), Qiao Zhibing (China), Jerry Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch, Kai van Hasselt, Francesca von Habsburg, David Walsh, Artur Walther, Derek and Christen Wilson, Michael Wilson, Owen Wilson, Zhou Chong, Doris and Donald Fisher, Ronnie and Samuel Heyman, Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Laude, Francois Pinault (France), Udo Brandhost (Köln), Harald Falckenberg (Hamburg), Anna and Joseph Froehlich (Stuttgart), Hans Grothe (Bremen), UN Knecht (Stuttgart), Arendt Oetker (Köln), Inge Rodenstock (Grünwald), Ute and Rudolf Scharpff (Stuttgart), Reiner Speck (Köln), Eleonore and Michael Stoffel (Köln), Reinhold Würth (Niedernhall), Wilhelm and Gaby Schürmann, Ivo Wessel, Heiner and Celine Bastian, Friedrich Karl Flick, Monique and Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller (Genf), Christa and Thomas Bechtler (Zürich), David Bowie (Lausanne), Ulla and Richard Dreyfus (Binningen und Gstaad), Georges Embiricos (Jouxtens and Gstaad), Friedrich Christian "Mick" Flick (Hergiswil and Gstaad), Esther Grether (Bottmingen), Donald Hess (Bolligen), Elsa and Theo Hotz (Meilen), Baroness Marion and Baron Philippe Lambert (Genf), Gabi and Werner Merzbacher (Zürich), Robert Miller (Gstaad), Philip Niarchos (St. Moritz), Jacqueline and Philippe Nordmann (Genf), Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann (Basel), George Ortiz (Vandoeuvres), Graf and Gräfin Giuseppe Panza di Biumo (Massagno), Ellen and Michael Ringier (Zürich), Andrew Loyd Webber, Steve Martin, Gerhard Lenz, Elisabeth and Rudolf Leopold.

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[theliberaltony]

via Politics – FiveThirtyEight

Tomorrow will mark the start of what could be one of the swiftest Supreme Court fights in modern history. On Saturday, just a week after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President Trump is expected to announce his nominee for her replacement: Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who is currently serving on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The nomination battle over Barrett will be bitter.

If she is confirmed — and right now, Republicans have the votes — her presence on the court will give the conservative wing a solid 6-3 majority, allowing the other conservative justices to bypass Chief Justice John Roberts. Or, put another way, Roberts will no longer be the court’s median. (He has cast several pivotal votes with the liberal justices over the years, often out of apparent concern for the court’s institutional legitimacy.)

Barrett’s appointment marks an enormous shift in the Supreme Court’s center of gravity. According to one estimate of her ideological leanings, Barrett will be the third-most conservative justice on the court, just to the left of Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, and to the right of Trump’s two previous nominees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. That’s a best-case scenario for liberals, too. Several experts told me that based on Barrett’s previous rulings as a federal judge and writings as a law professor, she could end up to the right of Alito — or even Thomas.

But even in that third-place slot, Barrett replacing Ginsburg is one of the largest swings on the modern court since 1953:

Big swings in the court’s makeup are rare

Supreme Court justice replacements by the biggest changes in ideological rank, where 1 is most liberal and 9 is most conservative

the biggest shifts on the modern supreme Court term Justice Rank Replacement rank change 1991 Marshall 1 Thomas 9 +8 1969 Warren 2 Burger 9 +7 2020 Ginsburg 2 Barrett 7 +5* 1969 Fortas 3 Blackmun 8 +5 1990 Brennan 2 Souter 5 +3 1962 Frankfurter 8 Goldberg 5 -3 1965 Goldberg 5 Fortas 2 -3

*Estimated change, based on JCS score When there were more than nine justices in a term, we dropped the justice(s) who voted in the fewest cases (e.g., O’Connor in 2005, Douglas in 1975).

Source: Martin-Quinn scores

Of course, it’s difficult to predict how any given nominee will vote once she is on the court, and in the past, several of the court’s most liberal justices were appointed by Republican presidents.1 But over the past several decades, the conservative legal movement has worked to cultivate a stable of potential justices who are consistent ideological conservatives. Barrett is in many ways the poster child for that effort.

Trump has even said that he was “saving” Barrett for Ginsburg’s seat. That’s because Barrett is a favorite of conservative Christians in particular, and is widely seen as a justice who would be willing to significantly expand states’ ability to restrict abortion access, or even vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion. She also criticized Roberts’s 2012 vote to uphold the Affordable Care Act in a recent law review article, which is significant if she’s confirmed by early November, as the Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to the law a week after the election.

“Everything about her screams ‘reliable conservative,’” said John Kastellec, a politics professor at Princeton University who studies Supreme Court nominations. “If you wanted a person who seems like a very safe bet to strike down Roe v. Wade, she’d be it.”

So it’s hard to imagine that Barrett won’t turn out to be the steadfast conservative her boosters are hoping for — and that’s a point Democrats are likely to drive home during her confirmation hearings. This line of attack isn’t without risks for Democrats, though. When Barrett was nominated to the 7th Circuit in 2017, she was criticized for her conservative ideology, but that backfired somewhat on Democrats, in part because Sen. Dianne Feinstein suggested during the hearings that Barrett, a Catholic, would be guided by “dogma” in her judicial decision-making — a comment that many religious conservatives saw as an anti-Catholic dog whistle.

But this time around, Kastellec and other experts told me, Democrats are likely to steer clear of attacking Barrett on personal traits, and instead emphasize what a hard conservative swing on the court could mean for abortion, the Affordable Care Act, gun restrictions, and a host of other liberal precedents. Barrett is young, too. At 48, she could be on the court for decades to come.

That means the confirmation hearings, which are likely to start around October 12, will probably be extremely rancorous. But it’s doubtful that would stop the GOP from steaming ahead with a vote on Barrett’s nomination after only a few weeks of deliberation. An ambitious timeline like that seems very possible, since Senate Republicans currently have a solid majority willing to vote on Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court even before Barrett was named. And several Republicans, including Trump, have indicated that they want to make sure the vote happens before Election Day so that the new justice is seated in time to resolve any election-related disputes — potentially giving Trump’s new nominee enormous power over the result of the election.

The rush to confirm a new justice is something of a gamble, electorally speaking, however. It could galvanize some religious conservatives and other Republican stalwarts who care a lot about judicial nominations, but it could also turn off other voters, since recent polls have indicated that many Americans are not enthusiastic about the idea of confirming a new Supreme Court justice so close to the election. But having a solid 6-3 conservative majority on the court is a big enough win for Republicans that they may be willing to risk a lot to achieve it.

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[M/V] 하성운 (HA SUNG WOON) - Electrified https://youtu.be/2eWGdYS-9M4 [M/V] 하성운 (HA SUNG WOON) - Electrified 하성운, 미니 6집 [Electrified : Urban Nostalgia] 발매! 타이틀곡 ‘ Electrified’ 포함 완성도 높은 총 4곡으로 감성을 채운다. 하성운의 미니 6집 [Electrified : Urban Nostalgia]으로 3개월 만에 컴백한다. 이번 앨범은 총 4편의 각각 다른 스토리를 담은 앨범으로 타이틀곡 ‘Electrified’와 함께 ‘Back to You’, ‘Fairy Tale’, ‘Love Sound’ 으로 구성됐다. 데뷔 후 지금까지 지나온 날을 회상하며 여러 공간 속 자신을 다시 한번 마주한 하성운. 그 시간을 이겨낼 수 있었던 건 그 길을 함께 걸어주며 옆을 지켜준 팬들이 있었기에 가능하였고 고마운 마음을 담아 4편의 스토리로 새롭게 탄생시켰다. 무엇보다 이 앨범은 누구나 느낄 수 있는 도시인의 복잡한 감정과 내면의 양면성, 그리고 기억을 묘사한다. 이번 미니 6집은 ‘도시의 향수’라는 테마와 함께 하성운만이 표현할 수 있는 앨범을 만나볼 수 있을 것이다. 1. Back to You Composed by Sam Klempner, Alex Stacey, Ruxley Lyrics by SIAHN, 이하진, AHIN Chorus by 강태우(Soulman) Vocal Directed by SIAHN Digital Editing by 이창훈 Recorded by 오성근, 주예찬 @Studio T Mixed by Alexis @Like1Lab Mastered by 권남우 @821 Sound Mastering ‘Back to You’는 일렉트로 팝 장르로 하성운의 감성적인 보컬과 피아노 선율이 만나 따듯한 멜로디를 완성하며 향수를 자극한다. 외롭고 고독한 도시의 한 가운데, 과거의 아름다운 추억이 가득한 때를 회상하며 그 따듯했던 시간으로 돌아가고 싶지만 그러지 못하는 괴로움을 표현하며 그때로 돌아가려 하는 마음을 표현한 곡이다. Back To You를 시작으로 [Electrified : Urban Nostalgia] 앨범 속 하성운의 내면 이야기로 리스너들을 초대한다. BTS와 TXT, Anne Marie, Palmoa Faith, James Blunt의 곡들을 만든 Sam Klempner가 작곡으로 참여했다. 2. Electrified Composed by Josh McClelland, Toby Jacob, Joseph Feinstein Lyrics by SIAHN, 이하진, AHIN Chorus by 강태우(soulman) Vocal Directed by SIAHN Digital Editing by 이창훈 Recorded by 오성근, 주예찬 @Studio T Mixed by 조씨아저씨 @JoeLab (Asst.강동호) Mastered by 권남우 @821 Sound Mastering 타이틀곡 ‘Electrified’는 중독적인 기타 리프로 시작으로 레트로한 신스사운드, 슬랩 베이스 연주와 펑크 리듬이 합쳐져 몽환적인 하성운의 보컬과 함께 특별한 무드를 만든다. 마��� 미국 LA 도시 같은 야자수와 파란 하늘, 햇빛이 가득한 도시 안으로 리스너들을 데려가, 도시의 설렘과 함께 사랑이 가득한 하성운을 발견할 수 있으며, 음악적 표현과 가사를 통해 전율의 순간을 마치 오감으로 느끼는 것 같은 짜릿함을 선사한다. 3. Fairy Tale Composed by dr.ahn, Secret Weapon, 조미쉘 (Singing Beetle), Adrian McKinnon Lyrics by SIAHN, 이하진 Chorus by Samuel Ku Vocal Directed by Samuel Ku Digital Editing by 이창훈 Recorded by 오성근, 주예찬 @Studio T Mixed by Alexis @Like1Lab Mastered by 권남우 @821 Sound Mastering 감성적인 어쿠스틱 기타 연주의 샘플링이 돋보인 R&B 발라드로, 가성과 진성을 자유롭게 넘나드는 멜로디가 하성운의 뛰어난 보컬 스킬을 보여주며 현대인이 가지고 있는 우울함(Blue)과 불면증, 말할 수 없는 답답한 마음을 대변하는 노래로 생각의 꼬리에 꼬리를 무는 자책과 후회, 그 괴로움의 순간에서 몸부림치는 혼잣말들로 새벽을 맞이하는 감성을 하성운의 보컬의 호소력이 돋보이는 곡이다. 4. Love Sound (feat. Rauas) Composed by Jonas Mengler, Vito Kovach, Hautboi Rich Lyrics by SIAHN, AHIN Chorus by 앤드(AND) Vocal Directed by SIAHN Digital Editing by 이창훈 Recorded by 오성근, 주예찬 @Studio T Mixed by Alexis @Like1Lab Mastered by 권남우 @821 Sound Mastering [Electrified : Urban Nostalgia]의 마지막 곡인 ‘Love Sound’는 레트로한 비트와 따뜻한 사운드로 하성운의 보컬이 어우러져 친숙하게 표현한 곡이다. 항상 과분했던 사랑으로 함께해준 팬을 향한 하성운의 고백을 가득 담았다. rhybeat 리빗

[real-shia-labeouf-blog]

how to live forever

Get a government position the average age of death is 70 here are the ages of federal government workers current and former, that are either above 70 or almost 70

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 85

Anthony kennedy: 81

Stephen Bryer: 79

Samuel Alto: 68

George HW Bush: 94

George W Bush: 71

Bill Clinton: 71

Hillary Clinton: 70

Jimmy Carter: 93

John Mccain: 81 

Donald Trump: 72

Elizabeth Warren: 67

Jeff Sessions: 69 

Dianne Feinstein: 83

Bernie Sanders: 76

Roy Moore: 71

[orbemnews]

February 22, 2021 Merrick Garland confirmation hearing Samuel Corum/Getty Images/FILE The ongoing investigation of the Capitol riot that left five people dead has been front and center during today’s confirmation hearing.  Attorney General nominee Judge Merrick Garland on Monday called the insurrection the “most heinous attack on the democratic processes” that he has ever seen and something he “never expected to see” in his lifetime. In an exchange with California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Garland laid out his plan for ensuring that the perpetrators of the attack are brought to justice.   “One of the very first things I will do is get a briefing on the progress of this investigation. I intend to give the career prosecutors who are working on this matter 24/7, all the resources they could possibly require to do this,” Garland said, adding, “And at the same time, I intend to make sure that we look more broadly, to look at where this is coming from, what other groups there might be that could raise the same problem in the future and that we protect the American people. And I know that the FBI director has made the same commitment.” Democrats didn’t mention Trump by name when asking about the investigation into the January 6 riots, but they touched on the question of whether the Justice Department should examine Trump’s role, which led to his impeachment. Even Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, after voting to acquit Trump in the Senate trial, suggested that the criminal justice system is the right venue to consider those allegations instead. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, encouraged Garland to look “upstream,” asking whether it was a fair question for the investigation to “not rule out investigation of funders, organizers, ringleaders or aiders and abettors who were not present in the Capitol on January 6.” “Fair question,” Garland responded. “We will pursue these leads wherever they take us.” Federal prosecutors have charged at least 250 people in connection with the Capitol riot, according to a CNN analysis of court records and DOJ announcements. The riot was an attempt to stop the Senate from counting the electoral votes that confirmed President Biden’s win. The Senate tomorrow will hold its first public hearing on the security failures that led to the deadly Capitol riot. CNN’s Paul Murphy contributed reporting to this post. Source link Orbem News #2021MerrickGarlandconfirmationhearing #confirmation #February #February22 #garland #hearing #Merrick #Politics

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LE JARDIN DES SUPPLICES by Octave Mirbeau. Art binding by Samuel Feinstein.

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February 22, 2021 Merrick Garland confirmation hearing

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February 22, 2021 Merrick Garland confirmation hearing

Samuel Corum/Getty Images/FILE

The ongoing investigation of the Capitol riot that left five people dead has been front and center during today’s confirmation hearing. 

Attorney General nominee Judge Merrick Garland on Monday called the insurrection the “most heinous attack on the democratic processes” that he has ever seen and something he “never expected to see” in his lifetime.

In an exchange with California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Garland laid out his plan for ensuring that the perpetrators of the attack are brought to justice.  

“One of the very first things I will do is get a briefing on the progress of this investigation. I intend to give the career prosecutors who are working on this matter 24/7, all the resources they could possibly require to do this,” Garland said, adding, “And at the same time, I intend to make sure that we look more broadly, to look at where this is coming from, what other groups there might be that could raise the same problem in the future and that we protect the American people. And I know that the FBI director has made the same commitment.”

Democrats didn’t mention Trump by name when asking about the investigation into the January 6 riots, but they touched on the question of whether the Justice Department should examine Trump’s role, which led to his impeachment. Even Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, after voting to acquit Trump in the Senate trial, suggested that the criminal justice system is the right venue to consider those allegations instead.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, encouraged Garland to look “upstream,” asking whether it was a fair question for the investigation to “not rule out investigation of funders, organizers, ringleaders or aiders and abettors who were not present in the Capitol on January 6.”

“Fair question,” Garland responded. “We will pursue these leads wherever they take us.”

Federal prosecutors have charged at least 250 people in connection with the Capitol riot, according to a Appradab analysis of court records and DOJ announcements. The riot was an attempt to stop the Senate from counting the electoral votes that confirmed President Biden’s win. The Senate tomorrow will hold its first public hearing on the security failures that led to the deadly Capitol riot.

Appradab’s Paul Murphy contributed reporting to this post.

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The only people talking about Barrett's religion are Republicans

Seven senators brought up Barrett's faith during the first day of her confirmation hearing — and all of them were Republicans.

Senate Republicans have claimed for weeks that Democratic attacks on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett's faith are just around the corner — but the only people at her confirmation hearing talking about Barrett's faith were Republicans.

Monday was the first day of Barrett's controversial confirmation hearing. During opening remarks, exactly seven senators mentioned her Catholic faith: Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), and Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE).

During the hearing, Grassley said that in 2017, when Barrett was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the Democrats suggested Barrett was "too faithful" or "too Catholic" to be a judge.

"One senator asked whether she considered herself an orthodox Catholic," Grassley said. "Another (Sen. Dianne Feinstein) told her, 'The dogma lives loudly within you and that is of concern.'"

According to Grassley, that's unacceptable.

"Let me remind everyone that Article I clearly prohibits religious tests for serving in public office," he thundered at his fellow senators, none of whom had mentioned religion.

Sasse, too, was full of dire warnings to the Senate and to Barrett herself.

"Your faith, or your lack of faith, are none of the government's business," he said.

Hawley decried "anti-Catholic bigotry" at work against Barrett.

"As if you can't be a devout Catholic and a loyal American," Hawley said, though no one had questioned it.

Not one Senate Democrat mentioned Barrett's religion during Monday's opening remarks.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee issued a statement after Donald Trump announced Barrett's nomination. It mentioned concerns about her stance on health care, Roe v. Wade, and LGBTQ rights, but nary a word about her Catholic faith.

In fact, prominent Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden — both Catholic themselves — have explicitly stated questions surrounding Barrett's faith are irrelevant.

Two weeks ago, Pelosi told Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union" that Senate Democrats weren't worried about Barrett's religion.

Asked by Tapper if questions about Barrett's faith should be off-limits, Pelosi agreed they should.

"It's appropriate for (Senate Democrats) to ask how faithful she would be to the constitution," Pelosi said, but added that Barrett's personal faith "doesn't matter."

She added that her primary concern was Obamacare, not Barrett's religious convictions.

"What I am concerned about is anyone that ... Trump would have appointed was there to undo the Affordable Care Act," said Pelosi. "That is why he was in such a hurry."

Biden, also a practicing Catholic, told reporters Monday that Senate Democrats shouldn't concern themselves with Barrett's religious beliefs.

"No, I don't think there should be any questions about her faith," he said, adding that nobody's faith "should be questioned."

In 2011, Biden defended Mitt Romney against accusations that his Mormon faith should disqualify him from the presidency.

"I find it preposterous that in 2011, we're debating whether or not a man is qualified or worthy of your vote based on whether or not his religion ... is a disqualifying provision," Biden said at the time.

If elected, Biden would become only the second Catholic to be president in the history of the United States, with the first being the late President John F. Kennedy.

Biden's running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) — who Hawley framed as an anti-Christian bigot in his opening remarks Monday — identifies as a Black Baptist, a Protestant Christian denomination, and attends Third Baptist Church of San Francisco.

Five other Catholics sit on the Supreme Court: Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

While only one Senate Democrat voted to confirm Kavanaugh, 59 voted to confirm Sotomayor, 22 voted to confirm Roberts, 11 voted to confirm Thomas, and four voted to confirm Alito.

Of the 22 Catholics currently in the Senate, 12 are Democrats and 10 are Republicans.

Senate Democrats have been clear that Barrett's faith is not in question. But her legal philosophy and judicial record are fair game.

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The Barrett Hearings

Like most Americans, I have been watching the race to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett as an associate justice of the Supreme Court with a strange brew of mixed emotions:

·       awe at how fast the Senate can move when properly motived (which is apparently not the case when it comes to acting decisively and meaningfully on behalf of America’s COVID-era unemployed),

·       amazement at the impressive, almost astounding, hypocrisy the Barrett nomination has elicited from both sides of the aisle as the Republicans effortlessly and unselfconsciously put forward the precise argument the Democrats put forward at the end of the Obama years in the wake of Justice Scalia’s death and the Democrats just as fervently insist on the correctitude of the position embraced at that time by the Republicans, a line of thinking that they could not possibly then have opposed more vociferously, and

·       anxiety regarding the prospect of there being on the Supreme Court a justice so openly and unabashedly committed to her conservative Christian faith. It’s that last thought that I’d like to write about this week.

The point that Judge Barrett is a deeply involved, fully committed member of her faith community has been made repeatedly in these last weeks. Like most Americans, I suppose, I was unfamiliar with the People of Praise community until the Barrett nomination brought it to the attention of the public. Nor is that at all odd that I hadn’t heard of it before—the community has, all together, about 1700 members, about a tenth of the number of students who attend Nassau Community College! But, even with such small numbers, it is an interesting community to consider from the outside: an organization that self-defines as a “charismatic Christian community” and membership in which is open to all baptized individuals regardless of their denominational affiliation. And that definition seems to mirror how things actually have worked out for the People of Praise: their website notes that among their members are professed and affiliated Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Pentecostals, as well as a selection of other kinds of denominational and nondenominational Christians. (To read more on their own website, click here.) The group has its meetings on Sunday afternoons, in fact, precisely so as to allow members to attend church services in the congregations of which they are actually members. The website is very clear that People of Praise is a community of like-minded Christians working together to attain specific goals, not a church in the conventional sense of the word.

There’s no question that this is a very conservative operation. Until recently, the highest position a woman could hold in the community was that of “handmaid.” (The name has lately been changed to “woman leader.”) Each member is assigned a spiritual advisor called that person’s head. Men have male heads and single women usually have women as their heads, but the heads of married women are invariably their husbands. You get the idea.

No one is arguing, nor (I hope) would anyone, that Judge Barrett doesn’t have the right to affiliate with whatever spiritual community or faith group that she wishes. Nor, as I perceive it, is the problem some are having with the idea of her sitting on the Supreme Court tied specifically to the fact that she is a religious woman whose sense of purpose in life is strongly tied to her religious affiliation. It’s more bizarre than that, actually: the problem at least some of the people opposing her nomination seem to be having with Judge Barrett isn’t that she is affiliated with the religious group of her choice but that she clearly take the tenets of her faith seriously and has allowed them to shape her worldview. According to this line of thinking, it’s okay for Samuel Alito or Sonia Sotomayor to be Catholics because they are perceived—rightly or wrongly—as not being especially fervent believers. (Whether that is actually true or not, I have no idea.) Nor is this a specifically Christian issue: RBG’s Jewishness was celebrated, or at least tolerated, in at least some quarters precisely because she wasn’t actually a religious person who lived her life in strict accordance with the dictates of Jewish law, just a proud Jewish woman who saw no need to dissemble regarding her Jewishness. And the same is surely true, albeit in different ways, of Elana Kagan and Stephen Breyer, both of whom are openly identified as Jewish individuals but neither of whom is perceived—again, rightly or wrongly—as being especially observant. According to this line of reasoning, then, you can be publicly identified with a specific religious tradition and serve on the Supreme Court as long as you don’t take the tenets of that faith all that seriously. But Judge Barrett clearly does take her religion seriously. And that is where she is running into all sorts of trouble.

Traditionally, this race has been run in the other direction. The Constitution says unambiguously that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust,” thereby making it unconstitutional for anyone to be barred from any public office as a result of having failed a “religious test,” which is to say, because of not holding the dogmatic beliefs connected with any specific religion. In other words, not being a religious Christian (which is certainly what the Founders had in mind when they wrote about “religion” with no other qualification) may never be considered a just reason for not permitting someone to run for public office or, if elected, to serve. But here we have the inverse of that idea: someone who is being considered for public office whom many would bar because she does hold specific religious beliefs. When Senator Diane Feinstein turned to face Judge Barrett in 2017 at the latter’s confirmation hearing for her seat on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and observed that “dogma lives loudly within you,” she did not mean it as a compliment. Nor did anyone miss the point.

I was very impressed by an essay I read this last week by Meir Soloveitchik, the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel on Central Park West in Manhattan. (Click here to read it too.) In it, the author—whose writing I’ve long admired—argues that religious affiliation has been deemed not to bar any citizen from holding public office, including judgeships, since the founding of the republic. In this regard, he cites the 1790 letter George Washington wrote to Moses Seixas, the leader of the Jewish congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, in which he wrote that in the American republic citizens of all faiths would be granted the “immunities of citizenship,” including, obviously, the right to serve as public officials. And he—Soloveitchik, not Washington—concludes that it should be considered both morally and legally wrong to disqualify a nominee to the Court a priori because of the perception that that person is possessed of even fervent religious faith.

Rabbi Soloveitchik’s analysis of Washington’s letter rings true to me. But not invalidating someone merely because of her or his religious beliefs does not invalidate the actual question of an individual’s worthiness for the Supreme Court. Indeed, the whole point of having these hearings in the Senate in the first place is precisely to determine Judge Barrett’s suitability for the job. In my opinion, however, the question of whether she should be confirmed should be a answered primarily with reference to the degree to which she is prepared to commit herself unambiguously and wholly to upholding the Constitution and is prepared openly and no less unequivocally to say that she will never allow her religious beliefs to lead her into decisions that, for all she personally may feel them justified, run counter to her own interpretation of the Constitution. In other words, her confirmation hearings should be about the likelihood that she will adjudicate the cases brought before her in accordance with the Constitution, and that she will do so even if doing so runs counter to her own Christian values. To disqualify her for consideration because she cannot commit to upholding the law even when it runs counter to her personal beliefs would be wholly legitimate in my mind. To disqualify her because she is passionate about her religious beliefs or because of the specific nature of those beliefs, would not only be wrong, but would be a denial of the basic freedom of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment.

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By Michael Dorstewitz Wednesday, 23 September 2020 10:35 AM Current | Bio | Archive

President Trump won’t announce his pick for a Supreme Court nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg until Saturday. Yet the press and congressional Democrats are already subjecting at least one of the women on his short list to hit jobs.

Think of it as a preview of coming attractions of future Senate confirmation hearings.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett is one of the most anticipated and frequently-mentioned possibilities. She’s a former Notre Dame law professor who currently sits on the Seventh federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

What Democrats and the media find most objectionable is her faith.

Barrett is a devout practicing Roman Catholic and member of a group of charismatic Christians called People of Praise.

Barrett was introduced to how vicious Washington, D.C. politics can be when Senate Democrats attacked her faith during her 2017 confirmation hearings.

Ranking Judiciary Committee member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., brusquely told her, "The dogma lives loudly within you, and that's of concern."

If Barrett was taken aback, she didn’t let on. She responded, "If you're asking whether I take my Catholic faith seriously, I do, though I would stress that my personal church affiliation or my religious belief would not bear on the discharge of my duties as a judge."

Barrett is also criticized for her devotion to family.

She and her husband are raising seven children — five of their own and two they adopted from Haiti. Because of her two devotions to faith and family, Newsweek ran a hit piece on her headlined, "How Amy Coney Barrett's People of Praise group inspired 'The Handmaid's Tale.'"

Hulu's "The Handmaid’s Tale" is a dark futuristic TV series about a subjugated woman forced to live as a courtesan under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

Newsweek was later called out on the comparison, and the publication quickly added a "correction" at the end, but kept its original headline up on Twitter.

That prompted National Republican Senatorial Committee senior advisor Matt Whitlock to observe, "Your correction refutes the ENTIRE article how have you not just retracted the entire thing?"

Referring to the Newsweek story, Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro tweeted, "This piece is why, on a political level, Trump should nominate Coney Barrett. The mind-loss Democrats will assuredly manifest against a brilliant and charming Catholic mother of seven will be good for Republicans."

The truth, of course, is that Barrett should be applauded for balancing her faith and family with a demanding career — first in private practice at a Washington, D.C. law firm, later as a law professor, and finally as a federal appeals court judge.

After graduating from Notre Dame Law School, she clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Since her appointment to the federal Court of Appeals, she’s heard and decided a wide range of cases, including Title IX, Second and Fourth Amendment and immigration disputes.

Addressing an audience at Hillsdale College, Barrett described the job of a judge.

"A judge is obligated to apply the law as it is and not as she wishes it would be," Barrett said. "She is obliged to follow the law even when her personal preferences cut the other way."

However, there was some question whether the Senate Judiciary Committee would even take up Trump’s Supreme Court nominee — whether Barrett or one of the other four women on his short list. Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., didn’t disappoint.

He released a letter indicating that he’d had it with the two-tiered system for judicial confirmations — one for Democratic appointees and another for those by Republicans.

"After the treatment of Justice Kavanaugh I now have a different view of the judicial-confirmation process," he wrote. "Compare the treatment of Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh to that of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, and it’s clear that there is already one set of rules for a Republican president and one set of rules for a Democrat president."

He concluded, "I therefore think it is important that we proceed expeditiously to process any nomination made by President Trump to fill this vacancy."

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is another woman of faith and working mom.

She believed this made Barrett eminently qualified for the high court.

"President @realDonaldTrump hasn’t even made his pick yet and the liberal mob is already viciously attacking Judge Amy Coney Barrett for being a Christian and a working mom of seven kids,” Sanders tweeted. "American women should be paying close attention to what Democrats really think of us."

If only to drive Democrats crazy, Trump should nominate Barrett to the Supreme Court.

And when he does, he should introduce her as "a devout Catholic, just like my honorable opponent former Vice President Joe Biden, and my good friend House Speaker Nancy Pelosi."

Michael Dorstewitz is a retired lawyer and has been a frequent contributor to BizPac Review and Liberty Unyielding. He is also a former U.S. Merchant Marine officer and an enthusiastic Second Amendment supporter, who can often be found honing his skills at the range. Read Michael Dorstewitz'

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