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Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"6"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1897138817337413741"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-07T02:18:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-07T02:18:00.266-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Florida"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Supreme Court"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Opposing Sexual Abuse of Children is the New Hate"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"After four days spent falsely accusing Justice Kavanaugh of sexual assault in high school, the Senate finally encountered a Supreme Court nominee with a horrifying sexual abuse record.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd we weren’t allowed to talk about it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgvZFRv1E4huIrPoeeCHmaiNosAqQSokI_Vf2osOIr0D0E0ulrztP-yocmhkLTEb5P-2kjpX1l1kz8zVzkx6WMLvawHA1uPSm3Whc9uG-qFLRat4ZGhp8v8spg6RzkiWUt-uhhsStHud3Y1KG3UJG8RaLFVNiqkUkwKNexk4UFh3JKZXM_U0cA\/s677\/ketani.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"461\" data-original-width=\"677\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgvZFRv1E4huIrPoeeCHmaiNosAqQSokI_Vf2osOIr0D0E0ulrztP-yocmhkLTEb5P-2kjpX1l1kz8zVzkx6WMLvawHA1uPSm3Whc9uG-qFLRat4ZGhp8v8spg6RzkiWUt-uhhsStHud3Y1KG3UJG8RaLFVNiqkUkwKNexk4UFh3JKZXM_U0cA\/s320\/ketani.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThere is no way to know how many children had their lives ruined and their innocence stolen because Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson insisted on going easy on child pornography traffickers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Republicans tried to bring up Jackson’s horrifying actions, the media shouted them down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Los Angeles Times called Republicans asking Jackson basic questions about why Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson refused to lock up pedophiles \"sickening\", Vanity Fair called it \"vile\", and Vox denounced it as \"grotesque\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDo you know what’s truly \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/02\/ketanyi-brown-jackson-even-chose-leniency-in-baby-sex-cases\/\"\u003Esickening, vile and grotesque\u003C\/a\u003E?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen sentencing one pedophile, Jackson claimed that his crimes which included possession of a video of a  “pre-pubescent boy being penetrated anally and orally”, were not \"particularly egregious\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E227 leftists were arrested when they staged an insurrection during the Kavanaugh hearings because his high school yearbook contained a supposed coded reference to making out with a high school girl. The media “annotated” the yearbook of a man in his fifties speculating that “Orioles vs. Red Sox — Who Won, Anyway?” could be \"jokes about being blackout drunk.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut we're not allowed to ask a judge who wants the top job in the country why she sentenced a violent child rapist to only 12 months with time served after he had lied about his whereabouts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead of being locked up for a few years, he was out and committed another sexual assault, at which point Jackson once again went easy on him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat didn’t happen in 1982,\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/03\/rapist-gets-lax-sentence-from-jackson-then-nabbed-for-sex-assault\/\"\u003E but in 2017\u003C\/a\u003E. A year before the Kavanaugh hearings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if we talk about any of this, it’s “bigotry” and “hate”. Opposing the sexual abuse of children is the new hate. And every defender of sexually abusing children has jumped into the cause.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Oscars, whose leading lights are responsible for more sexual assaults than an entire prison full of rapists, used their forum to attack Florida’s effort to protect children from sexual grooming in schools with the “Parental Rights Bill” which they and their media smear as, “Don’t Say Gay”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left has embraced pedophilia in its Supreme Court nomination and in its opposition to parental rights. It rants that only haters would think that there’s anything wrong with going easy on pedophiles and that unrelated adults talking to kindergarteners about sex is a civil right and anyone who opposes it is a horrible bigot. No one who isn’t a pedophile or a Jackson agrees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven 52% to 36% of Florida Democrats support banning teachers from pushing sex on children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENationally, the vast majority of Republicans, Independents, Democrats, and human beings agree with the words of the bill, “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through third grade.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney, the former employer of Harvey Weinstein and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/disneys-child-predator-problem\"\u003Edozens of sex offenders\u003C\/a\u003E, disagrees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho gets to decide? As New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait put it, \"DeSantis's Threats to Disney Is What Post-Trump Authoritarianism Looks Like\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAuthoritarianism has now come to mean letting parents and voters, rather than a major corporation, decide whether anyone who manages to obtain a teaching license should be pushing creepy sexual agendas on school children as opposed to the public-private pedophilia partnership that is fueling the hate campaign against parental rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA decade ago, the Sun Sentinel noted that\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/fl-xpm-2010-04-25-fl-teacher-misconduct-profiles-20100416-story.html\"\u003E over 175 Florida teachers\u003C\/a\u003E had their teaching licenses pulled for sexual misconduct.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn elementary school teacher in Naples admitted to sexually abusing \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/education\/2022\/03\/05\/florida-teacher-hector-manley-abuse-parkside-elementary-school-unreported\/6894796001\/?gnt-cfr=1\"\u003Eat least 19 children\u003C\/a\u003E. Despite a little girl reporting, “Mr. Manley touches people’s private parts”, the educational system covered up for him and kept him on the job. An investigation published this year noted that \"Manley began molesting children his first day on the job, and there wasn’t a single month during his employment at Parkside when he wasn’t abusing students.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few weeks ago a Brevard County middle school teacher was busted by the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) for soliciting nude photos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho thinks it’s a good idea to authorize these types of people to talk to six years old about sex?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBesides Disney, Ketanji Brown Jackson and every major celebrity with an Instagram account.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media deems talking about this to be homophobic, transphobic, and, when discussing Jackson’s hands off policy on pedophiles, racist. Protecting children is hateful. Standing up for their innocence is bigoted. Opposing pedophilia is almost certainly some sort of hate crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJackson could not answer what a woman is, because she’s not a biologist. Nor could she answer at what age a child deserves \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/the-moral-poverty-of-identity-politics.html\"\u003Ethe right to live\u003C\/a\u003E. After generations of embracing the murder of babies as the highest form of feminism, leftists now insist that the only real women are men, and that any babies they don’t manage to kill in the womb should be subjected to sexual grooming, puberty blockers, and any other monstrous tools for destroying their future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnlike Jackson’s decision to hand a mandatory-minimum sentence to a monster who \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/02\/ketanyi-brown-jackson-even-chose-leniency-in-baby-sex-cases\/\"\u003Euploaded a video \u003C\/a\u003Eof a “a prepubescent girl\" being sexually assaulted which is instead seen as “loving”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the Left actually cared about women and children, there would be 227 protesters arrested to condemn the very thought of Jackson tainting the Supreme Court with her sickening presence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead we’re lectured that Jackson’s nomination is “historic” because while there have been black men on the bench and women of all shades, she checks a box that has not yet been checked. Beyond the box of ‘pedophile enabler’ which was not born into, but honestly earned.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd we’re told that pushing sex on kindergarteners is also a wonderful form of love for them as if that weren’t the argument that every pedophile before them had made since time immemorial.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow the Left wants pedophilia in the curriculum and on the Supreme Court as an “act of love”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELove means fighting for the right to groom six year olds and to free child molesters. Hate has come to mean fighting for women and children, whether for their right to privacy and modesty, or to be free of the sexual coercion and abuse that has become the Left’s signature form of love.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeftists chorus that anyone who opposes this leftist love is practicing hate. But behind this love is the worst kind of hate. And behind what the Left falsely condemns as hate is real love.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/1897138817337413741\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/opposing-sexual-abuse-of-children-is.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1897138817337413741"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1897138817337413741"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/opposing-sexual-abuse-of-children-is.html","title":"Opposing Sexual Abuse of Children is the New Hate"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgvZFRv1E4huIrPoeeCHmaiNosAqQSokI_Vf2osOIr0D0E0ulrztP-yocmhkLTEb5P-2kjpX1l1kz8zVzkx6WMLvawHA1uPSm3Whc9uG-qFLRat4ZGhp8v8spg6RzkiWUt-uhhsStHud3Y1KG3UJG8RaLFVNiqkUkwKNexk4UFh3JKZXM_U0cA\/s72-c\/ketani.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2509957428011948828"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-03T04:08:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-03T04:08:00.347-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Supreme Court"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Lynching of Justice Clarence Thomas"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EEven as Justice Clarence Thomas was hospitalized, a leftist lynch mob rallied on social media calling for his impeachment or death. They weren’t especially picky about which one it would be.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiBHTL0iG6Aogmx0r12hGUTl63viIcpFAvxQDq-4sBAJaY4nAKH-Rr3I6ozW8K1bI29vS124QI89NGqH3e4vTaI90JP7lbxsZfsq7M9Bh3CduniLi9ioA0IPPMIehnEGMVR8supzWHZGCXk3e3gMuqJhoHBctv0WNaRx1WrM_Pix1jsiIZ6HbI\/s783\/image_2022-04-01_175036.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"459\" data-original-width=\"783\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiBHTL0iG6Aogmx0r12hGUTl63viIcpFAvxQDq-4sBAJaY4nAKH-Rr3I6ozW8K1bI29vS124QI89NGqH3e4vTaI90JP7lbxsZfsq7M9Bh3CduniLi9ioA0IPPMIehnEGMVR8supzWHZGCXk3e3gMuqJhoHBctv0WNaRx1WrM_Pix1jsiIZ6HbI\/s320\/image_2022-04-01_175036.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe same radical faction championing Biden’s selection of a black woman for the Supreme Court as a groundbreaking step forward and berating Republicans for refusing to support her were simultaneously demanding that the only sitting black justice on the court step down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe calls for Thomas’ death are based on pure unadulterated hatred. And so are the calls for his impeachment. None of them have even the faintest basis in anything resembling the law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Women's March called for the impeachment of Justice Thomas because his wife, Ginni, had advocated against election fraud. Or as the racist leftist hate group put it, \"The revelations that Ginni Thomas advocated for the overthrow of our democracy are disqualifying — not just for her as a human being of any decency, but for her husband.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA “human being of any decency” wouldn’t be going after a judge by targeting his wife.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only possible reason for disqualifying Thomas would be the presumption that men are obligated to control their wives. And prevent them from expressing political views in public.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs this the exciting new feminist position that the Women’s March would like to debut?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWould any of the great minds at the Women’s March like to contemplate the legal implications of creating a male guardianship for women of the kind that might have existed in the 18th century?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJustice Breyer’s wife is a member of the English nobility, it doesn’t mean he answers to the Queen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJudges whose spouses have an “interest” in a case are obligated to recuse themselves from it. But having political views about a national issue is not the same thing as having an “interest” in it. I doubt there’s a single judicial spouse who didn’t have an opinion on the 2020 election. And many of them may have signed petitions, posted comments, or otherwise urged an outcome.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr participated in the Women’s March attacking the legitimacy of the 2016 presidential election.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s political activism, it’s not an “interest”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Times and the New Yorker cited a federal law stating that judges must rescue themselves if their spouses have “an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding.” A point of view is not an interest. If it were, there could be no married judges.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENevertheless law professor Lawrence Tribe tweeted, “That clearly applied here.” How?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“By writing to Meadows, who was chief of staff and active in the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement, she joined the team resisting the results of the election,” Stephen Gillers, an NYU prof quoted by the New York Times, convolutedly \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/25\/us\/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-recusal.html\"\u003Eargued\u003C\/a\u003E. “She made herself part of the team and so she has an interest in the decisions of the court that could affect Trump’s goal of reversing the results.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMillions of Americans have phoned, sent letters and emails to members of Congress advocating particular policies. Did they all join the “team” of every single public official whom they contacted? Should any judges they’re married to have to recuse themselves from those cases?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHad Ginni Thomas been formally employed by the Trump team, it would be another story. Instead she was an activist urging members of the team to do everything they possibly could.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt doesn’t make her a member of the team.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf that weren’t absurd enough, both media outlets have cited a law stating that “any justice, judge or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” Is there any federal judge, appointed as part of a partisan process, whose impartiality can’t be reasonably questioned in partisan cases?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs usual the Left has invented a standard that it doesn’t intend to apply in any other cases. Certainly not in any cases where it would inhibit its stable of unconstitutional judicial activists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“What did Justice Clarence Thomas know, and when did he know it?” a New York Times op-ed demanded. The author, Jesse Wegman, a Times editor, presumably knows the political views of his wife, Kyra, and also, presumably, he writes his own views in his columns. Not hers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis isn’t a complicated concept for any functional adult.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESupreme Court justices are aware of the storm of controversy over the cases in front of them. They’re expected to follow the law and rule accordingly without taking into account the views of family members, friends, and New York Times editors. That’s what they do for a living.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThomas married Ginni in 1987. By then he was nearly 40 years old and had worked as a lawyer, a prosecutor, and as a civil rights official in the Reagan administration. He had developed his own point of view on the world. A unique one as testified by his rulings over the years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeftists and their media would like us to believe that the only reason Justice Thomas believes anything or rules on anything is because his white wife tells him to do it. That’s stupidly racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven those who violently hate Thomas ought to be able to admit that he has a developed judicial philosophy and that his rulings reflect that unique worldview. The idea that a man who has defied expectations throughout his life, who has persevered despite being repeatedly hit with every racial slur in the book, is just following his wife’s lead is dumb beyond belief.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet this is the argument that the lynch mob targeting Justice Thomas is going with.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter all the fury over his wife’s activism, what does this amount to in Justice Thomas’ rulings? Where is the evidence of any conflict of interest or any violation of the law? It doesn’t exist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Times noted that \"Justices Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr.\" responded to the Supreme Court rejecting an election lawsuit by Texas by \"issuing a brief statement suggesting the majority had acted too soon in shutting the case down.\" Actually Alito wrote the dissent, with Thomas joining him, on procedural grounds. At the time the dissent was issued, the media and its legal experts argued that it was not a ruling on the election, but on jurisdictional standing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe paper also misleadingly notes that, \"Justice Thomas addressed election fraud in a dissent from the Supreme Court’s decision to turn away a challenge to Pennsylvania’s voting procedures.\" The Supreme Court had previously deadlocked several times over the issue with previous dissents by Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas, and the Thomas dissent highlighted by the paper had focused on the importance of providing \"clear rules for future elections.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media and its legal experts, shoddy as they may be, know all this perfectly well. They know that the paper is deliberately misrepresenting these cases in order to single out Thomas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that there’s no basis for doing so.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThomas wrote as one of the court’s two leading conservatives, along with Alito, and there was nothing unique in his dissents that deviated from his judicial philosophy. Using his wife to attack him is the despicable tactic of a ruthless totalitarian movement with no shred of decency.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHaving run out of any credible legal arguments, the lynch mob once again borrows the familiar logic of Russiagate to argue that their smear campaign proves that Thomas must recuse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Judging by the nature of the text messages and the uproar over them, that provision alone is enough to require Justice Thomas’s recusal, legal experts said,” the New York Times argued.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince the New York Times and its media partners are the source of the “uproar”, conservative judges would have to recuse every time lefties launch a vocal smear campaign against them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s using the media as a heckler’s veto to bar conservative judges from cases.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that’s what this is really about.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2509957428011948828\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/the-lynching-of-justice-clarence-thomas.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2509957428011948828"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2509957428011948828"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/the-lynching-of-justice-clarence-thomas.html","title":"The Lynching of Justice Clarence Thomas"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiBHTL0iG6Aogmx0r12hGUTl63viIcpFAvxQDq-4sBAJaY4nAKH-Rr3I6ozW8K1bI29vS124QI89NGqH3e4vTaI90JP7lbxsZfsq7M9Bh3CduniLi9ioA0IPPMIehnEGMVR8supzWHZGCXk3e3gMuqJhoHBctv0WNaRx1WrM_Pix1jsiIZ6HbI\/s72-c\/image_2022-04-01_175036.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7046721418578409495"},"published":{"$t":"2022-03-08T04:30:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-03-08T04:30:00.289-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Supreme Court"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden’s Supreme Court Pick is a Racist Attack on the Constitution"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EWhen Biden announced that he would only consider black women for the Supreme Court, the vast majority of Americans rejected racial gatekeeping for the highest court in the land.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh4XOxgIF9_RerZu5Bx04zMV-S4yKQF9AtqwUHIWAnZBsNVm1EXo8FV2iJHeAtvZ0VLK-Sgly3guAj2SYkEgjW1xA7_VZlfZnzLsGshX_ny6C_KwVbABCoP8mb5BhTQrCppbtnIuga-jX3SZsivQ-C7WUqkN-_HMGwIxIGA5JyEMz1pmLk2ER4=s677\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"461\" data-original-width=\"677\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh4XOxgIF9_RerZu5Bx04zMV-S4yKQF9AtqwUHIWAnZBsNVm1EXo8FV2iJHeAtvZ0VLK-Sgly3guAj2SYkEgjW1xA7_VZlfZnzLsGshX_ny6C_KwVbABCoP8mb5BhTQrCppbtnIuga-jX3SZsivQ-C7WUqkN-_HMGwIxIGA5JyEMz1pmLk2ER4=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E76% of Americans wanted him to consider all candidates regardless of their race and gender. Less than a quarter of the country wanted Biden to limit the nomination by race and gender. Even 54% of Democrats rejected Biden’s identity politics quotas and only 28% of non-whites were on board with his pledge to reject all other potential nominees based solely on their skin color.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter Biden’s announcement that he had chosen Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee, the majority of Americans continue to reject Biden’s racial determinism for the Supreme Court.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen asked to respond to a leading question by a Washington Post\/ABC News poll as to whether, “having a black woman as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court would be a good thing for the country, a bad thing for the country, or would make no difference?”, the majority, or 48%, correctly concluded that it would make no difference. 45%, a number largely made up of the 78% of Democrats, insisted that somehow Jackson’s race would transform the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe majority of Americans know better.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe boring truth about Ketanji Brown Jackson is that, like so many other judges, she’s just another Harvard grad, born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and raised by a prominent attorney. Much like Hollywood trying to make the same old movies and shows exciting by recasting the characters as black, Jackson is the same old judicial activist in a new color.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden, who had twice blocked and filibustered the nomination of Judge Janice Rogers, a well-qualified black female judge nominated by the Bush administration, over her pro-Constitution views, and his political and media allies who are even now waging a concerted war against Justice Clarence Thomas, the only currently serving black justice whose nomination they had tried to block, are cynically tokenizing Jackson’s nomination as a shining new beacon of racial progress. As if having a black female justice will accomplish something historic that having multiple black male justices and female justices of other races had failed to achieve.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe do know why Biden picked Jackson and it wasn’t because of her gender or race. While Biden will no doubt enjoy occasionally leaning in to sniff her hair as he shows her around, the real litmus test wasn’t to be found in her skin color or in an examination of her chromosomes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden picked Jackson for the same reason that he fought to keep Judge Janice Rogers off the Court of Appeals which would potentially have put her on a pathway to the Supreme Court.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs legal scholar Jonathan Turley \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/595967-wink-and-a-nod-nomination-who-really-is-ketanji-brown-jackson?rl=1\"\u003Enotes\u003C\/a\u003E, leftists wanted a nominee “willing to expand the meaning of the Constitution without constitutional amendments”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe choice had come down to Judge J. Michelle Childs, who had the backing of not only Democrats, but some Republicans, and of Senator Manchin, because she is a moderate, and Ketanji Brown Jackson who has a history of constitutional violations and abusive power grabs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemand Justice, the radical leftist Soros group, which had boasted of “bullying” Justice Breyer off the bench, had ordered Biden to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson instead of Childs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden met with both Childs and Jackson and what he truly wanted to know was whether they would be loyal to the Constitution, or to him, and to the radical leftists standing behind him who want to transform America by perverting the Constitution into a mandate for unlimited power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Turley again \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/595967-wink-and-a-nod-nomination-who-really-is-ketanji-brown-jackson?rl=1\"\u003Enotes\u003C\/a\u003E, “Biden stressed that his nominee must follow a ‘living constitution’ approach, including a broad view of ‘unenumerated rights.’ When asked if she supported such an approach, Childs answered \"no.\" Jackson, in contrast, has been far more obscure and conflicted in her response.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen it comes to Supreme Court nominees, anything other than a “no” is really a “yes”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWill a Justice Jackson change the Supreme Court and the country? Yes, but not because of her race. Race is the least interesting thing about Jackson and yet it’s what we will hear the most about because it is a convenient distraction from her radical and secretive judicial philosophy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith little in the way of written materials and responses to big picture constitutional questions that have her playing dumb, Jackson is an anti-constitutional trojan horse flying the false flag of identity politics. As if nominating a Harvard grad who happens to be a black woman, as opposed to a white man, is some sort of great step forward for the wretched of the earth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden is not using his court nomination, which his Soros backers at Demand Justice secured by, in their own words, “bullying” a liberal Jewish justice off the Supreme Court, to uphold identity politics. He has militantly opposed at least one black female justice, and was able to choose between two black female judges, nominating the one that fits a radical leftist agenda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden clearly doesn’t believe his own rhetoric about the Supreme Court being in dire need of a black female judge. The only ones dumb enough to believe it are MSNBC viewers who gobble up the black nationalist ravings of Ibram X. Kendi and Ta-Nehisi Coates and cheer Black Lives Matter mobs as they burn down cities every time a drug dealer gets rightfully shot by police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut identity politics covers up a multitude of sins. Just ask Black Lives Matter, which was able to operate a $60 million fund on terms that would have seen a neighborhood bodega shut down in minutes. Even white Antifa rioters were able to terrorize Portland for a year because they claimed to be attacking police officers and federal officials in the name of racial justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden has mastered the art of deflecting criticism of his corruption and incompetence by using black women as human shields. It began with Kamala Harris, who was grossly unready to serve in the White House, but whose nomination made a ticket headed by an old white hack seem transformational and whose continued presence makes it all but impossible to remove or bypass Biden from an office that he is equally unfit to occupy on ethical and moral grounds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only reason Biden picked Jackson is because he believes that she will be loyal to him, not to the Constitution and to her oath of office. He also expects to sweep away any objections to her radicalism by having his media accuse critics of racism and sexism. And once Jackson taints the Supreme Court with her corrupt presence on the bench, any opposition to her views by the rest of that body, including by Justice Thomas, will also be denounced as sexist racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr occasionally racist sexism, just to shake things up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch like Justice Sotomayor, the original “Wise Latina”, whose gender and Southern European ancestry somehow endowed her with a wisdom that transcended her poor legal reasoning, Jackson’s “lived experience” will be used to claim that she possesses insights on account of the combination of her gender and race that we ought to submit to in place of the actual law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe good news is that Americans aren’t buying it. Polls show that the people are rejecting the racial determinism that is being used to trade away our rights for racial privileges. As the Supreme Court prepares to consider the unconstitutional racial discrimination of affirmative action, most Americans have once again come to believe in a color-blind legal system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans know that what really matters isn’t gender or race, it’s equal rights under the law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s selection process and his nomination have been an insult to the very idea of equal rights. Even if he installs his insult on the Supreme Court, it will never change the Constitution.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7046721418578409495\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/bidens-supreme-court-pick-is-racist.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7046721418578409495"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7046721418578409495"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/bidens-supreme-court-pick-is-racist.html","title":"Biden’s Supreme Court Pick is a Racist Attack on the Constitution"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh4XOxgIF9_RerZu5Bx04zMV-S4yKQF9AtqwUHIWAnZBsNVm1EXo8FV2iJHeAtvZ0VLK-Sgly3guAj2SYkEgjW1xA7_VZlfZnzLsGshX_ny6C_KwVbABCoP8mb5BhTQrCppbtnIuga-jX3SZsivQ-C7WUqkN-_HMGwIxIGA5JyEMz1pmLk2ER4=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5310541676863551834"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-17T20:35:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-17T20:35:02.841-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Supreme Court"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden's Black and Left Base Go To War Over Supreme Court Seat"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAs Governor Rod Blagojevich once said of Obama's Senate seat, “It's a f____ valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Supreme Court seat is even more valuable and with the Senate stalemated, the two big factions of the Democrat base are furiously fighting over who gets to ‘Blagojevich’ it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgIk1DZJp4JxiqFTbtBUNOYS7X753x4S1cZtU0H5kyBKueC4AzPegDneA1J9PXI3xdlwTFAaPKJQdnvRt0j9VuxkZjrSXzDfkmch7mVKujanAoVeaOCY5bjvYf_dJsukS5_s0NCSuFEvQs89yMkGY6L3MJ_za91HUVKchvurTTXjPhchiWykYM=s576\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"387\" data-original-width=\"576\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgIk1DZJp4JxiqFTbtBUNOYS7X753x4S1cZtU0H5kyBKueC4AzPegDneA1J9PXI3xdlwTFAaPKJQdnvRt0j9VuxkZjrSXzDfkmch7mVKujanAoVeaOCY5bjvYf_dJsukS5_s0NCSuFEvQs89yMkGY6L3MJ_za91HUVKchvurTTXjPhchiWykYM=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe superannuated struggle over the seat of Justice Stephen Breyer, who chose to retire at the age of 83, pits Rep. Jim Clyburn, 81, against Senator Bernie Sanders, 80. Both are demanding that Joe Biden, 79, let them ‘Blagojevich’ the “f____ valuable” Supreme Court seat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(None of them however are planning to follow Breyer’s example and retire at 83 with Bernie Sanders set to run again in 2024 even though he’ll be 83, Clyburn \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/10\/jim-clyburn-2022-493285\"\u003Edeclaring\u003C\/a\u003E, “Hell, yes”, when asked if he intends to run again this year for a term that will take him to 83, and Joe Biden insisting that he will run for reelection for a second term that would take him to the age of 86.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoth Clyburn and Sanders have a claim to the contract on Joe Biden’s soul.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EClyburn turned out the black vote for Biden, dragging him through the South, and enabling him to hold off Bernie and Elizabeth Warren. Biden and Bernie then agreed to a unity pledge that united the Democrats behind a candidate to whom the usual response was, “Huh, him, why?”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn politics, nothing is free. Biden mortgaged his presidency to Clyburn, Warren, and Sanders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut there’s only one Supreme Court seat available. And only one fundament, no matter how diverse, can be planted on the wooden bench. The question is whose fundament will it be?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden got the pretense of even pretending to pick the best candidate out of the way when he vowed that the only candidates he would consider were black women. And not Judge Janice Rogers Brown whose nomination to the Court of Appeals he had blocked two decades ago.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the question is which black woman?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg3pE8_Z0YJvEdWV6cQLIxYJ0wWQwVFvFnj_iNPSoxmmz_qRj1qtVoiu4KRdu9FQfG-U2Xadgn4W8DFFmPMNzvMvJ7SLDw4uGqiMaAH1885C6O1NGHcXAXVXS33j1XEAzJIzL0_3m2OHbt9O2EKlL8NVO7O1Ou4xt00gM3mjhy4Fr5xtCRoWw4=s725\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"540\" data-original-width=\"725\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg3pE8_Z0YJvEdWV6cQLIxYJ0wWQwVFvFnj_iNPSoxmmz_qRj1qtVoiu4KRdu9FQfG-U2Xadgn4W8DFFmPMNzvMvJ7SLDw4uGqiMaAH1885C6O1NGHcXAXVXS33j1XEAzJIzL0_3m2OHbt9O2EKlL8NVO7O1Ou4xt00gM3mjhy4Fr5xtCRoWw4=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBiden’s promise wasn’t some noble call to remedy a historical injustice, but a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/stephen-breyer-joe-biden-us-supreme-court-campaign-2016-south-carolina-3a36206929862d7c06293a5724eff2fd\"\u003Epitch to black voters\u003C\/a\u003E in South Carolina that was made at the urging of local political kingmaker Clyburn. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Biden first made ins infamous “promise” at the South Carolina Democrat debate, he told \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOprah pal Gayle King, \"I'm looking forward to making sure there's a black woman on the Supreme Court\" and then responding to audience noise with, \"Not a joke -- not a joke.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a joke, but like everything involving a crooked senile hack being given free access to the White House, the national treasury and foreign policy, it’s ultimately not very funny.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden's promise worked though. He won nearly half the vote in South Carolina leaving Bernie Sanders a distant second. The other candidates hovered around the single digit mark. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EClyburn delivered South Carolina, the South and the party’s nomination. He wants to be paid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe White House is full of Clyburn’s people, but a Supreme Court seat is still a “f____ valuable thing”. Biden promised it to Clyburn who picked his own nominee and is working the room.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the lefties are pushing their gals through the media, Clyburn took Judge Michelle Childs to meet members of the Senate and recruited Senate Republicans, including Senator Lindsey Graham, to promise to support her. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders got into a snit and refused to meet her which allows Clyburn to imply that they’re a bunch of racists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGive the third-highest ranking House Dem credit, he knows how to hustle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChilds is a typical non-ideological product of Congressional Black Caucus patronage. She wouldn’t make a great justice, but neither does she go to bed every night plotting to destroy America. You can expect bad decisions from her, but not particularly creative ones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocialists would like someone dedicated to completely dismantling the country and supporting every insane scheme in the book. And they’ve got a shortlist of horrifying candidates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemand Justice had sent around trucks blaring, “Breyer, retire. It’s time for a Black woman Supreme Court justice. There’s no time to waste.\" Once word of Breyer’s resignation leaked , the leftist group took credit for the liberal justice having been \"shamed\" by the \"gushing fire hydrant of bullying tweets\". And the Soros-backed group has its own “shortlist” of justices.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soros shortlist from hell includes antisemitic DOJ appointee Kristen Clarke, Soros Philly DA Larry Krasner, and Dale Ho, a Biden nominee, who boasted of being a \"wild-eyed sort of leftist\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile none of these people are getting nominated, two of them aren’t even black women, the Demand Justice shortlist also includes Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Leondra Kruger who top the leftist shortlist and whom the media has been promoting non-stop for the Supreme Court.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiojvC_3pdTp65aD4q_UeOws7onVPILYq4tzvmMrbKpwUnHp7USW_2CWTMOOWQWeeoPT5sW4CHKUVkCcVW81dXyEBBrkPOFLwp2oCUabMAZ-6D-3kZgSoXpoH67NsMXHJGDc33pyG0EOMLhiYW8CGD8HcIQkhEW-ctUZWtLE1beC4IO1SRBCmk=s740\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"529\" data-original-width=\"740\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiojvC_3pdTp65aD4q_UeOws7onVPILYq4tzvmMrbKpwUnHp7USW_2CWTMOOWQWeeoPT5sW4CHKUVkCcVW81dXyEBBrkPOFLwp2oCUabMAZ-6D-3kZgSoXpoH67NsMXHJGDc33pyG0EOMLhiYW8CGD8HcIQkhEW-ctUZWtLE1beC4IO1SRBCmk=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ELeondra Kruger, the daughter of a Jewish doctor and a Jamaican immigrant, is another Kamala Harris who slithered her way up California's political ladder. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKruger had never even been a judge until Governor Jerry Brown put her on the Supreme Court before she turned 40 because she had the right political credentials..\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow the media is working hard to put her on the Supreme Court. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt only 45 years old, Kruger would have a long tenure in which to reshape the court.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut a half-Jewish half-Jamaican product of the California leftist machine is not what Clyburn had in mind when he got Biden to promise to put a black woman on the Supreme Court.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the Left and the media keep touting Kruger, Clyburn has pushed Childs. The Left, unwilling to just say that its real objection to Childs is that she’s not the product of their political network and sworn to their radical agenda, has accused her of working for “corporations”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s a hilarious charge considering that Demand Justice is backed by Soros, Swiss medical tech billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, and other wealthy businessmen. Without corporations to fund them, the American Left would be stuck handing out badly mimeographed pamphlets on college campuses inviting people to seminars on Marxism. But they can’t quite call Clyburn a racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd accusing their enemies of being corporate stooges is the Left’s only fallback position.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe battle over the Supreme Court seat has unraveled the uneasy alliance between the black political machine and white leftist wings of the Democrats. Most things could be shared, but there’s no way to share a Supreme Court seat and both are determined to claim the prize.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut whom will Biden pick?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite promising to match President Trump and release a Supreme Court shortlist during the campaign, Biden never did. Instead he let everyone, including Clyburn, believe he would name their candidate giving him the maximum flexibility to bribe one side at the right time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe political calculus here is as crass as a Hunter Biden art show. Biden needs the support of black voters and lefties to win a nomination for another term. He’s polling deep underwater. The question is does he double down on his black loyalist base who got him to the nomination or does he make a desperate play for the Left which is likely to run a candidate against him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBernie’s people have been insisting that they will primary him in 2024. (Probably not by Bernie though.) The Bernie network has also been warning against a Childs nomination. And if either side can get a few Senate Democrats to commit to voting against Childs or Kruger, the Supreme Court nomination could go the way of Build Back Better. And Republicans wouldn’t mind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EClyburn’s pitch is that some Senate GOPers like Graham will back his candidate even if Sanders and Warren won’t. The Left’s sales pitch is that they’ll sink Biden and take the rest of his first term (not to mention any implausible second term) down if he defies their will.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDoes Biden reward his black allies or appease his leftist enemies? It’s a tough call. And that’s what will determine which particular inept hack ends up on the Supreme Court.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5310541676863551834\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/bidens-black-and-left-base-go-to-war.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5310541676863551834"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5310541676863551834"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/bidens-black-and-left-base-go-to-war.html","title":"Biden's Black and Left Base Go To War Over Supreme Court Seat"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgIk1DZJp4JxiqFTbtBUNOYS7X753x4S1cZtU0H5kyBKueC4AzPegDneA1J9PXI3xdlwTFAaPKJQdnvRt0j9VuxkZjrSXzDfkmch7mVKujanAoVeaOCY5bjvYf_dJsukS5_s0NCSuFEvQs89yMkGY6L3MJ_za91HUVKchvurTTXjPhchiWykYM=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5966708432665742083"},"published":{"$t":"2021-12-20T21:54:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-20T21:54:01.531-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Abortion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Supreme Court"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Whose Pain Matters - Babies or Child Murderers?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"When the Supreme Court took on its latest abortion case, Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied that babies in the womb feel pain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“There are spontaneous acts by dead-brained people. So I don’t think that a response by a fetus necessarily proves that there’s a sensation of pain or that there’s consciousness,” the 'Wise Latina' coldly contended.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg9BNd4tM6OAbb7lDbCHTYkdQExqOneS7D6anCBXrRCGeuIEdjIwqZuoTe5isa-DfPCrputbHeWZMpY11E7VxFiJV3CvQAXAivpClvJqokbxSv-5veJYs_zx4eFQq0oBi0eOACAaqCVPSm04IV3sRksCeJjan0Bfs70xSCmkzScQX0-ZXEh0LQ=s626\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"444\" data-original-width=\"626\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg9BNd4tM6OAbb7lDbCHTYkdQExqOneS7D6anCBXrRCGeuIEdjIwqZuoTe5isa-DfPCrputbHeWZMpY11E7VxFiJV3CvQAXAivpClvJqokbxSv-5veJYs_zx4eFQq0oBi0eOACAaqCVPSm04IV3sRksCeJjan0Bfs70xSCmkzScQX0-ZXEh0LQ=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ESotomayor’s denial that a baby feels pain was in sharp contrast to her passionate conviction that murderers who kill children experience pain as they receive the death penalty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few years ago, when Billy Ray Irick's case came before the Supreme Court, Sotomayor was his biggest fan. Irick had beaten, raped, and murdered a 7-year-old girl, but Sotomayor furiously fought for him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"If the law permits this execution to go forward in spite of the horrific final minutes that Irick may well experience, then we have stopped being a civilized nation and accepted barbarism,\" she ranted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is barbarism anyway? Is it murdering a child in the womb or putting down a child killer?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch of the political and moral capital of the Democrats has been dedicated to arguing that murdering children is a form of liberation, but that executing murderers is barbarism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe beginning and end of life remain a mystery. We cannot truly know what a baby feels in the womb or what a dying man experiences in the last moments of existence. There are anecdotal stories, scientific speculation and received religious wisdom, but in the end we cannot know.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll we can do is believe, identify, and empathize. And these qualities define our souls.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESotomayor is, despite her position, no intellectual or legal scholar. Misstating “brain dead” as “dead brained” is a little too on the nose considering her borderline illiteracy and ignorance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOften described as a “bully”, Sotomayor’s legal philosophy, such as it is, is defined by emotive berating and ad hominem attacks. Like most postmodern leftists, her arguments are usually reducible to accepting or rejecting someone’s pain based on their degree of oppression.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn her defense of affirmative action, Sotomayor argued that the trauma of racial alienation was so crippling that equal rights had to be overturned in favor of racial privileges for some.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Race matters because of the slights, the snickers, the silent judgments that reinforce that most crippling of thoughts: 'I do not belong here'\", she whined, invoking her own emotional pain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs usual, Sotomayor was speaking about herself. Even after her nomination, she complained that she felt like she didn’t belong on the Court. Years later, borrowing the same false accusations of racism and discrimination that had powered her career, she would \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2015\/09\/sonia-sotomayor-conversation-at-notre-dame-first-latina-doesnt-feel-like-she-belongs-on-supreme-court.html\"\u003Ecomplain\u003C\/a\u003E about her place on the Court, \"Will I ever quite feel that I have their same background, their same understanding of the world that I operate on? Not really.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat sense of alienation, as emotionally compelling to Sotomayor as it is to a goth teen at Hot Topic, may be detached from the reality that makes her one of the most powerful women in the country, but it feels real. In the postmodern verbiage of the Safe Space Left, it’s “her truth”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESotomayor’s truth, like that of many lefties, leads her to closely identify with the suffering of a monster who raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl, while refusing to identify with the pain of a baby in the womb. Parenthood may make Justice Amy Coney Barrett more likely than Sotomayor, who has no children, to be moved by the pain of a child. And perhaps Sotomayor can more convincingly imagine herself terminating the life of a child than bringing him to term.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut justice should be driven by the law, not feelings. Whether or not a person has rights should not be a matter of being able to empathize with their humanity in order to protect their existence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet leftist moral politics insists on exactly this sort of zero sum game of victimhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Conservatives want you to think that a fetus – a fetus who is pre-viability, which means it cannot exist outside of its mother, it cannot live outside of, of the womb, has the same – should have the same legal rights as full-grown black people in this country,\" \u003Ci\u003EThe Nation\u003C\/i\u003E's Elie Mystal ranted to Joy Reid on MSNBC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMystal and Reid could not exist on their own outside the nurturing womb of affirmative action, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have the right to exist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven though abortion disproportionately affects black babies, Mystal argues that there’s something racist in caring about the lives of babies. The zero sum game of intersectionality is all about dictating whose rights come first and to what degree. Much like affirmative action, intersectionality has reduced civil rights to a competition not for equality, but for priority.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen leftists reject the universality of the Constitution’s rights, it’s because like Mystal, the justice correspondent for a radical magazine, they don’t believe in universal rights. They demand power for their own group and for those “allies” they can empathize with.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmpathy to them, as to Sotomayor, equates to alienation, to the discord between the inner and the outer selves, the sense of external judgement and internal ego that equates to guilt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why leftists so easily relate to the criminals, the guiltiest of them all, and are unable to relate to babies, the most innocent of them all. In a morality that is based on overturning power, the worst become the best and the best become the worst. If guilt, as criminal justice reformers and the 1619 Project contend, is really innocence of oppression, then innocence must be guilt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd babies, who just want to live, are the guiltiest, most racist, and oppressive of them all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,\" Sonia Sotomayor had infamously argued.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow we see what Sotomayor’s better conclusions look like. And they’re absolutely horrifying.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe “richness” of experience, somehow accessible to Sotomayor, but not to anyone of any other gender, ethnicity, or race (especially white men) hasn’t led her to justice, but to injustice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn defending the case of a contract killer facing the death penalty, Sotomayor falsely claimed that lethal injection “may turn out to be our most cruel experiment yet”. In the Irick child murderer case, she raved that, \"the State of Tennessee is on the verge of inflicting several minutes of torturous pain on an inmate in its custody.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe speculated that the child rapist and killer may experience “sensations of suffocation and of burning that ‘may well be the chemical equivalent of being burned at the stake.’”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESotomayor is consumed with the moments of pain that she imagines killers will experience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring abortion, a suction tube pulls the baby apart or he is dismembered piece by piece with the skull finally crushed, and the parts sold off for medical experiments. What “sensations” does that produce in a baby who, according to pro-abortion activists, can be killed right up to birth?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESotomayor, who can speak about the pain of alienation or the suffering of a child killer, has no interest in envisioning the suffering of a baby being torn apart piece by piece. Against scientific findings, she insists that there’s no evidence that babies can really feel pain. At least nothing as intense as the pain caused by the alienation of feeling like she doesn’t belong on the Court.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Supreme Court, Sotomayor threatened, would not “survive the stench” of overturning Roe v. Wade. And yet it has survived the stench of Sotomayor’s presence. It has survived the stench of her advocacy for murderers while condemning babies to the cruelest possible forms of killing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExecuting a child killer, she has argued, would mean “we have stopped being a civilized nation and accepted barbarism”. What does it mean that we spend decades wrangling over the life of a child killer while dismissing the annual mass murder of babies as the price of social justice?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the heart of this debate, as with so many others, is the question of what barbarism and civilization really mean. Sotomayor has laid out her definition. It should not be dismissed lightly since it is a pagan idea that some among the ancient Greeks would have argued even better.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf we do not assert our own moral civilizational vision, we will continue to descend into a barbaric leftist society that insists it is civilized because it kills babies and spares killers.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5966708432665742083\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/whose-pain-matters-babies-or-child.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5966708432665742083"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5966708432665742083"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/whose-pain-matters-babies-or-child.html","title":"Whose Pain Matters - Babies or Child Murderers?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg9BNd4tM6OAbb7lDbCHTYkdQExqOneS7D6anCBXrRCGeuIEdjIwqZuoTe5isa-DfPCrputbHeWZMpY11E7VxFiJV3CvQAXAivpClvJqokbxSv-5veJYs_zx4eFQq0oBi0eOACAaqCVPSm04IV3sRksCeJjan0Bfs70xSCmkzScQX0-ZXEh0LQ=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}}]}});