Few anticipate lofty consideration from the Biden White House, or meaningful United States Senate deliberation to fill this Court vacancy, as another American institution plummets to the level of Saudi Arabian police squads or Israeli prison guards.
So, the nomination and confirmation will be an ornate charade performed in the U.S. Capitol Building, from whence CNN and MSNBC will intone on its importance in the affirmation of democratic processes.
But the confirmation fight will not be the stuff of 1987 Robert Bork nomination battles, and citizens pressuring Senate votes against a nominee out of step on civil liberties, labor rights and the environment.
Most Americans have these concerns, but today's Democratic Party is the Bork Party of corporatists and police, with a stilted concern on the right to choose, unless choice causes contemplation on changing the Court, or conflicts with identity politics.
The 2022 Court nomination and confirmation will still be Summer fun, but the type of fun my wife has when she endures watching the Super Bowl. She's more interested in the half-time show and commercials than the game itself.
A Democratic Party that somehow manages to make voting rights seem a distraction will, without question, manage to make a sacred nomination and confirmation process a defiled and fetid affair, as black identity politics rears its head.
That the confirmation fight will occur in an architectural marvel such as the U.S. Capitol seems in a visceral way another comic episode of Veep as the Senate Chambers — that should cause anyone setting foot to soar as history and the people are foisted on the soul — becomes a pit of cynicism and malice.
Already, the person of Rep. James Clyburn (Black-South Carolina) is assuring the White House that a blackish voice is needed, one Judge J. Michelle Childs, "who previously worked as a management-side lawyer," notes In These Times, and a 'throw them in prison' Democrat in rulings commonly overturned on appeal (The American Prospect).
Clyburn is the same boss who guided the architects of prison-state America, Hillary Clinton and Biden, to Democratic Primary victories. Good thing for Clyburn the 13th Amendment has that "punishment for crime" clause because Clyburn would not have a career without it.
As class politics and concern for working families are betrayed again, a new black face assures, everything is just fine.
Come Summer, witness the Capitol edifice touching the soul and refining it, as identity politics grind hope and humanism into musty dust.
You want to know how black identity politics will work with the Biden vow to nominate a black woman to the Court? See below:
I'm gonna post it again, because it bears repeating. pic.twitter.com/9Bweda5Vsv
— Dr. Claw (@DrClaw77) August 4, 2021
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