The fix is in at the Senate to push Katanji Brown Jackson into the Supreme Court

Since the vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee was an 11-11 tie, Jackson was not voted out of the committee for the nomination to go to the Senate floor. A “discharge petition” was first required with a vote by the senate. This would discharge the nomination out of the committee.

In the following one-page excerpt from the Congressional Record, page S1952, you can see what happened on 5 April. The page has three columns. Near the bottom of the first column is the proceeding and vote on the request to discharge the nomination out of the committee. The vote was a 50-50 tie! What in the world was going on, you might ask? Collins, Murkowski, and Romney had announced they would support Jackson, but then voted against putting her nomination onto the senate floor for consideration. However, as everybody and their dog knew was going to happen, up popped vice-president Kamala Harris to vote “in the affirmative, and the motion is agreed to”. The nomination was therefore “discharged and will be placed on the calendar”, as the top of column two shows.

Then came the request to proceed to executive session to be considered as Calendar number 860. Like magic, the vote suddenly changed! Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitt Romney voted to put the nomination on the calendar for the final two votes, and the tally was 53-47. Column three says that the motion for a cloture vote was then presented–

This brings us to this morning’s cloture vote. The deal proceeded, and the vote to end debate was 53-47 once again–

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00133.htm

The word in the wind early today (Thursday, 7 April) was that another deal had been made about debate. Usually in this situation, after cloture was invoked, there could be up to 30 hours of debate. This means that the Republicans could have continued to hold the floor and talk for up to 30 hours before a final up or down vote occurred. But there may have been a deal to talk for a shorter period of time and have a final vote perhaps this afternoon.

Sure enough, as of this moment (12:56 p.m. central time), the senate is voting on the nomination as an up or down vote. There are 11 minutes and 24 seconds left in the voting period. The final vote was 53-47.

The Congressional webpage on the nomination shows that the nomination of Katanji Brown Jackson was received by the Senate on 28 February 2022. Hearings were held from 21 March to 24 March. In less than a month, a so-called evaluation of her legal and personal history was raced through the Judiciary Committee. Attempts to get more information about her lenient position on child pornography sentencing were blocked by committee chairman Senator Richard Durbin. Furthermore, her attitude about child pornography was not the only problem with her nomination. There was no need to rush the nomination through because the retiring Judge Stephen Breyer would not leave until around the end of June, when the Supreme Court’s term ends, and then the court has a three-month recess until the next term starts in October 2022. Here is the Congressional webpage for presidential nomination 1783 for Jackson–

http://www.congress.gov/nomination/117th-congress/1783

Those of you who called your senators to oppose the confirmation did not waste your time. The senate was forced to shorten time frames and slither around in order to force the confirmation through.

What to do now? The first thing is to think and organize in order to vote against senators who are up for re-election this fall in 2022 who voted for Jackson.

Child pornography first requires that the rape of a child or baby takes place, or the sadistic physical assault on a child or baby takes place (child pornography includes sado-masochistic behavior, including torture). While the crime of rape or assault or torture of the child or baby takes place, that crime is photographed, videotaped, filmed, or otherwise recorded. Or, a nude child in various poses is photographed, videotaped, filmed, or otherwise recorded. Then, the photographs or moving pictures are usually distributed either for free or sold to others for money.

If the race and sex of a nominee are to be used to make a selection to the Supreme Court, there are Black females who do not have the attitude about child pornography and the other negative issues that Katanji Jackson has. Michelle Childs of South Carolina is one. She is a federal District Judge there. Among other things, she was the first Black female lawyer to be made a partner in a private law firm in South Carolina. She also served as a state court judge. She was nominated to be on the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on 10 January 2022. Her nomination is pending–

http://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2022/01/10/senate-section/article/S122-2

The intellectual and moral corruption of the United States Senate has been displayed for the entire country to see.