The original poster is not a woman of color. He has identified as a ‘dude’ in previous comments.

I’m not a white woman. I happen to be Mexican.

I’ve been refused jobs and fired due to being a woman.

Don’t do this. You’re not helping. White women may be more privileged than women of color (and a bit oblivious too) but that doesn’t mean they don’t experience discrimination. Their experiences are still valid and important.

It is possible that shelwood was referring (albeit rudely) to the fact that all women were punished for speaking out on diversity, regardless of race.

Nothing new to white women, either. Thanks for playing.

I know his position on the issues - he’s very, very, deeply wrong. He’s anti-abortion. He’s voted against civil rights bills. He’s voted against gay rights, an issue near and dear to my super gay heart.

He is a hardline conservative on most issues who is certainly more in favor of boots-on-the-ground interventionism than the mainstream, but he’s not a “shut down the government” guy, nor is he a bigot or a cretin. Yes, he holds Republican party line positions on every issue, and no, I don’t agree with any of them. But…

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I really don’t like that she used the word loser. It’s an insult and as someone who has been appalled by the nastiness, vulgarity and awful things that Trump has been saying, I really don’t want to see it in our politicians/presidential candidates.

Guess the answer is that you’re trolling. The good thing about being a lawyer is that I actually know what I’m talking about, but the downside is that it makes my blood boil now in a way it didn't use to when people adamantly stick to their objectively incorrect statement while calling everyone else stupid. I’m not…

Citizens United is undoubtedly a terrible decision, but you’re going to be hard-pressed to find ANY judge in this country who simply says it should be reversed full stop - and procedurally, it’s not like the court can be like “oh hey we’d like a do-over of that one decision we made before the bad man died.” You need…

I think the Dems will retake the Senate, but I don’t think they’ll have 60 votes. And, in any event, Republicans could make the confirmation hearings an intolerable shitshow for a progressive nominee, which is the last thing a new president with a legislative agenda is going to want to deal with.

That was the FEC’s argument, but that doesn’t mean that it complied with the Citizen’s United opinion. Of course the court could have accepted the FEC’s argument. A court always has the option. That does not mean it was a good argument under the law that existed. Further, I think it would have been overturned because…

One, I did not say that he would overturn it. You said he wouldn’t. I am saying that you have no reason to say that based upon prior cases that he has been involved in and the fact that he was on a court junior to the Supreme Court.

You don’t know that he wouldn’t overturn it.. Has he said what he would do?

I respect that opinion. I don’t necessarily agree with it, but it’s rational and thought through.

I don’t know that Hillary (I don’t see Bernie being the guy, I just don’t) would really have all that much of a problem with a Garland pick. Even in a normal year, this seat would have been controversial - replacing a hard-line conservative with a hard-line liberal is not something that would have gone over well with…

Garland goes by the letter of the law. Perhaps as a judge, he didn’t think the decision before him could be overturned? That doesn’t mean he’s pro-oligarchy, it may just mean he didn’t think he had enough evidence to change it.

There’s also a broad gulf between being an appeals court judge bound by SCOTUS precedent and being on the court when it is asked to determine where to set that precedent. We don’t know what Garland might do when evaluating a case of first impression (which is part of why litmus tests are stupid).

Even if you’re coming at this from the Bernie economic justice perspective, Citizens United shouldn’t be the only litmus test. Yes, it sucks that there is so much money in politics, but there’s very little indication that it is making much of a difference - Jeb Bush spent $100 million and sank like a rock, and Obama,…