we should all aim that high
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Republican Senator from Alabama, obviously didn't like Thurgood Marshall. He's mad as all hell that Elena Kagan - who clerked for Justice Marshall for a year in 1988 - has the audacity to have "reverence" for him.Jon Kyl, Republican Senator from Arizona said, "Kagan seems to "enthusiastically embrace" Marshall's philosophy by labeling it a "thing of glory."
Tom Coburn, Republican Senator from Oklahoma and Orrin Hatch, Mormon Wingnut from Utah, know they dislike Marshall for some reason but they just can't think of it right now.
Was it Marshall's lead role in Brown vs. Board of Education? I guess with a name like 'Jefferson Beauregard III' there's a good chance you're not a big fan of integrated schools.
Maybe they don't like Justice Marshall because he said the Constitution as 'originally conceived and drafted' was “defective.” Since he was referring to the fact that our Constitution as 'originally conceived and drafted' counted slaves as three-fifths of a "free" person, I don't think you can argue with that.
Or was it because he was a 'judicial activist' who opposed the death penalty 100% of the times it came before him? I personally support the death penalty in cases of aggravated first degree murder but I don't see it mentioned one way or the other in the Constitution. We haven't had the death penalty here in Michigan since 1846. Of course, Alabama, Arizona, Oklahoma and Utah have active death rows. That shouldn't surprise anyone.
All Thurgood Marshall did his entire life was fight for the underdog and now these redneck sons-of-bitches try to run him down so they can impress their redneck base on national TV. Elena Kagan has nothing to apologize for.
And I like it when Republicans attack Thurgood Marshall. Just like I enjoy seeing them defend BP. It always shows which side they're on.
