Justice wept
by Tom Sullivan
To believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is mistaken about being assaulted as a teenager by Brett Kavanaugh is to insist she is mistaken about both Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge. She named both as attackers in her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Let that sink in.
The FBI interviewed neither man.
Republicans in the Senate hope this weekend to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime seat on the United States Supreme Court. This, after his public temper tantrum even longtime friends acknowledge was disqualifying regardless of the accuracy of Ford's recollection.JUST IN: Anti-Kavanaugh protesters take over the Hart Senate Office Bldg. atrium on Capitol Hill. https://t.co/jCIbxhTKeu pic.twitter.com/DkOgzngMh4
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 4, 2018
Yet half the members of the United States Senate are nonetheless hell-bent on appointing Kavanaugh in "an act of rank tribalism."Anti-Kavanaugh protesters have taken over the atrium of the Hart Senate Office building pic.twitter.com/W5yBIU2YOs
— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) October 4, 2018
America indeed seems to be tearing itself asunder emotionally and politically while violating norms of decency it once preached to the rest of the world.This is the Hart Senate Building right now. pic.twitter.com/1hTQ7MazhP
— Lissandra Villa (@LissandraVilla) October 4, 2018
On Thursday, the day the Rev. William Barber Jr. was awarded a $625,000 “genius grant,” Barber was hard to reach, because he was being arrested. Which is related to why the North Carolina preacher was given one of the rare MacArthur Foundation awards.The powerless have more power than they know and advocates the powerful need fear.
Barber, 55, is one of the country’s best-known public advocates fighting racism and poverty, known for successfully organizing tens of thousands of people in marches and other nonviolent acts of civil disobedience around the country. On Thursday, as MacArthur was announcing that Barber was among 25 people “on the precipice of great discovery or a game-changing idea,” Barber’s Poor People’s Campaign was tweeting about his arrest.
“I’ve just been arrested in Chicago, and I’m waiting on their process,” he said in a call to the Raleigh News & Observer. “For minimum wage, in front of McDonald’s headquarters.”