I haven't been watching the Kavanaugh hearings, Senate Judiciary hearings always make me want to puke, even at the best of times. Though I have listened to video of some of the Senators questioning of him, Senator Mazie Hirono stands out, as do a few others.
I don't listen to the Republicans, prefering to read their hypocrisy and lies than to hear it coming from their lying lips. So, I didn't hear Lindsay Graham make the comment at the end of this paragraph.
Perhaps that’s why one of the most gripping moments of the hearings came late Wednesday night when Sen. Kamala Harris asked whether Kavanaugh was aware of any laws “that give the government the power to make decisions about the male body.” It was not a legal question. It was simply a way to make concrete what has been happening all week. Kavanaugh’s response—“I’m not thinking of any right now, senator”—was perfectly truthful. There are none. That’s why a roomful of men talking about undue burdens in Planned Parenthood v. Casey isn’t a sporting event for these spectators. When Sen. Lindsey Graham smugly told the nominee on Thursday morning that “the last time I checked, liberty didn’t equate to abortion,” that wasn’t a performance. It was a promise.
Lindsay Graham is a deeply in-the-closet though practically universally known to be gay man who is a member of a rabidly anti-LGBT party from one of the most benighted states in the country on LGBT issues, a state which has, nonetheless, kept him in the Congress for decades, South Carolina is a state with a long history of hypocrisy of that kind, having sent pretty openly known aristocratic gay men to the Congress since the antebellum period. The all-round rapist and degenerate Senator Jim Hammond, for example.
Lindsay Graham would certainly know that before the Supreme Court changed its mind and abolished laws against gay sex those laws did " give the government the power to make decisions about the male body."
I wonder what Brett Kavanaugh might have had to say about the court case that knocked town "sodomy laws" and the Constitutionality of state laws making it a felony for men to have sex for a few minutes as opposed to the laws that would force women to be pregnant for nine months, if not have life-long consequences of laws that gave the power to make decisions about womens' bodies.
I know that one of the things to fear from a Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court will be that the Roberts-fascists will overturn the recent ruling against state laws banning same-sex marriage or recognizing those which are legally entered into in other states. I wouldn't be surprised if they overturned the Loving v. Virginia if Clarence Thomas weren't married to a white woman. Though, given what he is, he might vote to overturn it, I've heard lawyers say that some of his legal writing has the logical conclusion that Loving was wrongly decided. I would love it if someone pointedly asked him more about such issues.
Lindsay Graham is a living monument to hypocrisy of the most disgusting kind, out him whenever you mention his name.
I never knew that about Hammond. I attended 12 years of schooling at a white-flight school named after him, and they certainly never discussed that!
ReplyDeleteHe was quite the degenerate, raping his young female relatives and slaves and his in-laws' children. And a figure in the South Carolina and Confederate establishment.
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