The Nomination Of Judge Barrett: Another Denigration Of Honor by Linn Washington!
(2020-10-11 at 21:14:32 )

The Nomination Of Judge Barrett: Another Denigration Of Honor by Linn Washington!

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Honor is a word President Donald Trumps latest nominee to the United States Supreme Court - Amy Coney Barrett - employed twice in the first few seconds of her remarks during that Rose Garden ceremony on the last Saturday in September.

Of course, Judge Barrett, who has taught at law schools, employed definitionally appropriate usage of the word honor when she expressed her esteem and high respect during that ceremony now shamed as a COVID-19 Super Spreader event due to numerous attendees afterward testing positive for the virus.

However, the problem for Ms Barrett and too many others in ranking governmental positions is the apparent abandonment of another common usage for the word honor - the definition that includes integrity, truthfulness and adherence to what is right.

Judge Barrett, in the second sentence of her remarks, said she was "deeply honored" by the nomination to Americas most powerful court from President Trump, easily the most dishonorable president in the nations history.

Two sentences after Ms Barretts homage to Donald Trump, Ms Barrett highlighted the "honor" of a Senate confirmation of her nomination. The Senates Republican majority is set to bum-rush Ms Barretts high court confirmation.

That Republican majority is inclusive of GOP Senators who define dishonor with their hypocrisy. Those hypocrites cravenly blocked President Barack Obamas early 2016 election year Supreme Court nominee yet crassly support Donald Trumps late 2020 election year nomination of Ms Barrett.

Ms Barretts acceptance of Donald Trumps nomination is another stain on the "honorable judiciary" that the Code of Conduct for federal judges declares is "indispensable to justice in our society."

Abandonment of classic honor is evident at all levels of government, on all sides of the partisan divide..although it predominates among Republicans. This lack of adherence to what is right for the greater good contaminates people in governmental positions irrespective of gender and race.

Daniel Cameron, the Republican Attorney General in Kentucky, who is African American, now confronts demands for his resignation. Those demands arise from Mr. Camerons ham-handed handling of the grand jury investigation that excused police misconduct directly related to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.

What underlies condemnation of Mr. Cameron nationwide? His questionable adherence to Kentuckys Code of Ethics that requires actions by officials that "promote public confidence in the integrity of government."

Mr. Cameron has yet to address his seeming aversion to what is right - even the appearance of doing what is right - from incidents during Mr. Camerons self-described "independent" investigation into the police killing of Ms Taylor..Mr. Camerons deliverance of a law-&-order speech at the RNC National Convention in August and his attendance at a pro-law enforcement White House confab in June, undermined public confidence in the integrity of government..at least Mr. Camerons governance.

Where is the honor among top federal public health officials who publicly appease deliriums of President Donald Trump like his dangerous support for injections of poisonous bleach to cure COVID-19? Honor would dictate resignations. A former CDC Director recently called-out the current CDC Director to resign to protest President Trumps "knee on the neck of the public health community" that sabotages effective response to COVID-19.

Judge Barretts service on the United States Supreme Court would be an honorific achievement for her. That court, for nearly 200-years, was all-male. That changed in 1981, when the first female joined that bench, followed by three others to date. That court in 1872 ruled the legal profession was not a place for women.

Ms Barrett, during her Rose Garden remarks, gave duplicitous tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the liberal Justice she is slated to replace and the Justice whose stances on justice is the anthesis of Ms Barretts rabid conservatism.

Ms Barrett praised her mentor, Antonin Scalia, the late, right-wing Supreme Court Justice that GOP Senators blocked former President Obama from replacing in 2016.

Ms Barrett said she shares the "judicial philosophy" of Mr. Scalia, the Justice who awarded her a prestigious, career elevating Supreme Court clerkship.

(Interestingly, Ginsberg and Scalia - although ideological opposites - shared something in common: each did little to reverse the Supreme Courts legacy of racially discriminatory exclusion of Blacks from clerkships.)

Ms Barrett pledged in her remarks to "do equal right to the poor.." That pledge clashes with Ms Barretts willful engagement in a dishonorable confirmation process where President Donald Trump and the GOP Senators who back her Supreme Court installation have turned their collective backs on the unprecedented Pandemic-spawned suffering ripping millions of United States of American families from the poor through the middle class.

Ms Barrett placed a lot of focus on the virtues of family when she addressed that Rose Garden assemblage, where few attendees wore masks and fewer practiced social distancing.

Ms Barretts focus on her motherhood without even passing reference to Pandemic agonies endured by millions of other mothers across the United States of America displayed an indifference to human suffering that contradict characterizations of her as honorable.

Millions of mothers without any income, unlike Ms Barrett with her secure judicial paycheck, now face circumstances like evictions and no food for their children because the same GOP Senators intent on elevating Ms Barrett to the Supreme Court have stalled new, substantive stimulus aid to mitigate the Pandemics financial pain on United States of American families.

Ms Barretts participation in this perverted confirmation process affirms her profound lack of adherence to what is right.

She lacks honor.

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