Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is opposed to confirming any of President Obama’s three nominees to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. When told that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts supported filling the positions back in April, Sen. Sessions was incredulous:
Also an advocate of filling the court’s empty slots: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. He backed the court keeping all 11 seats in an April 5 report issued by the Judicial Conference of the United States, which is headed by Roberts. Sessions, for one, hadn’t heard about Roberts’ support.
“I want to see that quote. Where’d he say that?” Sessions asked, jumping out of an elevator he’d just hopped into. When HuffPost cited the April 5 report, Sessions grumbled about Roberts not being a real Republican.
“He’s always advocating the court. He wants pay raises for staff,” he said. “Otherwise, he’s supposed to be conservative.”
That’s right. John Roberts isn’t a real conservative because he wants pay raises for judicial staff and thinks judges should serve in slots reserved for judges rather than having multiple vacancies just because Sen. Sessions is a dick.
One of the Senate’s greatest wankers. And of course, that is truly saying something.
Let us also never forget that this is a man deemed by the Senate Judiciary Committee to be too racist for the federal bench… in 1986.
Yes, that is a rather crucial thing to remember about J. Beauregard’s past in this instance, isn’t it?
At any rate, this story is the funniest thing I’ve read all day. That scene at the elevator- I can just imagine the look on Sessions’ pinched face.
HAHAHA!!!
“Not a real Republican?” I realize it’s a minor academic point at best, but wasn’t there some sort of reason for granting SCOTUS judges lifetime appointments? Something that had to do with political partisanship?
Beat me to the punch. I guess that puts the lie to the whole “judges are nonpartisan” myth, huh?
It’s not so much non-partisan as insulated from outside influence. Of course, if their inclinations are to plutocracy that just gets protected too. Which is why SCOTUS nominations are “a big fucking deal.”
Mortal sin that that is in the eyes of Sen. Sessions, but can you imagine Roberts’ audacity in advocating for the judiciary? The Chief Justice’s disregard for Sen. Sessions’ pet whims makes him so mad, Sen. Sessions stamps his size 5½ feet in utter, impotent rage!
Wow, the grapes are still sour after all these years. I guess we dodged a bitter, hate-filled bullet.
Can’t expect too much from someone named after Jefferson Davis and Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. One day Senator Sessions’ world, as he sees it, will truly be Gone with the Wind.
It already is. He just hasn’t gotten the memo yet.
There are 795,696 people in Alabama who voted for Barack Obama in 2012. Is there not one of them who can run against Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III and beat him in 2014?