As Covid-19's awful record is written, let's acknowledge that one high-level and highly stupid analogy made Tuesday in fact has a relevant antecedent.
I watched this morning as rightwing WI Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley in her condemnation of the Evers administration's life-saving Safer-at-Home extension invoked (begin at the 58-minute mark and watch counsel's respectful and instructive shredding of same)
the round-up and imprisonment by US soldiers Japanese-American citizens during WW II.
Her painfully limited 'argument' reminded me of then-GOP US Sen. Roman Hruska's memorable defense of a rejected Richard Nixon Supreme Court nominee who'd been labeled "mediocre."
I watched this morning as rightwing WI Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley in her condemnation of the Evers administration's life-saving Safer-at-Home extension invoked (begin at the 58-minute mark and watch counsel's respectful and instructive shredding of same)
the round-up and imprisonment by US soldiers Japanese-American citizens during WW II.
Her painfully limited 'argument' reminded me of then-GOP US Sen. Roman Hruska's memorable defense of a rejected Richard Nixon Supreme Court nominee who'd been labeled "mediocre."
"Even if he [Carswell] were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they? We can't have all Brandeises and Frankfurters and Cardozos."Then I came to my senses, realizing that given her persistent analytical deficits, lumping in Rebecca Bradley with the mediocre - and, by the way, thank you, Gov. Walker, for originally citing her "integrity" and in rapid succession putting her on the Court and two others - did them an incredible disservice:
Rebecca Bradley called gay people 'degenerates,' 'queers' in college newspaper columns