Celebrating the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of Progress

 

 

 From March 2016, a piece on US Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, later blocked in favour of former "Devil's Triangle" "boofer" Brett Kavanaugh 

(seen here chatting with Kamala Harris)

 And, from February the 22nd of this year, Merrick Garland speaking as Nominee for Attorney General:

"July 2020 marked the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Justice... Celebrating DOJ's 150th year reminds us of the origins of the Department, which was founded during Reconstruction, in the aftermath of the Civil War, to secure the civil rights promised by the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. The first Attorney General appointed by President Grant to head the new Department led it in a concerted battle to protect black voting rights from the violence of white supremacists, successfully prosecuting hundreds of cases against members of the Ku Klux Klan... That mission remains urgent because we do not yet have equal justice. Communities of colour and other minorities still face discrimination in housing, education, employment, and the criminal justice system... If confirmed, I will supervise the prosecution of white supremacists and others who stormed the Capitol on January 6th."  

 Confirmed today. 

 Seventy votes to thirty.

 

BY A LOT

 This is the last of the four posts that will begin with me confessing I'm posting them all on the evening of Saturday the seventh. This is the evening that it was finally confirmed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had indeed won the election, and Trump's legal team had indeed chosen not to concede graciously but instead announce that "lawsuits will be brought, starting on Monday", and that "networks don't get to decide an election, courts do" from a freestanding podium in a parking lot because they'd booked the wrong Four Seasons. 

 

 I have been waiting so long to be able to find this monstrous administration funny, and now... oh god... I just... and all of us... I know that when I decided to try blogging daily it was because I didn't want just to be reacting to stuff on twitter but... Oh God look at it! This, and the sudden revelation of the unpopulairty of populists. And everything. 

The other Four Seasons

Thank you. Thank you to those courageous enough to stay in line for eight hours in the face of unprecedented and state-mandated voter intimidation, thank you to everyone who made a plan for this, and thank you, thank you, Four Seasons Total Landscaping, beside Fantasy Island Adult Books, and opposite Delaware Valley Cemation Centre, for taking that call.