Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Mean Tweets: An Apologia | Pageau and Hurwitz | EP 282" video.

  1.  @michaelstanwick9690  Hurwitz made the point Ronald Reagan, a "conservative", preordained his selection to be a "Woman". If you dig further you will find Sandra Day O'Conner was less qualified to be on the court than Brown, as O'Conner never served on a Federal bench. O'Conner was well aware she was an Affirmative Action choice, and spoke widely about it. Also, the first non-White on the court was Justice Louis Brandeis, appointed over 100 years ago. The first African-American on the court, Justice Thurgood Marshall. was appointed in 1967, 55 years ago. Most Americans alive today were born after Marshal's appointment and live in that America. Both O'Conner and Brown were political choices by the ruling party, no question, part of the foundation of being a Republic and not a pure democracy.
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  2.  @gandydancer9710  All qualified in similar ways, just as Brown is. In a Republic, the ruling party has that prerogative. I'm glad, we really missed the bullet with Garland, who has proven to be a party hack on steroids.
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