Not enough sympathy has been extended to the real victim of JD Vance’s ascent to public life,
#Amy #Adams,
whose career took a meteor-sized hit in 2020 thanks to her appearance in Ron Howard’s "Hillbilly Elegy",
the movie adaptation of Vance’s bestselling memoir of 2016.

As Vance’s voice rings across the US this week after becoming Trump’s pick to be vice-president,
spare a thought for Adams,
who can never shake off the visual memory many of us have of her as #Bev,
Vance’s rackety mother,
chain-smoking in dungarees
while Glenn Close staggers about in the background like a cross between Catherine Tate’s Nan and an Appalachian Deirdre Barlow.

Hillbilly Elegy,
and Vance himself, unpacking his backstory at the RNC this week,
tell the heartwarming tale of a boy’s rise from poverty and despair
to the world of Yale law school,
a job in venture capital,
and eventually the sunny uplands of radicalised ultra-right opinion,
including the one Vance shared in 2021
– that staying in a violent marriage is a better option than divorce.

That we must suffer Vance daily in the news is bad enough.

That America’s sweetheart has somehow been dragged into all this is, on top of everything else, frankly intolerable.
@Brooke

What are you watching tonight?
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#tvguide #ATeam #BA #Baracus #MrT #ILoveItWhenAPlanComesTogether #PityTheFool #Murdoch #Face #Amy #HannibalATeam #DirkBenedict

Justice #Amy #Coney #Barrett’s opinion was just a page long, all of two paragraphs.
But in distancing herself from both blocs in Monday’s nominally unanimous Supreme Court decision rejecting a constitutional challenge to former President Donald J. Trump’s eligibility to hold office, she staked out a distinctive role.

Justice Barrett was the third of Mr. Trump’s appointees, rushed onto the court after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arriving just before the 2020 election. But she is viewed as one of the more moderate members, relatively speaking, of the court’s six-member conservative supermajority. At oral arguments, she can convey a mix of intellectual seriousness and common sense.

In public appearances, she is adamant that the court is apolitical, though she sometimes says so in venues that undercut her message.
In 2021, for instance, Justice Barrett told an audience in Kentucky that “my goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks.”
-- She was speaking at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center, after an introduction by Senator #Mitch #McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader, who helped found the center and was instrumental in ensuring her confirmation. Last year, she was the featured speaker at the annual gala of the #Federalist #Society, the conservative legal group.

“This suit was brought by Colorado voters under state law in state court,” Justice Barrett wrote.
“It does not require us to address the complicated question whether federal legislation is the exclusive vehicle through which Section 3 can be enforced.”

Having established that she sided with her liberal colleagues on the #substance of what they had to say, she questioned their #tone, calling it #strident.

Members of the court who disagree with the majority, she said, face a choice, adding that her colleagues had made the wrong one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/politics/amy-coney-barrett-trump-ballot-scotus.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

ProPublica: The #Judiciary Has Policed Itself for Decades. It Doesn’t Work. The secretive #JudicialConference is tasked with self-governance. The group, led by #SupremeCourt’s #chiefjustice, has spent decades #preserving #perks, defending judges and thwarting outside #oversight. #democracy #ethicsreform #SCOTUS #corruption #FinancialDisclosures #perks #govdocs #legalresearch #recuse #clarencethomas #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #amy coney barrett #BrettKavanaugh #federalistsociety #legalresearch

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach Use a Domestic Violence Hashtag to Announce New Podcast https://jezebel.com/t-j-holmes-and-amy-robach-use-a-domestic-violence-hash-1850981486 #Jezebel #entertainmentculture #priestsforlife #pseudoscience #socialissues #iheartmedia #amyrobach #instagram #tjholmes #tjholmes #hashtag #robach #amytj #goop #amy

My retro-nostalgia distraction for this morning. This pull out poster turned up in the recent attic clear-out. #ATeam #BA #Baracus #MrT #ILoveItWhenAPlanComesTogether #PityTheFool #Murdoch #Face #Amy #HannibalATeam #DirkBenedict