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In Case You Missed These Little Events

In a reveal­ing and con­se­quen­tial arti­cle (CNN​.com) report on a lit­tle fact which just elude us as Donald Trump announced DC insid­er Brett Kavanaugh to fill the supreme court seat made vacant by the retire­ment of Anthony Kennedy.
Since the Supreme Court first con­vened in 1790, 113 jus­tices have served on the bench.

In the 228-year his­to­ry of the Supreme Court, only 5.3% of jus­tices have been women or minorities.
That, of course, is if you buy into the idea that Clarence Thomas the black tool of the right wing actu­al­ly sees him­self as a minority.

From left, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Sandra Day Oconnor.
Of the 113 jus­tices, 109 — or 96.5% — have been men.
Until 1981, every Supreme Court jus­tice was male. But Ronald Reagan promised he’d put a woman on the court, and dur­ing his first year in office he kept that promise by appoint­ing Sandra Day O’Connor.
Before that, pres­i­dents had appoint­ed women to low­er courts, but no one gave seri­ous thought to putting one on the Supreme Court. President Harry Truman thought about nom­i­nat­ing a woman, but jus­tices at the time said they “would inhib­it their con­fer­ence deliberations.”
Bill Clinton made the sec­ond female appoint­ment by nom­i­nat­ing Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1993.
And Barack Obama appoint­ed Sonia Sotomayor in 2009, fol­lowed by Elena Kagan a year later.
Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan all sit on the cur­rent court.https://​www​.cnn​.com/​2​0​1​8​/​0​7​/​0​9​/​p​o​l​i​t​i​c​s​/​s​u​p​r​e​m​e​-​c​o​u​r​t​-​j​u​s​t​i​c​e​-​m​i​n​o​r​i​t​i​e​s​-​t​r​n​d​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​h​tml

DID YOU KNOW THAT IN THE HISTORY OF THE FBI THE BUREAU HAS NEVER HAD A DEMOCRAT AS DIRECTOR?

In January of this year

RON ELVING writ­ing for (NPR​.org)

Let’s talk about Teddy Roosevelt for a moment. He start­ed the pre­cur­sor agency called the Bureau of Investigation way back in 1908. He did it because he want­ed some­one to look at the books of some of the coun­try’s largest and most pow­er­ful busi­ness­es, which he sus­pect­ed of vio­lat­ing the anti-trust laws meant to rein in the activ­i­ties of monopolies.

Similarly, when the bureau was tasked with find­ing German spies dur­ing the World War I, it could be called law enforce­ment — pure and sim­ple. But what about when it went round­ed up and detained cit­i­zens who had not yet reg­is­tered for the draft? Or harassed polit­i­cal rad­i­cals of var­i­ous stripes whom the admin­is­tra­tion saw as secu­ri­ty risks for their unortho­dox ideas?

Hoover hound­ed Martin Luther King Jr. for years — at one point send­ing him tape record­ings of his tapped tele­phone and urg­ing him to com­mit suicide.
I have always been skep­ti­cal at the trust black Americans have in the FBI., They always seemed to believe that when their rights are vio­lat­ed by local cops and the FBI is brought in to inves­ti­gate they are on the road to receiv­ing jus­tice. The his­to­ry of the FBI cer­tain­ly does not sup­port this degree of trust in my estimation.

As a mat­ter of real­i­ty, the FBI has been polit­i­cal from its out­set. While it has always had an ethos of pro­fes­sion­al­ism and objec­tiv­i­ty and devo­tion to law, the peo­ple in charge of it and the peo­ple in charge of the admin­is­tra­tions under which it has served have been as polit­i­cal and as par­ti­san as it is pos­si­ble to be.
Read more here: https://​www​.npr​.org/​2​0​1​8​/​0​1​/​2​6​/​5​8​0​6​7​7​7​4​2​/​t​h​e​-​m​a​s​s​i​v​e​-​c​a​s​e​-​o​f​-​c​o​l​l​e​c​t​i​v​e​-​a​m​n​e​s​i​a​-​t​h​e​-​f​b​i​-​h​a​s​-​b​e​e​n​-​p​o​l​i​t​i​c​a​l​-​f​r​o​m​-​t​h​e​-​s​t​art

TRUMP PARDONS WHITE ARSONIST RANCHERS WHO SET FIRE TO FEDERAL LANDS.
Donald Trump is par­don­ing two cat­tle ranch­ers con­vict­ed of arson in a case that case sparked the armed occu­pa­tion of a nation­al wildlife refuge in Oregon.

Dwight and Steven Hammond were con­vict­ed in 2012 of inten­tion­al­ly and mali­cious­ly set­ting fires on pub­lic lands. The arson crime car­ried a min­i­mum prison sen­tence of five years, but a sym­pa­thet­ic fed­er­al judge, on his last day before retire­ment, decid­ed the penal­ty was too stiff and gave the father and son much lighter prison terms. http://​cbs6al​bany​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​n​a​t​i​o​n​-​w​o​r​l​d​/​t​r​u​m​p​-​p​a​r​d​o​n​s​-​r​a​n​c​h​e​r​s​-​i​n​-​c​a​s​e​-​t​h​a​t​-​i​n​s​p​i​r​e​d​-​2​0​1​6​-​o​c​c​u​p​a​t​i​o​n​-07 – 10-2018