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Talk Radio – March 29, 2022 – Battered Justice! – Call In 1-800-450-7876
March 29 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
March 29, 2022, “Battered Justice: Consequences of Clarence Thomas Confirmation, Ethical Conflicts, and Racism on Display Again During Judge Jackson Brown Confirmation Hearings”
Join President and Founder Barbara R. Arnwine, Esq. along with Co-Host and Chair Board, Daryl D. Jones, Esq., Every Tuesday from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Attorney Daryl Jones and I will rotate in asking questions during the show. The questions included below are designed to provide a guide but are not the only possible questions, nor may they be asked in the exact same order.
The first segment of the show will look back on the decades-long battle for the fight for Black women to be on the Supreme Court and some top line reaction to last week’s Confirmation Hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. We will discuss the disrespectful, racist antics on display by several senators, especially the “Gang of Five”: Senators Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, Marcia Blackburn, Ted Cruz, and Tom Cotton.
In the second segment, we will discuss the ongoing troubling consequences and legacy of the Clarence Thomas confirmation. In particular, we will examine the latest ethical conflict posed by his wife’s direct communications with Mark Meadows, former White House Chief of Staff, attempting subversion of the 2020 election results and her connections to the January 6th Insurrection. A major controversy is waging as to whether or not Judge Clarence Thomas should have recused himself from earlier considerations by the Court of issues related to the 2020 elections and prior and upcoming cases.
The third segment and fourth segments will be devoted to a general discussion of the Supreme Court’s current role in undermining civil rights progress; prior confirmation battles; next steps in the Judge Ketanji Brown Confirmation Proceedings; and, TJC activism to confront the racist behavior of the Gang of Five and other senators prior to the April 4th Senate Judiciary Committee vote and the Floor vote of the entire Senate.
These are the issues we will cover during this show.
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SHOW DESCRIPTION AND BACKGROUND
The topic of our March 29th, 2022 show is “Battered Justice: Consequences of Clarence Thomas Confirmation, Ethical Conflicts, and Racism on Display Again During Judge Jackson Brown Confirmation Hearings”.
The themes and subjects of our show this week is drawn from the top headlines regarding the Supreme Court battles and is necessitated by the overall failure of the media to capture the actual nature and devastating, wicked behavior of the Gang of Five during the Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation Hearings. Besides offering our unique, pointed, and insightful commentary on these events, we will discuss next steps in which our listeners can impact the upcoming confirmation proceedings.
GUESTS
Dianne Wilkerson – TJC Board Treasurer; former Massachusetts State Senator; Radio Show Host; COVID-19 Racial Equity Advocate; and, Entrepreneur
Prof. Luke Harris – Co-Founder and Executive of the African American Policy Forum and Associate Professor of American Politics and Constitutional Law at Vassar College
Prof. F. Michael Higginbotham – Laurence M. Katz Professor of Law and former Interim Dean at the University of Baltimore School of Law; and, author of Race Law and Ghosts of Jim Crow
QUESTIONS
SEGMENT ONE
- Dianne, as a former Black woman State Senator and a nation advocate, how would you summarize last week’s Senate Judiciary Hearing?
- What do you think will be the lasting impact of the behavior of the “Gang of Five”?
- How do you think Black women are being affected overall by these hearings?
SEGMENT TWO
- Luke, You were part of the legal team that represented Prof. Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas Hearings. What has been the consequence of the legacy of the failure of the Senate Judiciary Committee during that confirmation?
- How has Judge Clarence Thomas influenced the decisions of the Supreme Court since his confirmation?
- What do you think of the ethical conflicts that have been lodged against Justice Thomas based on his wife’s, Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, actions to subvert the 2020 election results?
SEGMENTS THREE & FOUR
- Prof. Higginbotham, what were your top lines from last week’s confirmation hearings and the actions of the “Gang of Five”?
- Was the failure of the 2009 Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee to avoid the racist questioning of Judge Sonia Sotomayor a precedence for Sen. Durban’s failure to protect Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson?
- What was the impact of the absence of any Black women Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee?
- By attacking Judge Brown Jackson as being “soft on crime”, besides the use of this racial stereotype, how will this affect any future nominees who were public defenders or who are unwilling to compromise on telling the truth about our racist criminal justice system?
- What is your opinion on the impact of Sen. Cory Booker’s “Harbinger of Hope” sermonette lauding Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson?
- What was your reaction to seeing the recent full-page ad in the New York Times signed by 100’s of Black women supporting the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Jackson Brown?
Daryl, please describe TJC’s new statement.
- What else can be done to expose and confront the racist antics of the Gang of Five?
- What do you think will be the lasting impact of the Judge Jackson Brown Confirmation Hearings?
- How can our listeners get involved?