Trae Crowder, aka “The Liberal Redneck” is very quickly becoming this site’s favorite YouTuber. There is something so wonderfully refreshing about hearing a white, southern-accented, southern sensible, and southern-cultured, guy, make every single good point we’ve ever managed to make on this site and several more. He is also funny, something we, too, aspire to from time to time.

Today’s video on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearings might be his finest work yet, it is art, social commentary, comedy, and scholarship, which is one hell of a tough mix to pull off. We aren’t going to delay this much except to emphasize one portion that we’ve heard from Crowder but not enough from other sources. Yes, it is absolutely critical to have a black woman, with a black woman’s unique experiences on the SCOTUS. But just as important – and we mean that, it is JUST as important, to have someone who has served as a public defender on the Supreme Court, a first.

Public defenders are the attorneys whose offices are always purposefully underfunded and thus are overworked, and yet stare down the power of the almighty government and fight back, under the exact same laws available to the prosecutor, but do so on the side of the accused, some of them wrongly accused, many over-charged.

Having said that, we’re playing the video – if for no other reason than to hear, “We don’t care if you pray to Jesus for more touchdowns than the other team” (They are not supposed to pray before public school events like football games in the south, but they do anyway). We care about… and he lists off a dozen more important things that Brown-Jackson was not asked about.

It is probably a good idea to bookmark this guy and sign up to get his new ones (near-daily) because they are far too good to miss.

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