We watch as the country honors its 39th President.
Vice President Harris Speaks About Former President Carter at the Capitol
Carter’s funeral will be televised by multiple networks and cable channels that will offer special coverage. Here is the schedule for Carter’s funeral (all times EST and subject to change):
8:45 a.m.: The Carter family departs from Blair House via motorcade.
9 a.m.: Departure ceremony from the U.S. Capitol.
9:15 a.m.: Motorcade leaves for the Washington National Cathedral.
9:30 a.m.: Carter’s body and family members arrive at the Washington National Cathedral.
9:55 a.m.: Carter’s body is brought into the cathedral during a brief arrival ceremony.
10 a.m.: National funeral service begins.
11 a.m.: Departure from Washington National Cathedral.
11:15 a.m.: Motorcade leaves for Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.
11:45 a.m.: Carter’s body and family members arrive at Joint Base Andrews and board Special Air Mission 39.
12:15 p.m.: Special Air Mission 39 leaves for Lawson Army Airfield at Fort Moore, Georgia.
2 p.m.: Special Air Mission 39 arrives at Lawson Army Airfield and Carter’s casket is transferred to a hearse.
2:30 p.m.: Motorcade departs for Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia.
3:30 p.m.: Arrival ceremony at Maranatha Baptist Church
3:45 p.m.: Private funeral service.
4:30 p.m.: Departure from Maranatha Baptist Church.
4:45 p.m.: Family members travel with the late president by motorcade through downtown Plains. The public is invited to line the motorcade route as his remains are carried through his hometown.
5:20 p.m.: The motorcade arrives at Carter’s residence for a private burial service, with a special “missing man” formation flyover conducted by the U.S. Navy in honor of the former president’s naval service and time as commander in chief.As is customary, U.S. flags will remain at half-staff through sunset on Tuesday, Jan. 28, to honor Carter. Flags fly at half-staff for 30 days from the death of a sitting or former president under a 1954 proclamation signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
His arrival through the Lying in State at the U.S. Capitol
Learned a lot about President Carter’s legacy from his Presidency. This is one of his little known and underappreciated accomplishments.
Carter’s Quiet Revolution
President Jimmy Carter’s diversification of the judiciary is one of the most important and least acknowledged achievements in presidential history. And it’s in danger.
By Mark Joseph Stern
July 14, 20197:00 PM
Jimmy Carter died on Sunday. In 2019, Mark Joseph Stern analyzed his greatest accomplishment as president: diversifying the federal judiciary. That article is reprinted below with minor updates.
In December 1976, one month before beginning his single term as president, Jimmy Carter hosted some of the most preeminent civil rights figures and black leaders in the country at the stately governor’s mansion in Atlanta. Rep. Andrew Young, the Atlanta congressman and former executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was there to accept a position as ambassador to the United Nations. Judge Frank M. Johnson, a white federal judge whose landmark rulings helped end public segregation throughout the South, met with Carter to discuss a top role in the Department of Justice. Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., also paid the president-elect a visit.
Then there was Democratic Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi. Eastland, whose name has returned to the news in 2019 following controversial comments by Joe Biden, had little in common with the civil rights leaders who visited Carter that week. Unapologetic about his white supremacist views, Eastland had once called school integration “a program designed to mongrelize the Anglo-Saxon race.” Carter, for his part, had been hoping to establish a level of diversity in his administration never before achieved by an American president. He also intended to diversify the federal judiciary. But Eastland was the powerful chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and by the traditions of that time, individual senators—backed by Eastland’s gavel—directly controlled who was nominated to the federal bench. Carter hadn’t invited Eastland to Atlanta for a job: He was asking him to relinquish this enormous power, and to do it for the sake of integrating the nation’s judgeships.
Eastland proved surprisingly receptive. (It’s possible the senator may not have recognized how serious Carter’s commitment to diversity was; in a bit of political maneuvering, Carter had campaigned against school busing but would enforce it while in office, creating the Department of Education in 1979 in part to focus on civil rights.) Eastland said he was proud to see a southerner in the White House and intended to do whatever he could to make Carter’s presidency a success. If that included allowing the new president to put some nontraditional judges on the bench, so be it.
The linchpin of Carter’s plan to revolutionize and diversify the judiciary depended on the creation of a brand-new federal commission to pick appeals court judges, wresting the power to make judicial nominations away from individual senators. Eastland told Carter he would endorse the commission and its power to select nominees at the appeals level. His one caveat: He couldn’t force his fellow senators to surrender their authority to select district court judges, a jealously guarded patronage system.
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The outcome transformed the judiciary for decades—and set a new precedent for the elevation of diverse nominees. When Carter took office, just eight women had ever been appointed to one of the 500 federal judgeships in the country. (For the purposes of this article, I’m referring to the district courts, appellate courts, and the Supreme Court.) Carter appointed 40 women, including eight women of color. Similarly, before Carter, just 31 people of color had been confirmed to federal courts, often over Eastland’s strenuous disapproval. The peanut farmer from Plains appointed 57 minorities to the judiciary. (He also had more robes to fill: A 1978 bill expanded the federal judiciary by 33 percent, or 152 seats.)
At Jennifer Hudson’s talk show, her staff lines up and does a song and dance for every guest as they go down their own personal ‘ Soul Train’ line.
This guest is the star of Squid Games. He’s Korean.
They sang to him IN KOREAN.
The video, when he realizes it, is awesome.
Justin (@__ajga) posted at 9:53 AM on Wed, Jan 08, 2025:
His face when he realised they was speaking Korean warmed my heart.
(https://x.com/__ajga/status/1877020763141636242?t=dauRP1Z_tbJPeny3b5iJGQ&s=03)
ProPublica (@propublica) posted at 6:00 AM on Thu, Jan 09, 2025:
Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin is asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to throw out roughly 60,000 ballots — an unprecedented request based on a theory that has been dismissed by both the state election board and a federal judge.
https://t.co/7y96y84bs2
(https://x.com/propublica/status/1877324478142713947?t=bM-XZ2jdJKlq9W8cR7oFhA&s=03)
Dr. Allison Wiltz (@queenie4rmnola) posted at 9:48 AM on Wed, Jan 08, 2025:
The Crown Act is useless if schools still get to discriminate against students wearing dreadlocks. Civil rights protections are only as strong as the will to enforce them.
(https://x.com/queenie4rmnola/status/1877019530817380656?t=w0XLfuDJQLScvS3Ua72OPA&s=03)
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) posted at 6:53 AM on Thu, Jan 09, 2025:
The idea that everything would be fine if only white men ran the world is a weak, short-sighted argument—a fantasy clung to by insecure men who can’t handle reality.
DEI has become the bogeyman for those who believe that if I’m gaining, they must be losing. In reality, DEI simply ensures women and BIPOC are looked at fairly in addition to white men.
Blaming our fires or disasters on DEI is not only ignorant but vile. https://t.co/Zi1ZHP67nA
(https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/1877337912972554441?t=cMHdOpA7dncOpmXh_Nv_Rg&s=03)
🔥Harry Potter Resists Fascism🔥 (@HarryPotterMAGE) posted at 6:29 AM on Thu, Jan 09, 2025:
READ #TheJackSmithReport HERE: 👇🏻
Trump laid the groundwork to try to overturn the 2020 election even before he lost, knowingly pushed false claims of voter fraud and “resorted to crimes” in his failed bid to cling to power.
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
https://t.co/DQ85pSgcJD
(https://x.com/HarryPotterMAGE/status/1877331874973921501?t=cLD8KTQLzUe25eg3ooS75A&s=03)
🪷 ℳ𝓈𝒢𝓇𝓊𝓂𝓅𝓎ℬ𝓊𝓃𝓃𝓎 🪷 (@msgrumpybunny) posted at 3:08 AM on Thu, Jan 09, 2025:
Irony is not dead.
Billionaire-CEO of Paramount Property Tax Appeal, whose company reduces property and business taxes of his clients, effectively reducing state revenue, is screaming because the consequences of his own efforts impacted him personally. Whoopsie.
(https://x.com/msgrumpybunny/status/1877281313989841001?t=ocZhBh8BVY_ZJs09ke5d0g&s=03)
Tiff4Mahogany_44 🇺🇸 NATO MEMBER (@tiff4mahogany) posted at 6:52 AM on Thu, Jan 09, 2025:
People who love Trump don’t even know what Taiwan is.
Stop fucking lying.
I hate China and I hate Trump.
(https://x.com/tiff4mahogany/status/1877337774409302513?t=DEMuC22Jr0qapUyU4s1F2Q&s=03)
Shaun Rein (@shaunrein) posted at 5:09 PM on Tue, Jan 07, 2025:
The very people who say China is evil for saying it will reunify with Taiwan (even though majority of world adhere to one China policy) are supporting Trump’s demands under military threat that Greenland, Panama Canal be taken over by the US…and Canada become a 51st state
(https://x.com/shaunrein/status/1876768272013779041?t=t0ZfpnAV-XNViHBS6BCFHQ&s=03)
Drew Comments (@sjs856) posted at 3:23 AM on Thu, Jan 09, 2025:
The consent decree he’s referencing ended 22 years ago. White privilege is graduating with a 1.7 GPA and given the benefit of the doubt to be intelligent enough to take an LAFD entrance exam. Only test he should’ve taken w that GPA was the ASVAB. This is ridiculous. https://t.co/lZiu8BMdvs
(https://x.com/sjs856/status/1877285069988999502?t=STe068ABL4rg9BKx5nBAIw&s=03)
Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) posted at 8:16 PM on Wed, Jan 08, 2025:
Black ppl being blamed for unimaginable tragedy, while they along with their neighbors, are actively losing everything is peak 2025.
@elonmusk co-signing this says everything you need to know about him.
I pray for everyone going through this tragedy. Reach out to all of your loved ones.
I’m going to pray for Matt, too. His ignorance is the true cancer.
(https://x.com/Bakari_Sellers/status/1877177691792617903?t=vP8-XwGg-qgLwBjA5e4SNg&s=03)
Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) posted at 7:46 AM on Thu, Jan 09, 2025:
As @Steve_Vladeck writes, there is no lawful basis for SCOTUS to halt Trump’s NY sentencing. Any appeal must wait final judgment. Let’s see if the Court is up to the job they swore to do.
https://t.co/G2FJQhBCsC
(https://x.com/BarbMcQuade/status/1877351197964706247?t=IAk1_tzwpxRDDnw7N3KTvg&s=03)
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 7:44 AM on Thu, Jan 09, 2025:
if Joe Biden did anything other than offer all federal assistance when a natural disaster struck a “red” state, the media would have had a week-long meltdown excoriating him for not being ~ presidential ~ but Trump, they’re like “dude does things his own way, whatcha gonna do” 🙃
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1877350701904396570?t=gDrosO3gDu_RzNXNBhkqYA&s=03)
Rep. Terri A. Sewell (@RepTerriSewell) posted at 1:33 PM on Wed, Jan 08, 2025:
1/ Today I became the first Black woman to serve in subcommittee leadership on the House Ways and Means Committee since it was established in 1789. I am honored to have been selected by my Democratic colleagues to lead our work as Ranking Member of the Oversight Subcommittee. https://t.co/yTGvGdzxRr
(https://x.com/RepTerriSewell/status/1877076167129251901?t=GdMfNy24vdvkxwi4c2A-zQ&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 7:49 AM on Thu, Jan 09, 2025:
If Trump were president now, he’d be using the wildfires to extort Gavin Newsom and CA, and everyone on here knows it.
As Nicole Hemmer notes on the pod, he has a history of this, and this impulse is deeply rooted on the right.
Check out our exchange:
https://t.co/3u7RUTpl4I https://t.co/jp7HX0YgqL
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1877352081771598069?t=I2B8AWHFHbH98xFSJGIjCQ&s=03)
stacy (@stacycay) posted at 6:05 PM on Wed, Jan 08, 2025:
The Supreme Court will almost undoubtedly overturn Obergefell, which is the ruling that protects gay marriage federally.
However, Democrats in 22 passed a law to require red states to honor gay marriages in blue states if this happens.
The parties aren’t the same. It matters.
(https://x.com/stacycay/status/1877144675439558708?t=wnh7y7-VFSRgFQjxLASzkQ&s=03)
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊