Biden SC appointment is in
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If Biden causes that much angst for a non-supporter, image the sense of embarrassment and chagrin the supporters must feel..
Just kidding...
if Wall St gives her a thumbs down, she won't get seated any more than Garland did.
and Wall St doesn't care squat about race or sex or abortion, but they care a heck of a lot about everything economic and govt powers. (of which they now are the primary govt power. thanks SCOTUS).
and Wall St doesn't care squat about race or sex or abortion, but they care a heck of a lot about everything economic and govt powers. (of which they now are the primary govt power. thanks SCOTUS).
we'll see.
Wall St controls the senate. not the Dems or Pubs.
if Wall St doesn't seat her, she doesn't get seated.
obviously analytical thinking isn't your strong suit.
and obviously that would be a massive understatement of epic proportion.
ie, you can't really be this dumb can you?????
Then explain it to my ignorant ass, bitch.
Igot’s using a literary technique known as stream of pissiness.
She's in the kitchen (barefoot) where she belongs.
Maybe she can stop Black on Black killings! Much like Black Mayors have cleaned up their Cities.
I’d like to know how many dicks Tucker Carlson keeps in his mouth at night to handle his sleep apnea.
LOL I didn't watch the clip but she went to Harvard and Harvard Law. Condemn her on ideology, but trying to assail her education/testing is rich with her pedigree and his Bach from Trinity College
I am somewhat surprised he has enough sponsors to continue. We all have different opinions and political ideology, but some behavior is just plain wrong.
Ratings. His show probably beats all the news competition combined
I have to wonder if he even believes the words coming out of his mouth at this point (same with Hannity and O'Donnell on MSNBC). Like, unless his wife is some kind of true believer, what kind of looks does she give him when he walks through the door.
I want to know why someone would block his IP address and not his username? If someone did not want him posting it seems they would block the account.
Any relationship between legal education pedigree and a sound legal mind is purely coincidental. I’m old enough to remember someone who was #1 at Harvard and editor of the Harvard Law Review, but couldn’t understand a SCOTUS opinion, didn’t understand basic rules of statutory construction, and didn’t understand the conflict of laws principles, was a legal educator but never escaped “lecturer” status and was never published.
You and Hickory seem to have some obsession with dicks.
You might want to see a psychiatrist about that.
My dad was maintenance supervisor at a nursing home. One of the dishwashers was a Harvard Law School grad who was so socially awkward, it's all the work he could find.
My ex-cousin-in-law had a perfect LSAT score and graduated with some kind of honors from IUPUI law school. He could never find a job after law school and is now working for Amazon in Logistics.
I also know a guy at IU who barely skated by undergrad and went to law school and is now rolling in cash as one of those TV lawyers.
You just never know.....
I agree with Tucker on a lot of things, but want to throw my remote at the TV when he talks about Ukraine and Russia.
His reasoning is why Hitler thought he could get away with trying to conquer the world. Anyone who thinks Europe and Asia aren't our problems needs to study some history.
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I don't know. I suspect there's some evidence/correlation between legal education pedigree and understanding/knowledge of law. Law is a convoluted thing. I know next to nothing about appellate work and being on an appeals court. But if she got through Harvard; scored high enough on an LSAT to get into Harvard, which has high scores; and graduated from Harvard law I trust she has the academics down. I trust she could answer/understand the dormant commerce clause inside and out. And I could be wrong but I suspect that "academic" mind is more applicable to the SCOTUS than a practice-oriented mind.
You know Willie Gary went to North Carolina Central. I believe he went to Shaw University for undergrad. I don't think Willie has the "academic mind" suitable for a SCOTUS seat. But if I had cancer from fertilizer there are few lawyers on the planet I'd rather have stand in front of a jury and explain what it's done to my life than Willie in his prime. I'd certainly rather have him than Brown Jackson and her Harvard pedigree. "Legal minds" and their applications aren't all the same.
So my hungover, long-winded answer is that I do believe legal education pedigree is likely linked to being better at certain areas of the law; one of which is appellate work - I think.
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No, she is not a “solid” jurist. She is squishy as hell. She is driven by trendy politics, not solid law. She was reversed often because her ideology takes priority over the law. During his confirmation hearings, Gorsuch clearly said that there are times when a justice must issue a ruling he personally disagrees with because the law is otherwise. If I was a senator questioning Jackson I’d drill down on that point until it hurt. I don’t think Jackson could point to a single example where she felt legally bound to issue an order she disagreed with.
She is smart and capable, so she will be able to make ideology look like law. But make no mistake, on the living constitution /originalist continuum she will extend the limit of changing the law and constitution from the bench.
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All lawyers know good judges, bad judges, good lawyers, bad lawyers and I’ve never seen a cause and effect relationship between credentials and quality. I am acquainted with a valedictorian and Harvard Law graduate from my HS. He taught at a law school without that reputation or status. He often said the students at the school he taught at received a better education than Harvard students. The main reason was class size and student participation.
If you had an abstruse legal question of law I would bet on ten Harvard law grads providing better answers/understanding than ten Ave Maria grads. As a generalization. The academic/knowledge/skills required and demonstrated to negotiate their way through Harvard would serve them better in understanding abstruse legal questions imo. So yes in that arena I suspect there's a greater likelihood of the Harvard grads having "stronger" legal minds
As a gross generalization, I think experienced and good trial lawyers make better judges, including at the appellate level. I have anecdotal examples at the state level in Colorado. Gorsuch is the best example on SCOTUS. “Academics” and other non -lawyer lawyers on SCOTUS see obscure legal questions as a law review article instead of a simple succinct ruling about a narrow issue.
One thing I admired about RBG, even though I thought she had other shortcomings, was her clear writing. I think writing is a window to one’s mind.
Judges are kind of a funny thing. I used to hold them in high regard career-wise until I knew better. I would have to say (and it's been a while) I genuinely loved all but one of the judges I encountered at the circuit level. Really good, down to Earth people that were fun to drink with. But almost every single one of them were "saved" by becoming a judge. They had failed, shitty practices and/or they were totally exhausted from the grind and the chase and happy to have a steady $130k a year income w/ benes.
Appellate are often a different story
TIL "abstruse" is a word. And one which I will use forever more to sound smarter than I am.
Thanks, internet.
Two of my favorite state trial judges had successful private practices and became judges about half-way through their careers. For many judges though the biggest change in going on the bench is their hat size.
Thanks for looking it up. I thought it was a typo for “obtuse”.
We've seen this playbook before. It's the Obama birth certificate nonsense all over again. The Dog whistle at this point is a blaring foghorn...
The MO has evolved to the point where they fish for anything that sticks and then when something does stick they go with it unless they come up with something that sticks harder and better.
