Disagree on Deval Patrick. Given the partisanship of Congress, which requires searching judicial inquiry, only the squeaky clean pass. Patrick's abused funds to buy himself a Cadillac , put his w...
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Justice Obama ... of course. I wonder if he'd take it. And David Stras: I assume Goldstein is reacting to the https://www.scotusblog.com/2007/07/the-democratic-not-so-short-list/#comment-11640
Many past justices have have some of the life experiences Daniel Thomas suggests. At least one lawyer has stated elsewhere that such sentiments are totally appropriate, the appellate judge model ...
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that assumes that the meaning of a statute is conditional on the life experiences of the jurist Does legal meaning exist in an ideal plane?
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I don't honestly know which is more horrifying, Tom's list of potential nominees, or Daniel's eye-popping suggestions (perhaps the most telling and risible being the theory that "the court has be...
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Daniel- I found someone who meets your profile- http://new.stjohns.edu/academics/graduate/law/faculty/profiles/Joseph
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I know that I may get some flack for this comment but personally I would like to see some SCJs whose primary set of life experiences are not in the field of law. My own perspective is that, left ...
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Tom, By the way, I think you are right that if Hillary Clinton wins, the first nominee would be Kim Wardlaw. My money on the second, though, would be Merrick Garland, but my guess is not any bett...
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Then again, a relevant consideration is "How aggressively is the nominee going to articulate a coherent liberal jurisprudence?" Finding a lefty version of Scalia to blast the right and get opinio...
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Eliot Spitzer would face serious opposition to his confirmation.
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