The SCOTUS Nomination and Confirmation Thread
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striker42
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Wouldn't need 60. If they're court packing they'd change the Senate rules and kill the filibuster (or at least expand the nuclear option to cover all judiciary votes). They're not getting 60 votes but there's a chance they could get 50.
It's not a false trap. It's something a lot of Dems are keeping notably silent about. If it was such a dead issue, why not just come out and say it's a dead issue?
sturg33
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Lol they are deceiving the American people of their plans bc they know it is unpopular.
You know this. Why deny it?
57Brave
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Apoorva Mandavilli
@apoorva_nyc
· 47m
A teacher and two students at the school attended by children of Amy Coney Barrett,
the Supreme Court nominee who brought her family to a Rose Garden celebration
at the White House on Sept. 26, have tested positive for the coronavirus.
@apoorva_nyc
· 47m
A teacher and two students at the school attended by children of Amy Coney Barrett,
the Supreme Court nominee who brought her family to a Rose Garden celebration
at the White House on Sept. 26, have tested positive for the coronavirus.
57Brave
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Vanita Gupta
@vanitaguptaCR
· 13h
AND: Kathryn Mizelle is up for a committee vote Thursday.
She was rated Not Qualified, is only 8 years out of
law school & hasn't tried a case since her admission to the bar.
It’s not just SCOTUS: Senate is working to confirm judges at all
levels instead of passing COVID relief.
an historical parallel ?
The stolen art that found its way to South America after WWII
@vanitaguptaCR
· 13h
AND: Kathryn Mizelle is up for a committee vote Thursday.
She was rated Not Qualified, is only 8 years out of
law school & hasn't tried a case since her admission to the bar.
It’s not just SCOTUS: Senate is working to confirm judges at all
levels instead of passing COVID relief.
an historical parallel ?
The stolen art that found its way to South America after WWII
57Brave
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Elena Kagan (/ˈkeɪɡən/ KAY-gən; born April 28, 1960) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 10, 2010 and has served since August 7, 2010. Kagan is the fourth woman to become a member of the Court.
Kagan was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from Princeton University, the University of Oxford, and Harvard Law School, she clerked for a federal Court of Appeals judge and for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She began her career as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, leaving to serve as Associate White House Counsel, and later as policy adviser under President Bill Clinton. After a nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which expired without action, she became a professor at Harvard Law School and was later named its first female dean.
In 2009, Kagan became the first female Solicitor General of the United States. President Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy arising from the impending retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens. The United States Senate confirmed her nomination by a vote of 63 to 37. She is considered part of the Court's liberal wing but tends to be one of the more moderate justices of that group. She wrote the majority opinion in Cooper v. Harris, a landmark case restricting the permissible uses of race in drawing congressional districts.
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A simple Wiki search spells out her experience
Kagan was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from Princeton University, the University of Oxford, and Harvard Law School, she clerked for a federal Court of Appeals judge and for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She began her career as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, leaving to serve as Associate White House Counsel, and later as policy adviser under President Bill Clinton. After a nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which expired without action, she became a professor at Harvard Law School and was later named its first female dean.
In 2009, Kagan became the first female Solicitor General of the United States. President Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy arising from the impending retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens. The United States Senate confirmed her nomination by a vote of 63 to 37. She is considered part of the Court's liberal wing but tends to be one of the more moderate justices of that group. She wrote the majority opinion in Cooper v. Harris, a landmark case restricting the permissible uses of race in drawing congressional districts.
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A simple Wiki search spells out her experience
Metaphysicist
Not Actually Brian Hunter
This is super dumb. Kagan was solicitor of the US, aka "the 10th justice." If Trump nominated Ted Olsen or Paul Clement, only an idiot would argue they were "unqualified." This Mazelle person appears to be a trial attorney who listed her biggest litigation as when she was an intern in law school. But she did clerk for Pryor/Katsas/Thomas, the FedSoc dream card, and then work as an underling at Jones Day DC (with the FedSoc dream team)!
sturg, a better argument would just be "it doesn't matter, she's probably smart enough to do it." That's at least probably true, unlike the very dumb false equivalency you've drawn. She also is anti-paper money so you guys should probably get married.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Is solicitor general a form of "experience"?
Does this form of "experience" differentiate the two?
Counsel has nothing further your honor.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
I will add that ACB is highly qualified imo. We should be comfortable with a wide range of judicial philosophies on the court and a variety of career paths leading up to appointment to it.
Her religious beliefs are part of who she is. It should be written about by the press. It ought not to affect how Senators assess her appointment.
Her religious beliefs are part of who she is. It should be written about by the press. It ought not to affect how Senators assess her appointment.
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57Brave
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you compared her (Kagan) experience to another nominee (Mizelle) to another court.
The subject being, packing the court by McConnell ramming through people
deemed unqualified but aligned ideologically.