U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Nino Edition

Canon 2 A Judge Should Avoid Impropriety and the Appearance of Impropriety in all Activities.

B Outside Influence A judge should not allow family, social, political, financial, or other relationships to influence judicial conduct or judgment. A judge should neither lend the prestige of the judicial office to advance the private interests of the judge or others nor convey or permit others to convey the impression that they are in a special position to influence the judge. A judge must avoid all impropriety and appearance of impropriety. This prohibition applies to both professional and personal conduct. A judge must expect to be the subject of constant public scrutiny and accept freely and willingly restrictions that might be viewed as burdensome by the ordinary citizen. Because it is not practicable to list all prohibited acts, the prohibition is necessarily cast in general terms that extend to conduct by judges that is harmful although not specifically mentioned in the Code.

you guys are going to shit when you read about Lewis Powell

Chuck is "on the case"

https://splinternews.com/chuck-schumers-crazy-new-scheme-fight-brett-kavanaughs-1827479465

Securocrats are comforted that Kavanaugh's nomination reflects politics as usual. He won't care about mass surveillance or double-tapping Yemeni funerals, so it's fine pic.twitter.com/oB9ORZdi9P

— Jacob (@SilvermanJacob) July 10, 2018

you guys are going to shit when you read about Lewis Powell

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive),

and William Douglas!

https://balkin.blogspot.com/2018/07/brett-kavanaughs-cliches.html

from my perch the intra-conservative disagreements over Kavanaugh that have emerged so far seem very narcissism of small differences.

Conservatives are narcissistic and they are small.

it's fun to think about this argument—that the presidency is a high-wire act of constant work and stress that requires maximal attention—in the context of the current president, who refuses to read his Kidz Korner briefings and plays golf and houses Big Macs in front of the tube https://t.co/Og2ARNKYf0

— John Cook (@johnjcook) July 10, 2018

there is no legal solution to President Manbaby for precisely this reason/legal angle. The only real surefire solution is a political, i.e. congressional, one. Which is why people shouldn't be pinning their hopes on state AGs or Mueller or Stormy Daniels.

AFA has reversed their objections to Kavanaugh; someone got blown i guess

welp

lol:

And a key Republican swing vote, Senator Susan Collins of Maine, quickly signaled just how hard it will be for Democrats to pull any Republicans into the opposition. “When you look at the credentials that Judge Kavanaugh brings to the job, it will be very difficult for anyone to argue that he’s not qualified,” she told reporters.

Sure didn't take long!

hours of careful deliberation, including sleep

hey she's just judging him on the merits (of being a Republican)

tbf this is the second half of Collins' quote

“But there are other issues involving judicial temperament and his political, or rather, his judicial philosophy that also will play into my decision.”

political, or rather judicial

how about that.

love the interactive map at the bottom of this article

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/09/mitch-mcconnell-heckled-louisville-restaurant-again/767148002/

lmao

Chao confronted the protesters saying, "you leave my husband alone. Leave my husband alone."

fuck off Elaine

she should get heckled too. complicit piece of shit

Oh they were yelling at her too

in other news - ratings down! Sad!

An estimated 25.6 million people watched President Trump announce that Brett Kavanaugh will be his second Supreme Court nominee.

That's down from the 32.4 million people who saw Trump's similar prime-time announcement of Neil Gorsuch's nomination last year, the Nielsen company says. Summertime television viewership is generally lighter than in the winter, when Gorsuch was picked.

Fox News Channel had the biggest audience for the announcement, with 6.6 million people. Trump defender Sean Hannity anchored Fox News' coverage of the event.

ABC won among the three broadcast networks. ABC interrupted an episode of "The Bachelorette" for the announcement.

don't they factor out viewers who were already watching and couldn't be bothered to give up on their interrupted programming

controversial opinion -- there is probably not a good reason for any republican to oppose kavanaugh

which is why it won't happen

agreed. neither Collins nor Murkowski are at risk of any negative consequences for voting "yes".

guys, I might vote no

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still don't understand why McConnell hasn't been outed

Would imagine that if one isn’t paying for it or raping children, one is less likely to get one’s spot blown up.

blown, you say

As it were

"qualifications" are trash

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/brett-kavanaughs-qualifications-dont-matter.html

It will be far down the list of concerns with Kavanaugh, but the formalization of the permanent security state is now on the horizon. https://t.co/cYlyGnAfj4

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) July 10, 2018

fourth amendment just isn't Original enough

i'm not a lawyer (are these people?) but if it were my job to come up w a reason the state can read your email whenever it wants i'd prob try to make an argument from public infrastructure-- if you don't want to be unreasonably searched or seized, hide a letter in a box instead of transmitting it over the govt-supported network. (obv real constitutional govt would support both a network and its privacy-- yknow, the post office.) but they 1) can't do that because they don't believe in public anything, including the post office; and 2) don't do that because why would they, there's 60 years of postwar precedent explaining why they can look in the box too if they think it's important.

are internet service providers really "government supported networks" though?

I mean surely less so than the USPS

Absolutely no one will like this, but RBG’s track record of hiring black law clerks (& other staff) is not defensible by any honest person, especially anyone on the left (who would savage these numbers if they were true of Alito) https://t.co/5s3uUlPdvs

— Ian Samuel (@isamuel) July 12, 2018

more data needed

she’s apparently hired one black clerk in her time on the SC

how many clerks overall? i genuinely have no idea. mind you, that does seem pretty bad, and is maybe more interesting than the utterly apples-and-orangey comparison between her circuit court career and, i guess, the entirety of his career overall...?

bearing in mind also that she is thirty years older than he is and enrolled in law school a decade before he was born, and what that implies about the state of the profession and diversity of candidates at these different points in time. i'd love to see a really thorough non-RW article on this! but out of context, from an NRO blogger who used to clerk for Scalia and worked in the GWB DOJ, it feels like a smear job, with a swiftboaty quality since RBG herself faced discrimination in seeking out clerkship work early in her career. obviously that doesn't make it impossible that she could have been racially biased in her hiring - just raises my spidey sense.

sure, I don’t have the data on everyone’s clerks, so maybe it’s premature

but it seems less than ideal

that's a lotta tickets

the classic problem all good baseball-loving americans can definitely relate to and absolutely should NOT question any further https://t.co/Akx14OuwW8 pic.twitter.com/zbHTTZQuBo

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 11, 2018

i do not understand the economics of admission to your yankee 'based ball' games but that seems... suspicious

Na na na, fuck anyone giving the same hiring parameters to a jewish woman who went to law school in the 1950s to a white man who got his JD in 1990.

White men need to feast on themselves before even thinking about it.

lol at the "friends finally paid him back" explanation. like hey guys no really....i know you're good for it anytime but i kinda need the cash right now....