Posted on 05/03/2022 12:06:11 AM PDT by PghBaldy
Harvard law professor and constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe offered a spirited endorsement of Elena Kagan in a 2009 memo that noted the law school dean had the ability to persuade “a bunch of prima donnas to see things her way.”
The memo (PDF), leaked to conservative blogger Ed Whelan, bluntly advised against the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to fill the seat of retiring Justice David H. Souter, a recommendation ignored by President Obama. The New York Times Caucus blog, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post all have stories.
Tribe wrote that Kagan would be better able to persuade swing voter Justice Anthony M. Kennedy to adopt liberal positions than Sotomayor, who didn’t have Kagan’s intellectual heft. “Bluntly put, she’s not as smart as she seems to think she is, and her reputation for being something of a bully could well make her liberal impulses backfire and simply add to the firepower of the Roberts/Alito/Scalia/Thomas wing of the court,” Tribe wrote in his criticism of Sotomayor.
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This is from 2010. I should be asleep but dog woke me...
I remember that... Sotomayor vs Intelligence
Mayhe its time to remove the supreme court.
If they can’t stop acting lawless.
Me too! I have two who collaborated in waking me up. Now I'm awake and reading FR, while they are curled up asleep beside me.
Ah, the old Jack Ryan Canary Trap
I mean install an actual lawful court.
1. Justices write their own opinions.
2. They don’t get shared with anyone until they are released to the public with the court’s decision in a case.
The justices vote and someone is selected to write the majority opinion. That justice drafts the opinion and shares it with at least the other ones in the majority, maybe all the justices, until the opinion satisfies enough that a majority subscribes their names to it. Sometimes a majority voting justice will concur with the opinion but add a personal opinion to make additional point(s). Dissenting justices write their own opinion and go through the same process, sharing it with other dissenters at least, and maybe all the justices. If you read Supreme decisions, it is common to see concurring opinion address the dissenting opinion points and dissenting opinions commenting on the majority decision points.
And if it was Sotomayor who leaked the draft she ought to be impeached.
A DUMBASS Latinex BULLY!
It has to be a LEFTY because no Conservative would leak to Politico an arm of the DEMOCRATS!
Agreed but whomever leaked it will probably claim it was a clerk who did it. And it might have been. Clerks do a lot of the drafting of opinions.
But the Wide Latina is Wide.
Old canine strategy...Wake human and while he’s strirring move over into his “warm spot”...My furry buddies play that game every night...
They start at the foot of my king size bed and by middle of night I’m displaced by a couple of 6# yorkiepoos...
Crafty little rascals...I’m sure they’re playin me...
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