Posted on 07/01/2018 9:03:59 AM PDT by House Atreides
There has been a lot of discussion on the possibility of Trump selecting Judge Barrett as his nominee for the current SCOTUS vacancy. Surprisingly (to me anyhow) there has been a lot of opposition to her expressed here by FReepers with a significant portion because she is a woman and thus viewed as prone to “evolve”. Many FReepers who I know to be women are among those opposed to her because of the view that women Justices are subject to this “evolving”.
Others oppose her because of concern that they don’t know much about her. If you go to the linked site, you may learn some more about her and help fill in some gaps.
She and his pope are miles apart on philosophy and the law. The pope grew up in a socialist country and all his comments and writings reflect his background. I don’t think there’s any risk.
I’m sure that she is a nice person, but not my choice for a SC judge.
“Which carries the greater weight.......the Constitution or the Pope?”
Bigotry much?
Pretty sure she is the one
Hard to imagine why an ostensible conservative (such as thyself) on a conservative web site (such as this one) would snark at a married Christian woman using her maiden name and her husband’s name—without a hyohen—in the traditional manner. Is “quaint” some kind of a compliment, in your mind? You’d prefer a feminist who wouldn’t use her husband’s name?
Why the sneering? You are either very young, born after the time when most people got married heterosexually and the woman took the man's name for the sake of the children's sense of family unity; or you've never lived in a big city or been a member of a large virtual community, where there might be 12 people named "Amy Barrett"—hence, a differentiating middle name.
Many family surnames are extremely common, like Smith or Brown, and most European-descended first names are also common because they are cultural or Biblical, like John, Matthew, etc. Therefore, middle names are a practical measure.
“Why the sneering? You are either very young, born after the time when most people got married heterosexually and the woman took the man’s name for the sake of the children’s sense of family unity; or you’ve never lived in a big city or been a member of a large virtual community, where there might be 12 people named “Amy Barrett”—hence, a differentiating middle name.”
Well, I’m nearing my 78th birthday, I was raised in a nuclear family with Christian values. I’ve been married for almost 52 years to the same woman and we have together successfully raised three children who are now grown and have their own families. So I don get your comment. If most of us can get along with two names and be differentiated sufficiently, without the need to use our middle names, I fail to see why a Federal Judge needs any additional descriptors. The do it because it’s “customary,” not that it really adds any value to them or what they do. It is a personal choice that I find to be self-serving.
And this is the hill you want to die on? Okay.
“And this is the hill you want to die on? Okay.”
It was simply an OBSERVATION! There’s no hill involved. Quite frankly, I was surprised at your post as you are usually a good read. But I guess you have a hangup with people using middle names. I learn something every day.
I LIKE her!
I also remember her facial expression as Diane Feinstein accused her of being too deep in the dogma of the Church. She was obviously quite shocked to realize that a sitting Senator could be so ignorant regarding what the Constitution has to say about that.
We should all be praying that our God in heaven guides the decision.
“Now you can all accuse me of being a homer for a domer,”
You probably are aware of this, but Tom Hardiman has his undergrad degree from Notre Dame. His law degree is from Georgetown Law.
I think it was ….”that’s a problem for me.”
THIS deserves repeating:
“It’s pretty clear there are some Freepers who don’t like her and question her judicial philosophy simply because she’s Catholic! The late Antonin Scalia was and Justice Thomas is a Catholic!”
Thank you dowcaet for posting this. Most people do not understand that practicing Catholics understand the prudence and wisdom of borders, and the need to control the flow of immigrants. It is the ‘Cafeteria’ Catholics who tend to be progressive(oxymoron) particularly in the area of politics these days. ....and yes, that includes some pitiful clerics who choose wrongly as well. Our Church is quite divided in many of these areas today. She is going through her own PASSION at present and we pray for the grace to suffer through it with her, knowing that God has a plan to cleanse her.
TRULY faithful Catholics will NOT ignore what the Pope says. We will prayerfully consider his words. We are not required, however, to agree with everything he gives voice to.
“...I don’t know what other means we have of even trying to ascertain their position, lacking a track record.”
There is plenty of material here if you are interested:
https://works.bepress.com/amy_barrett/
By the way, she’s a great originalist! ;-)
LoL. I suppose you don’t know that there are family and/or ethnic traditions of naming children in this way? Actually, there are many varied reasons that people either choose to do this...or it is done for them.
(Chuckling...) This sounds like something Laz would say.
As explained, since there are hundreds of people with the common name "Amy Barrett", possibly many of whom are also lawyers, it is only logical that any professional in a similar situation would use a device to differentiate her- or himself from all the others, for online search purposes at the very least; and to avoid mistaken identity and fake news.
The derogatory terms you and the other poster used regarding this widely employed idenification practice were "self-aggrandizing", "self-serving" and "hang-up." One suspects you may not have used such taunts about a male SCOTUS candidate. Sixteen presidents out of 45 used a middle name or middle initial.
These are some familiar three-names from history, including a recent male SC Justice:
John Paul Stevens
John Foster Dulles
James Fenimore Cooper
Alexander Graham Bell
William Henry Harrison
William Jennings Bryan
William Howard Taft
John Paul Jones
Martin Luther King Jr
John Quincy Adams
Norman Vincent Peale
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Frank Lloyd Wright
Catherine Zeta Jones (still awake?)
et cetera
I lived in Spain when I was a kid for a few years and our Spanish neighbor's kids all had names that were 4-6 names long. The oldest girl was named Maria Pilar Manolita Casada de Obregon. A mouthful.
All of the women I ever met with a hyphenated name were liberals.
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