Stephen Breyer to retire at the end of this court session.

[Jimmy Higgins]

I think all the men on the Supreme Court should not be allowed to judge on Roe v Wade because they could get a woman pregnant... and the women can't either because they can get pregnant.

 

[TomC]

I think all the men on the Supreme Court should not be allowed to judge on Roe v Wade because they could get a woman pregnant... and the women can't either because they can get pregnant.

Especially not Gorsuch.
Who knows how many abortions he caused with his drunken frat boy antics.
Tom

 

[laughing dog]

(1) To you, is a person being white in a white majority country sufficient for you to suspect him of being a beneficiary of white privilege?

Yes. I am that person and have been an unwitting beneficiary of white privilege for most of my life, and I see it operating to the benefit of every white person I know.

(2) I went to a big name university that practices legacy admissions, and I'm a legacy. Is that sufficient for you to suspect me of being a beneficiary of legacy admissions?

Yes. No way to be absolutely sure, but … my father went to Yale, was a star rower for them back in the day. So my older brother got in, no questions asked and graduated magma cum laude. I dropped out of high school, but found out later that I had been offered an entry path to Yale WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A GED. No other qualifications than family member alumni.

I wonder how many black or Hispanics were offered any such thing … even as legacy applicants.
But to your question - YES.

So I take it you're agreeing with me that it was unreasonable for Rhea and Jarhyn to impute racism to Derec for having applied the exact same inference rule you're endorsing here?

Why would you think that their imputation is based solely on a single inference rule?

 

[Elixir]

Judge Jackson is about to speak to the Senate.
I bet she won't cry and say she loves beer.

 

[SLD]

Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized 'after experiencing flu-like symptoms'

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, on Friday evening "after experiencing flu-like symptoms," the court's public information office said Sunday evening, but he does not have Covid-19.

www.cnn.com

Coule make for an interesting turn of events suddenly. While I don’t normally wish for the death of a justice, it would be great for Biden to be able to pick a real Ginsburg replacement. Is it too much to hope for a heart attack for Alito? Surely one of those guys isn’t in the best of health.

 

[Elixir]

Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized 'after experiencing flu-like symptoms'

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, on Friday evening "after experiencing flu-like symptoms," the court's public information office said Sunday evening, but he does not have Covid-19.

www.cnn.com

Coule make for an interesting turn of events suddenly. While I don’t normally wish for the death of a justice, it would be great for Biden to be able to pick a real Ginsburg replacement. Is it too much to hope for a heart attack for Alito? Surely one of those guys isn’t in the best of health.

I’m sure there are already off-the-shelf conspiracy theories ready to go, should anything happen to a conservative justice. Even if it’s a lightning strike in full public view.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized 'after experiencing flu-like symptoms'

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, on Friday evening "after experiencing flu-like symptoms," the court's public information office said Sunday evening, but he does not have Covid-19.

www.cnn.com

Coule make for an interesting turn of events suddenly. While I don’t normally wish for the death of a justice, it would be great for Biden to be able to pick a real Ginsburg replacement. Is it too much to hope for a heart attack for Alito? Surely one of those guys isn’t in the best of health.

Without wishing Death, Thomas may want to 'spend more time with his family' in the future, what with his wife being an insurrectionist cheerleader.
Someone could trace the money that suddenly paid off Kavenaugh's debts and inspire him to concentrate on family, too.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized 'after experiencing flu-like symptoms'

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, on Friday evening "after experiencing flu-like symptoms," the court's public information office said Sunday evening, but he does not have Covid-19.

www.cnn.com

Coule make for an interesting turn of events suddenly. While I don’t normally wish for the death of a justice, it would be great for Biden to be able to pick a real Ginsburg replacement. Is it too much to hope for a heart attack for Alito? Surely one of those guys isn’t in the best of health.

I’m sure there are already off-the-shelf conspiracy theories ready to go, should anything happen to a conservative justice. Even if it’s a lightning strike in full public view.

Heh. You obviously know nothing about Jewish Space Lasers. They're not on the visible spectrum, but they do ionize the air in a column, from the clouds down to the ground, essentially creating a 'short' in the Earth's Electromechanical Field, which discharges in a lightning bolt. So the uneducated think it's 'just lightning.'

 

[Elixir]

So I take it you're agreeing with me that it was unreasonable for Rhea and Jarhyn to impute racism to Derec for having applied the exact same inference rule you're endorsing here?

Why would you think that their imputation is based solely on a single inference rule?

Exactly. Such inference is slightly supportive but insufficient unto itself. The history of the frequency with which such inferences land so easily upon the poster in question, is another matter.

 

[Elixir]

Finally, I'd like to offer your brother my congratulations -- I love the concept of magma cum laude.

:

He always was a rock solid academic

Of course I don't really know what happened at the University level because I never got any letters, never applied and only know what my mother told me more than ten years after the fact.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I'll be looking to see whether Judge Jackson is committed to the Constitution as originally understood.

SCOTUS Justices are expected to both know of... and understand 240ish years of Constitutional law since the Constitution was originally signed off on, especially the Courts precedential takes on most things.

What a dumb ass!

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has raised concerns about Jackson's record on sentencing in child pornography cases. Hawley said on Twitter last week that there is "an alarming pattern when it comes to Judge Jackson's treatment of sex offenders, especially those preying on children."

A CNN review of the material in question shows that Jackson has mostly followed the common judicial sentencing practices in these kinds of cases...

I find this extremely disturbing. It is as if Sen. Hawley wants shorter and more, what I would suppose he would call "lenient" sentencing of these types of offenders. What does Senator Hawley want these types of offenders to have shorter sentences. America does not support these types of criminals and I think Sen. Hawley is out of touch with how America feels about these types of crimes. Why would Sen. Hawley support shorter sentences for these people?! What is Sen. Hawley not telling us about?

 

[Keith&Co.]

I'll be looking to see whether Judge Jackson is committed to the Constitution as originally understood.

SCOTUS Justices are expected to both know of... and understand 240ish years of Constitutional law since the Constitution was originally signed off on, especially the Courts precedential takes on most things.

What a dumb ass!

Originally?
When blacks and women could not vote?
Or by 'original' does he mean 'original plus at least five amendments'? I gotta assume he wants the one granting STATES a right to a well-odered militia (not individuals), and the 5th? So Trump's family can stonewall justice?

That Constitution?

 

[southernhybrid]

Grassley seems a bit senile. SCOTUS needs term limits. Damn! This country is fucked up.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

My position is that it is not “racist” to want a diverse student body, and to value background in addition to grades.
I know that you think it is; that an all-Asian school, or an all-white school should be forced upon an institution that doesn’t want one. And that if an institution values something besides a score on a single test, it must be somehow “unfair”. You’ve said it enough times, I get what you think.

They'll have a diverse student body even if they don't discriminate. It's just it won't be the same distribution as you want. Looking at "background" is about discriminating without appearing to do so by making the decision fuzzy enough to hide the facts. And it favors the rich because they can better afford making an interesting background.

And note that we aren't arguing for an all-Asian or all-white admissions policy, but a colorblind policy.

Interestingly, you claim they are discriminating against Asian students, yet for this year’s freshman class they admitted a higher percentage than before. Go figure.

The two statements are not incompatible.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I find this extremely disturbing. It is as if Sen. Hawley wants shorter and more, what I would suppose he would call "lenient" sentencing of these types of offenders. What does Senator Hawley want these types of offenders to have shorter sentences. America does not support these types of criminals and I think Sen. Hawley is out of touch with how America feels about these types of crimes. Why would Sen. Hawley support shorter sentences for these people?! What is Sen. Hawley not telling us about?

Huh? I read that article as saying Hawley is portraying her as soft on kiddie porn, not that Hawley favors being soft on kiddie porn. It seems to be that the judges disagree with the federal sentencing guidelines--which doesn't surprise me, we have turned it up to 11 when it comes to "kiddie" porn, a lot of which is simply underage, not kiddie in the first place. I can't condone throwing the book at someone for possession of something like a Traci Lords video even though it is technically child pornography.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Grassley seems a bit senile. SCOTUS needs term limits. Damn! This country is fucked up.

Yeah, I'd like to see some sort of periodic mental function test for elected officials and anyone with a lifetime appointment. I'm not sure how to make it fair, though.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Grassley seems a bit senile. SCOTUS needs term limits. Damn! This country is fucked up.

Yeah, I'd like to see some sort of periodic mental function test for elected officials and anyone with a lifetime appointment. I'm not sure how to make it fair, though.

Maybe define communism, socialism, oligarchy.
Match three statements to their source, whether A) The Bible, B) The Constitution, or C) 1984.
Play chess against a pigeon. Anyone still trying to win after, say, six moves is quietly escorted away and given a cookie.

 

[Jarhyn]

Grassley seems a bit senile. SCOTUS needs term limits. Damn! This country is fucked up.

Yeah, I'd like to see some sort of periodic mental function test for elected officials and anyone with a lifetime appointment. I'm not sure how to make it fair, though.

Maybe define communism, socialism, oligarchy.
Match three statements to their source, whether A) The Bible, B) The Constitution, or C) 1984.
Play chess against a pigeon. Anyone still trying to win after, say, six moves is quietly escorted away and given a cookie.

Then, look at RBG. She was sharp as the finest razor I've ever seen right up till she kicked it, all except that oversight where she went out on a limb and lost the seat to bad faith in the Senate ala McTurtle.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I find this extremely disturbing. It is as if Sen. Hawley wants shorter and more, what I would suppose he would call "lenient" sentencing of these types of offenders. What does Senator Hawley want these types of offenders to have shorter sentences. America does not support these types of criminals and I think Sen. Hawley is out of touch with how America feels about these types of crimes. Why would Sen. Hawley support shorter sentences for these people?! What is Sen. Hawley not telling us about?

...Hawley favors being soft on kiddie porn...

Exactly my point.