Law Trump replaces Kavanaugh

[EradiatedHaggis]

Good lord, you're stupid. You could have chosen any number of spurious anecdotes.

As if an openly socialist, communist can claim not being a moron...also, you did zero to refute my claim or further your own claim that appointing someone to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals is going to magically increase the orange bad mans handing of power to the satanic cult that is imperialistic capitalist mass murderers that are coming for your equality.

 

[Seano]

My personal knowledge is irrelevant to what Inga's reasoning might have been. Inga has already said that she didn't know whether Rao was a good choice and was talking about the scotus appointees.

Go try to bite someone else's ankles.

Relax, no one was biting your ankles. Seeing as your post was the second post in the thread and nothing of the sort had been said, I assumed you didn't know who she was, likely basing your opinion on the article. I even said in the post that no one would know who she was.

 

[Farmer Br0wn]

Kavanaugh's successful nomination left a void on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Trump moved to fill it today with Neomi Rao, an associate professor at George Mason, who has been one of Trump's key people in his attempts to fight overregulation.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/13/politics/trump-neomi-rao-brett-kavanaugh/index.html

Seems like a bold pick. I think Trump knows a lot of his agenda is dead with Dem control of the House, and so he'll focus on more solid judicial picks to round out his first term.

Thoughts?

10/10 clickbait thread title.

 

[Higus]

It's really crazy when you reflect on how much easier it is to get ahead in law and politics if you just become a right-wing hack. Once you get in to a top school, whether by merit or through a parent's donation like say Jared Kushner or D-Money, all you have to do is join FedSoc and you're automatically propelled past 90% of contemporaries and set on equal footing with the very best candidates who aren't hacks.

Interesting, can you go in more detail?

 

[Trotsky]

As if an openly socialist, communist can claim not being a moron...also, you did zero to refute my claim or further your own claim that appointing someone to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals is going to magically increase the orange bad mans handing of power to the satanic cult that is imperialistic capitalist mass murderers that are coming for your equality.

1. You didn't make a claim. You (correctly) said Google and Apple had become big. I pointed out that this was not very relevant and also misleading based on their market share and anticompetitive abilities.

2. All you need to do is have some passing familiarity with who Rao is and what she stands for to know what danger she poses to New Deal-era regulation. She explicitly opposes the procedure and substance of mid-century regulatory regimes in the areas of labor rights, workers rights and wages, environmental regulation, and product liability.

Now go ahead and derp your way through another forced graphic that you pulled from a chain email.

 

[EradiatedHaggis]

1. You didn't make a claim. You (correctly) said Google and Apple had become big. I pointed out that this was not very relevant and also misleading based on their market share and anticompetitive abilities.

2. All you need to do is have some passing familiarity with who Rao is and what she stands for to know what danger she poses to New Deal-era regulation. She explicitly opposes the procedure and substance of mid-century regulatory regimes in the areas of labor rights, workers rights and wages, environmental regulation, and product liability.

Now go ahead and derp your way through another forced graphic that you pulled from a chain email.

Funny how I didnt make a claim yet you magically reply with a clear attempt to refute something...and did again a second time here...

Let the socialist communist level of idiocy commence with yet another lame reply while I drink your tears.

 

[splendica]

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

My personal knowledge is irrelevant to what Inga's reasoning might have been. Inga has already said that she didn't know whether Rao was a good choice and was talking about the scotus appointees.

Yeah, I've read a few opinions of people who think she's good and one of a person who doesn't. I never heard of her prior to today personally.

I thought it was noteworthy that Trump seems to be moving quickly with nominations. I think @Ripskater is speaking for a lot of people when he earlier commented that judicial picks is why he voted for Trump. Trump himself may be well aware fo this, and since he's certainly not getting a wall I think he's likely to be very busy filling judicial appointments.

 

[Lord Coke]

Kavanaugh's successful nomination left a void on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Trump moved to fill it today with Neomi Rao, an associate professor at George Mason, who has been one of Trump's key people in his attempts to fight overregulation.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/13/politics/trump-neomi-rao-brett-kavanaugh/index.html

Seems like a bold pick. I think Trump knows a lot of his agenda is dead with Dem control of the House, and so he'll focus on more solid judicial picks to round out his first term.

Thoughts?

The president's commitment to diversity really is inspiring.

 

[Jack V Savage]

That's a good point. I was thinking of science, and how the false presumption that experts on either side of an issue are necessarily equal can be found in many scientific policy discussions like teaching evolution/creationism, climate change denial, vaccines causing autism, etc. The mere fact that you have a position that can be profitable or otherwise beneficial to someone else, and you have some basic qualifications, puts

You got cut off, but, yeah, biology and climate science are other fields where someone who has decent credentials and no scruples can get prestigious and high-paying jobs by telling right-wingers what they want to hear. Also journalism, of course. In all of them, there's no equivalent way to jump the line by selling out on the left.

 

[Lord Coke]

You got cut off, but, yeah, biology and climate science are other fields where someone who has decent credentials and no scruples can get prestigious and high-paying jobs by telling right-wingers what they want to hear. Also journalism, of course. In all of them, there's no equivalent way to jump the line by selling out on the left.

The law swings heavily left. I keep my mouth shut about what I actually do when I have to go to any bar functions. If I say anything I mention my work on behalf of the homeless or my 1a work. Unfortunately for me my entire federal litigation history is there at a click of a button.
Liberal attorneys have all the bar associations, inns of court and numerous groups like the American Constitution Society to get help from.
Guys like me that have spent the past decade curbing misconduct by the ATF get a cold shoulder there if we out ourselves. So it is only natural that conservative attorneys go to a organization that is out of the mainstream when the mainstream swings heavily left

 

[Quipling]

Depends on if you believe in there being any sort of comeuppance in the universe.

Souter got appointed because of a mistaken belief that he was kinda conservative.

Interesting, can you go in more detail?

Top law school graduates lean liberal or left. Even relatively conservative top law schools, like Chicago and Virginia, have a more liberal-than-not student body, and this is reflected in terms of the top candidates looking for positions. There are still conservatives (#3 in my class was one), but they're less common.

Some (not all, but some) judges prefer clerks that align with their political beliefs.

So, if a judge prefers conservative clerks with elite credentials, he's going to have a much smaller pool of competition than a judge who prefers liberals or a judge who doesn't care. Makes it easier to get the position. You don't have as many people competing for it.

Fwiw, Rao clerked for Wilkinson, a conservative judge, but not one who limits his clerks to conservatives. He also doesn't seem to care too much if his clerks are members of Fed Soc. (Ironically, his gadfly, Judge Doumar, can be described in the same way).

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

I used to like the Penguins back when Lemieux and Jagr played together. I liked those dirty Samuelsson brothers as well. But in the Crosby era I don't like them much for some reason. I mean, Crosby is clearly excellent, but he irritates me.

 

[Jack V Savage]

The law swings heavily left. I keep my mouth shut about what I actually do when I have to go to any bar functions. If I say anything I mention my work on behalf of the homeless or my 1a work. Unfortunately for me my entire federal litigation history is there at a click of a button.
Liberal attorneys have all the bar associations, inns of court and numerous groups like the American Constitution Society to get help from.

Well, that's the thing, right? Climate scientists swing heavily toward rejecting kooky theories about conspiracies of climate scientists. Geologists swing heavily toward "the Earth is 4.6 billion years old." Economists swing heavily toward "regressive tax cuts don't pay for themselves or spur an explosion in economic growth." Journalists swing heavily toward wanting to tell important stories without doing political propaganda. Etc. People who are going along with their professions' core beliefs don't get an advantage from it. To stand out, their work has to be exceptional. But people who are willing to sell out or who have unconventional views that are appealing to rich financiers can do really well. Not saying that that's you--you know I know your situation--but that's a general truth about those fields.

 

[splendica]

I used to like the Penguins back when Lemieux and Jagr played together. I liked those dirty Samuelsson brothers as well. But in the Crosby era I don't like them much for some reason. I mean, Crosby is clearly excellent, but he irritates me.

Crosby's grown on me. I never thought he'd get past the concussions and turn into one of the legit all time greats. But he has.

It's tough to be compared against Lemieux and the teams with both he and Jagr, but I think Sid and Geno have come close to the greatness of the other two.

Sid's work ethic is off the charts and he has phenomenal skill in every area. Someone put together some amazing skill-set montages of Sid:

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[Trotsky]

Interesting, can you go in more detail?

FedSoc makes up about 10% of any given graduating T14 class. And it's not necessarily the top performers of the class. Yet now about half of US Presidents (from the GOP) will choose their judicial nominees exclusively from that 10% regardless of the fact that it is not concentrated at the top of the class/profession. And that power begets power, as those hacks only hire a new generation of hacks to clerk for them, etc. etc. etc., while the vast majority of their contemporaries think that all of them (FedSoc) are idiots.

So, basically, one-half of appointments come from 90% and the other half comes from 10%.

Souter got appointed because of a mistaken belief that he was kinda conservative.

Man, what a crazy arc he had. Opposed by women's groups and the NAACP. Then became the greatest jurist, and a bona fide liberal one at that, of my lifetime. God bless David Souter. If I could model the judiciary after one single personality, it would be him, hands down.

Funny how I didnt make a claim yet you magically reply with a clear attempt to refute something...and did again a second time here...

Let the socialist communist level of idiocy commence with yet another lame reply while I drink your tears.

So this is your shtick? Shit posting and then running from your shit posts? Meh, whatever. You'll be banned for being a troll eventually anyways.

 

[EradiatedHaggis]

So this is your shtick? Shit posting and then running from your shit posts? Meh, whatever. You'll be banned for being a troll eventually anyways.

Been waiting for the a typical socialist tactic of accusing someone of what you yourself are doing to deflect.

And I have no doubt I will be banned for doing what you do, because only crybaby snowflakes like you report people when you have been made to look like the fool you are. You have never once been able to defend a single stance you have made that has been challenged directly. You always deflect, you have no choice. Your beliefs have failed 100% of time in history, in every country that ever tried it and I laugh at you. Wait, I need to take a few more sips to make room for those continually flowing tears of yours.



Also, I wonder if your device is running on something made by those terrible evil corporations you hate so much as you rail against capitalism...oh wait, I forgot...I never made that "claim", I am only shit posting with a person that keeps replying to "no claim" because he is too stupid to realize he should just ignore things he cant defend himself from instead of making himself out to be an even bigger fool by saying nothing was ever said.

 

[Jack V Savage]

FedSoc makes up about 10% of any given graduating T14 class. And it's not necessarily the top performers of the class. Yet now about half of US Presidents (from the GOP) will choose their judicial nominees exclusively from that 10% regardless of the fact that it is not concentrated at the top of the class/profession. And that power begets power, as those hacks only hire a new generation of hacks to clerk for them, etc. etc. etc., while the vast majority of their contemporaries think that all of them (FedSoc) are idiots.

So, basically, one-half of appointments come from 90% and the other half comes from 10%.

In the case of some of those things I mentioned, like economists willing to defend Austrianism or other crazy right-wing econ theories, we're talking about way less than 10%. Though there aren't as many openings for hacks.

 

[glenwo2]

Kavanaugh's successful nomination left a void on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Trump moved to fill it today with Neomi Rao, an associate professor at George Mason, who has been one of Trump's key people in his attempts to fight overregulation.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/13/politics/trump-neomi-rao-brett-kavanaugh/index.html

Seems like a bold pick. I think Trump knows a lot of his agenda is dead with Dem control of the House, and so he'll focus on more solid judicial picks to round out his first term.

Thoughts?

What if he tried writing Executive Orders? Will he be able to get at least SOME items on his agenda done?

 

[glenwo2]

Well, because you don't know who she is. (not that the average person would)
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/neomi-rao

She is highly qualified.

Christine Blasey Ford : "Ms. Reo sexually assaulted me with a Dildo 7 years ago. But I don't remember when, where, or how it happened"