GrandAdmiral
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So, if my count is correct, this is the third time SCOTUS has found the law constitutional, this time due to standing.
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100% it’s this. Well-deserved vitriol for McConnell. ACB was collateral damage.I think a lot of the backlash against ACB was the blatant hypocrisy of the GOP ramming her through right before the election
I think a lot of the backlash against ACB was the blatant hypocrisy of the GOP ramming her through right before the election
If RBG had passed in Sept 2019 and Barrett was nominated I don't think the venom would have been nearly as intense
I think a lot of the backlash against ACB was the blatant hypocrisy of the GOP ramming her through right before the election
If RBG had passed in Sept 2019 and Barrett was nominated I don't think the venom would have been nearly as intense
I think a lot of the backlash against ACB was the blatant hypocrisy of the GOP ramming her through right before the election
If RBG had passed in Sept 2019 and Barrett was nominated I don't think the venom would have been nearly as intense
Brett Kavanaugh's credentials as a Supreme Court justice might be better then ACB, but then again, so were Robert Bork's. Bork served as Nixon's AG, and controversy aside, had a strong, respected legal mind and yet rightfully, he was castigated and his legal and judicial opinions were openly scewered by a hostile, unconvinced Senate confirmation SCOTUS committee. Kavanaugh simply had the benefit of being in the right place and having GOP in full control of both House and Senate, whereas Bork had neither. Kavanaugh and ACB would not be serving currently on the Supreme Court if the current power configuration existed 3-4 years ago.I think resistance to ACB among the institutionalists was that ACB was terribly under-qualified and under-experienced, and her nomination owes entirely to the Heritage Foundation and the evangelical effort to fill the bench with judges they expect will apply reliably Christian doctrine to American law.
While her nomination didn't have the controversy that Kavanaugh's did, no one could ever say that Kavanaugh lacked a Supreme Court pedigree. ACB has virtually none of boxes you expect to be ticked in a confirmed nominee . . . but it didn't matter.