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SCOTUS Absurd

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On May 11, 2010

The controversy, such as it is, over Elena Kagan’s nomination throws several points into relief: (1) The extent to which legal academia is an intellectually bankrupt and politically corrupt insi

Qualified support

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On May 10, 2010
I just did an NPR show with UC-Irvine dean Erwin Chemerinksy about the Kagan nomination. Some of the tepid quality of the support for Kagan is illustrated by the fact that, in the talk radio debate format, this counts as an argument for putting her on the court: Elena Kagan is impeccably qualified for the […]

Whiff

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On May 9, 2010
Apparently, Elena Kagan will be nominated for the Supreme Court.   I will go into more detail about this later, but there shouldn’t be any sugarcoating — it’s a poor choice.    One way of seeing this is to examine Marty Peretz’s attempted defense.   Boil off the usual add homienems and you’re left with no actual real […]
Some thoughts on the impending nomination. The wildly contrasting impressions about Kagan can be easily reconciled if one assumes that people who know Kagan are simply projecting their own political inclinations and commitments onto her. This is an extremely common phenomenon: if you like someone and believe she is fundamentally a good and fair-minded person, […]
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