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The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
there is something refreshing about a justice who sets aside the artifice of legal reasoning in favor of gussied-up realpolitik.
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
Kavanaugh and Roberts are nearly inseparable, voting together in 98 percent of cases, a record on this court.
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson compared a Kavanaugh majority opinion to the children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
In TransUnion v. Ramirez, Kavanaugh gutted Congress’ authority to create new individual rights
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
The justice often uses oral arguments not to ask questions, but to make his case to the listening public,
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
When Kavanaugh does venture into legal analysis, he frequently flattens his reasoning into a single phrase that, in his telling, settles the whole ball of wax.
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
This is not legal analysis, and it barely pretends to be. It is, rather, a combination of backlash management (“We aren’t that extreme!”) and policymaking of the sort that is constitutionally assigned to the democratic branches.
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
His concurrence in NYSRPA v. Bruen greenlit mandatory mental health checks for gun licenses—a hotly contested issue that, once again, was not before the court. His concurrence in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard marked a weird attempt to frame the majority opinion as “consistent with” the precedents that it was, in fact, overturning, a dubious effort to minimize the explosive nature of the court’s decision.
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
His concurrence in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization proclaimed that states may not punish residents for getting an abortion elsewhere, prejudging an issue that was not before the court.
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
As the swing vote, Kavanaugh sometimes uses concurrences to limit the scope of a liberal majority opinion,
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
What matters isn’t Kavanaugh’s reasoning, but his ability to marshal a majority behind an opinion—any opinion—that clears a controversial case off the docket without risking bad press.
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
Kavanaugh’s opinion was not designed to be a coherent piece of legal analysis. It was more akin to a decision memo directed at the lower courts—the kind of thing he drafted during his years as White House staff secretary.
Many Kavanaugh writings make sense only when viewed through this lens. His U.S. v. Vaello Madero opinion (six pages) announces that the Supreme Court will not grant equal rights to Americans living in the territories;
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
When Kavanaugh comes across an argument he doesn’t want to address, he has a foolproof solution: pretend it doesn’t exist. This approach has sparked increasingly vocal complaints from his colleagues
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
A cynic might think that Kavanaugh started with the conclusion that Texas can’t seize control over immigration enforcement from the president, then worked backward to give Biden the narrowest possible win.
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
U.S. v. Texas, which rejected Texas’ standing to challenge the Biden administration’s immigrant enforcement guidelines.
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
To the extent that his colleagues think about him at all, they seem to view him as a fixer who can cobble together five votes for a diaphanous majority opinion that decides almost nothing.
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
He wanted to be the conservative whom liberals could respect—Justice Antonin Scalia without the volcanic temper—and the high-minded jurist who could sell right-wing legal theories to the public as common-sense constitutional principles.
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
unlike past swing votes, Kavanaugh rarely authors important or notable opinions of the court.
The Supreme Court has a clear intellectual lightweight.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is the most powerful and least influential member of the U.S. Supreme Court today.
Former Dem rep fired by Morgan Stanley denies harassment allegations | TheHill
"I support and have tremendous respect for the brave women now speaking out in this important national dialogue. False claims like this undermine the real silence breakers," he said.
Meme Wars: Is It OK To Be White? – Tablet Magazine
“Black Lives Matter” was a simple declarative, instantly memorable, impossible to dispute,
The Sins of Leon Wieseltier | The Weekly Standard
I noted that in recent years Leon had added to his repertoire the notion that he was, as he put it, “the intellectual son” of distinguished men: of Lionel Trilling, Isaiah Berlin, Saul Bellow, and others. “I have many intellectual fathers,” I heard him say in more than one of his interviews. Since all these men were dead, I thought, what a pity they couldn’t, as all would doubtless have wished, deny paternity.
The Sins of Leon Wieseltier | The Weekly Standard
Still a fairly young man, Leon Wieseltier was setting up shop as one of the leading moralists of our day, and with absolutely no legitimate claims to it that I could see, and a few, from personal experience, that I knew disqualified him.
The Sins of Leon Wieseltier | The Weekly Standard
Before long Leon was given control over the back of the book, the literary and cultural sections of the New Republic. His byline would appear mostly over something like a column, not every week but fairly often, on the last page of the magazine. These columns increasingly became moral diatribes. Whatever the subject, one thing they all had in common was that he, Leon Wieseltier, not only had a clearer vision of the world and what was important in it than anyone he was writing about, but also a deeper moral imagination. Along the way, he had developed a style which entailed short-sentences that suggested the aphorism. This style worked nicely to elevate himself while dismissing anyone who happened to disagree as a moral idiot, scum really
Trump suggests reporters ask Kelly whether Obama called after his son was killed in action - CNNPolitics
Kelly and his wife, Karen Hernest Kelly, were invited to attend a 2011 Memorial Day breakfast for Gold Star families, those men and women whose children were killed in action, according to an aide, speaking on background.
White House visitor logs from that day show that Kelly and his wife were cleared to attend the event. A person familiar with the breakfast says that General and Mrs. Kelly were scheduled to sit at Michelle Obama's table
‘This Is Bad for America, But Great for Us’ - POLITICO Magazine
Then, on Friday night on a stage in Alabama, Trump picked a very public fight with professional football players, calling for them to be fired for kneeling in an ongoing protest over racial injustice, inequality and police brutality. When Travis woke up the next morning, he turned to his wife and said, “This is bad for America, but this is great for us.”
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