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My favorite musician often says, "I'm not writing this to change your mind about anything. I'm writing this to ease my own mind about everything."
And so with no sarcasm and no intent to debate, I'm thankful for today's 3rd Circuit opinion and our courts. (1/10)
And so with no sarcasm and no intent to debate, I'm thankful for today's 3rd Circuit opinion and our courts. (1/10)
https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Trump.pdf
A judge appointed by President Trump just rejected the latest election challenge, emphatically and neutrally.
Our judges are not partisans in robes. (2/10)
A judge appointed by President Trump just rejected the latest election challenge, emphatically and neutrally.
Our judges are not partisans in robes. (2/10)
Cable news needs them to be. The SCOTUS beat writers need narratives, just like the Olympic advertisements need anecdotes.
They write for readers, not for enrichment, accuracy, or the good of our system. (3/10)
They write for readers, not for enrichment, accuracy, or the good of our system. (3/10)
What harms perception isn't (often) partisan judges. It's the labels and rhetoric that folks use to disguise that they just don't like the result.
Justice Kennedy wasn't a partisan hack when upholding sovereign immunity. He was himself. Himself also wrote Obergfell. (4/10)
Justice Kennedy wasn't a partisan hack when upholding sovereign immunity. He was himself. Himself also wrote Obergfell. (4/10)
Justice Scalia wasn't Lucifer's conservative when writing Heller. He was himself. Himself also wrote Crawford and dozens of other pro-liberty cases. (5/10)
These lazy labels won't change. Those without the brainpower to process nuance often join or follow those with motives unrelated to accuracy or preserving our court system.
I refuse to bow. (6/10)
I refuse to bow. (6/10)
For many years, I questioned my wisdom, exposure, and age. I remained skeptical of my countercultural reverence for the court. But now after 15 years in the Academy and moonlighting in around 50 courts? (7/10)
Now, I'm truly thankful that we can or could look to Justices (to name a few) Scalia, Kagan, Ginsburg, Roberts, Gorsuch, and others whose true selves don't always vote how I would.(8/10)
And I'm so thankful I live here and get to teach about our great charter and those great people, so simplistically and wrongly labeled, who have kept our Charter & Courts the most revered.
I'll keep trying to inspire reverence (9/10)
I'll keep trying to inspire reverence (9/10)
And I'll keep trying to expose the flawed arrogance of those who believe they can simply dismantle and improve our iconic system in 140 characters.
Happy Thanksgiving. And thanks, @ToddSnider for teaching me not all writing has to be to persuade others. (10/10)
Happy Thanksgiving. And thanks, @ToddSnider for teaching me not all writing has to be to persuade others. (10/10)
