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re: It's time to stop putting Ivy League lawyers on the Supreme Court.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 3:55 pm to lionward2014
Posted on 9/15/26 at 3:55 pm to lionward2014
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Thomas actually gets his clerks from a lot of non-T14 schools, but still top 20-25ish schools.
He came and spoke to us at UF law in 2010. I distinctly remember him saying they needed to do a better job of looking outside of the Ivy League for clerks. I just looked at the list of his clerks. He's had a few SEC law school grads since then. He's had clerks since then from Alabama, Georgia, Florida, LSU and Vandy
Posted on 9/15/26 at 3:55 pm to TigerIron
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Lol, no. D.C. has some of the nicest, wealthiest, safest suburbs in the country (courtesy of your tax dollars). That's where they live.
So does New Orleans and Chicago, but if you're actually trying to say D.C. isn't ALSO crime-ridden, then you must not really understand D.C.
OP just said near crime-ridden areas which, if they live in D.C., is true. This shite ain't rocket surgery.
Though you can thank Trump for a decline in their shite crime stats...
Posted on 9/15/26 at 3:55 pm to America250
Everyone focuses on the symptoms rather than the cause.
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion…Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
We don’t need new laws or institutions, we need men and women who fear God more than they love themselves.
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion…Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
We don’t need new laws or institutions, we need men and women who fear God more than they love themselves.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 3:59 pm to America250
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Utilize some of the law schools in the SEC. LSU, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Alabama, Texas. etc.
For to long Presidents have nominated Ivy League grads, and they don't have real world experience. They all are members of one large social club.
Agree 100%
Posted on 9/15/26 at 3:59 pm to soonerinlOUisiana
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Sweating to make payroll. Sitting in a conference with an actual human client rather than the executive committee of a multinational corporation. Vacationing at Panama City beach rather than cape cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Hamptons, etc.
First real answer.
Now, how do you believe that helps them more than the ivies?
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:08 pm to America250
So we need dingbats an scotus like Harriet Meirs who Bush tried to install?
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:09 pm to SloaneRanger
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Very few of the justices have ever tried a jury case. I’ll bet most of them have ever represented a private client. The OP is spot on about avoiding the Ivies. We need people who were real lawyers with practical experience.
There are not a lot of relevant skills for being a SCOTUS justice that comes from litigation.
There are plenty of good lawyers that come out of non-T-14s. That said T-14s are generally used as a shorthand for competent attorneys and they are the ones that get the clerkships and end up on the justice track. They are the ones that get the relevant experience.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:09 pm to America250
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For to long Presidents have nominated Ivy League grads, and they don't have real world experience.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:10 pm to RummelTiger
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Now, how do you believe that helps them more than the ivies?
It hardens them to the realities of life, rather than insulated elitist existence of their ivory towers.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:14 pm to KCT
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Ketanji
smh
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:14 pm to America250
Barrett isn't Ivy League. She is from Louisiana and went to Notre Dame for law school but she's as useless as tits on a bull.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:15 pm to BuzzSaw 12
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but she's as useless as tits on a bull.
Because she isn't a partisan hack?
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:17 pm to soonerinlOUisiana
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It hardens them to the realities of life, rather than insulated elitist existence of their ivory towers.
The realities of life don't help anyone interpret the Constitution, though. If anything, they would hamper one's ability to interpret the document objectively.
This post was edited on 9/15/26 at 4:18 pm
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:19 pm to 4cubbies
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The realities of life don't help anyone interpret the Constitution, though. If anything, they would hamper one's ability to interpret the document objectively.
There is no objective interpretation. That’s why appellate courts have panels of judges/justices.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:22 pm to soonerinlOUisiana
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It hardens them to the realities of life, rather than insulated elitist existence of their ivory towers.
I can understand that, but does the law school choice make them elitist or more qualified?
They all had to do a variety of clerkships, ADA, DA, State Court, Fed Court work, etc. - it's possible that the early experiences did give them that life experience, no?
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:24 pm to America250
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Utilize some of the law schools in the SEC. LSU, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Alabama, Texas. etc.
We do not need a supreme court made up of lawyers like Buddy Caldwell.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:36 pm to Obtuse1
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There are not a lot of relevant skills for being a SCOTUS justice that comes from litigation.
Yeah this gets brought up when Kennedy does his schtick during the nomination process.
Being a good trial court judge and a good appellate judge are completely different things. Litigation helps a LOT with being a good trial court judge and helps very little with being an appellate judge.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:37 pm to Eurocat
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So we need dingbats an scotus like Harriet Meirs who Bush tried to install?
As opposed to dingbats like Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Michael Jackson?
The objective should be to nominate and confirm the best candidates. Obviously that isn't done too often, whether they are nominated by Dubya, Soetoro, or Brandon.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:43 pm to scottydoesntknow
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Agree 100%
Yeah, but you don’t know…..ASSuming you’re Scotty.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:44 pm to WeeWee
Im more inclined with the likes of a Sen. John Kennedy. Vanderbilt grad and University of Virginia law school.
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