The Willful Naïveté of Stephen Breyer

[BidenPresident]

Indeed, even after the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, had muscled three nominees onto the court — trashing the norms of the appointments process and tipping the court’s balance decisively to the right — there was Justice Breyer, maintaining that his new colleagues had checked their politics at the door. “Once appointed,” he argued in a book published in September, “a judge naturally decides a case in the way that he or she believes the law demands. It is a judge’s sworn duty to be impartial, and all of us take that oath seriously.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/o...eme-court.html

[BidenPresident]

Breyer is making the case we could use an AI program and eliminate the Supreme Court.

[Yakuda]

Indeed, even after the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, had muscled three nominees onto the court — trashing the norms of the appointments process and tipping the court’s balance decisively to the right — there was Justice Breyer, maintaining that his new colleagues had checked their politics at the door. “Once appointed,” he argued in a book published in September, “a judge naturally decides a case in the way that he or she believes the law demands. It is a judge’s sworn duty to be impartial, and all of us take that oath seriously.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/o...eme-court.html

Oh well

[BidenPresident]

SFFA’s lawsuit seeking to strike down affirmative action has received the enthusiastic backing of the conservative National Association of Scholars. It filed an amicus brief in support of the suit, accusing Harvard admissions officials of being prejudiced against Asian students and stereotyping them as “uninteresting, uncreative and one-dimensional”.

Ginni Thomas sits on the advisory board of the National Association of Scholars. Observers are concerned that her position with a group that has intervened in the affirmative action case could present appearances of conflict of interest.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022...e-ginni-thomas