I noticed something about Ketanji Brown Jackson

Poor Richard Saunders said:
Did you bother to check the Harvard website before you decided to make yourself look like a fool by claiming "government" wasn't an undergraduate degree program?

https://gov.harvard.edu/

Not only is government an undergraduate program at Harvard, you can get an undergraduate degree in four different concentrations.
https://undergrad.gov.harvard.edu/programs-study-gov
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You've conflated a Department or College at Harvard of Government with a degree program. That's like saying you are taking a Science or Business degree. That's not the case. You take a specific program within the department like political science, or public policy. That department at Harvard offers four degree programs.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
You've conflated a Department or College at Harvard of Government with a degree program. That's like saying you are taking a Science or Business degree. That's not the case. You take a specific program within the department like political science, or public policy. That department at Harvard offers four degree programs.
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Care to provide any evidence to back up your claims?
They offer four concentrations but they allow for any combination to make up a student's own version of a degree by working with their advisor.

The graduates get an AB in government. There is no AB in political science from Harvard.




But this is from the Harvard website.


Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Harvard College

The concentration in Government introduces students to the discipline of political science: the study of power in all of its many forms and consequences. The program aims both to prepare students to lead engaged civic lives and to introduce them to the ways in which political scientists explain and analyze the social and political world around them.
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https://www.harvard.edu/programs/government/



There is a theater department at Harvard. Can one not get a degree in theater from Harvard?
There is an engineering department at Harvard. Can one not get a degree in engineering from Harvard?
Harvard offers two degrees in Engineering Sciences: the Bachelor of Arts (AB) and the Bachelor of Science (SB). Students in these programs select a specialization in a particular engineering area through their Track in the concentration requirements.
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https://www.harvard.edu/programs/engineering-sciences/

There is a physics department at Harvard. Can one not get a degree in physics from Harvard?
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Harvard College

The concentration in Physics, administered by the Department of Physics, serves a variety of goals and interests. A concentration in Physics provides a foundation for subsequent professional work in physics, and also for work in computer science, astronomy, biophysics, chemical physics, engineering and applied physics, earth and planetary sciences, geology, astrophysics, and the history and philosophy of science.
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https://www.harvard.edu/programs/physics/
 
Poor Richard Saunders said:
Care to provide any evidence to back up your claims?
They offer four concentrations but they allow for any combination to make up a student's own version of a degree by working with their advisor.

The graduates get an AB in government. There is no AB in political science from Harvard.




But this is from the Harvard website.



https://www.harvard.edu/programs/government/



There is a theater department at Harvard. Can one not get a degree in theater from Harvard?
There is an engineering department at Harvard. Can one not get a degree in engineering from Harvard?

https://www.harvard.edu/programs/engineering-sciences/

There is a physics department at Harvard. Can one not get a degree in physics from Harvard?

https://www.harvard.edu/programs/physics/
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Okay, I'll go with that. She got the usual, simpleton poly science degree in "government" in the form of a BA then went to law school, another simple liberal arts degree. Nothing of great intellect involved there. Is she smart? Yea. Is she brilliant, some high IQ genius? I seriously doubt it.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
What I noticed, is that the internet is devoid of sites that delve any deeper into her education beyond going to Harvard. Most say she studied "government." Well, last time I checked, "government" wasn't an undergraduate degree program. A few say she also studied "drama." That too isn't a degree program.

What I don't see is specifics. This looks like the same sort of scrubbing Obama got on the internet when he was running for President.

That doesn't argue for me wanting to support Jackson as a candidate for the Supreme Court. She and her supporters should be willing to put information like that out there, warts and all, for us to look at.
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Harvard undergrads can take two degree courses called "Government." https://www.harvard.edu/programs/?page=2

And drama is covered under both English and Comparative Literature. https://www.harvard.edu/programs/?search-by-keyword=Drama
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Okay, I'll go with that. She got the usual, simpleton poly science degree in "government" in the form of a BA then went to law school, another simple liberal arts degree. Nothing of great intellect involved there. Is she smart? Yea. Is she brilliant, some high IQ genius? I seriously doubt it.
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I am going to bet that you cannot pass a bar exam.
 
Stone said:
Sure....Not what I was talking about at all. ANYONE can put together a chart like that and depending on the pre determined metrics you include in the chart to get the outcome you want it can be made to make anyone the winner or loser that you want to.
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So you completely reject it was an accurate chart. That shows slant, not the reasonableness you are feigning.
 
AProudLefty said:
I am going to bet that you cannot pass a bar exam.
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Never tried. But I'd bet you are wrong. I had to, and successfully did, memorize three different naval nuclear power plants pretty much down to just about the nuts and bolts (yea, Rickover's program was that anal retentive), got degrees in programming and industrial engineering, and all of that is far harder than law. After all, for the most part liars... err, lawyers are nothing but glorified secretaries filling out forms to submit to the court or other government bodies. I can do that kind of crap easily too.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Never tried. But I'd bet you are wrong. I had to, and successfully did, memorize three different naval nuclear power plants pretty much down to just about the nuts and bolts (yea, Rickover's program was that anal retentive), got degrees in programming and industrial engineering, and all of that is far harder than law. After all, for the most part liars... err, lawyers are nothing but glorified secretaries filling out forms to submit to the court or other government bodies. I can do that kind of crap easily too.
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Barrett's undergrad major was English Lit with a minor in French. Where was the outrage?
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Who?
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T. A. Gardner said:
Okay, I'll go with that. She got the usual, simpleton poly science degree in "government" in the form of a BA then went to law school, another simple liberal arts degree. Nothing of great intellect involved there. Is she smart? Yea. Is she brilliant, some high IQ genius? I seriously doubt it.
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Well. I guess Ted Cruz is trying to prove you don't even have to be smart to get into Harvard Law.

Are you claiming only high IQ geniuses should sit on the Supreme Court? Did you have that standard when Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett were nominated? None of them were high IQ geniuses by any stretch of the imagination. Brown has a better record as a lawyer than Barrett by a large margin.

Amy Coney Barrett graduated with a degree in English Lit while being in the top 5% of her class. Talk about a degree that doesn't require a great intellect. She then went to a law school that isn't even in the top 20.
Brett Kavanaugh graduated in the top 50% of his class with a degree in history. He couldn't even make the top 20%. Once again, talk about a degree that doesn't require a great intellect.
Gorsuch gradated in the top 50% of his class with a degree in poly sci. We know what you think about a degree in government when a black woman graduates with it.
 
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