VT’s Election Chief Asks SCOTUS To Correct Error In Kavanaugh Opinion | Talking Points Memo

!st. solo job and he gets it wrong. How putting real lawyers on the Court not political hacks? “Freedom and Unity”.

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I didn’t keep track of all of his errors and inconsistencies, but it would be great if every law school in the country could write letters asking that those errors and fallacies be corrected. Make him realize that if he insists on being an idiot, he will be publicly humiliated. And then every opinion, concurrence, or dissent could be treated the same way: “what has the drunk said now?”

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“What a mook.”

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After drinking too much beer.

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Good. Slap that beer-swilling predator.

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John Roberts ought to have a little talk with him:

“Boofer, you embarrass the shit out of us like that one more time, and I’m going to assign your office space down in the basement of the courthouse on Rota*. You will STFU and vote the way I tell you, or you will be sitting in that little basement in a 12x10 ft room. And I swear to God I will give you two clerks, one of them an MS-13 gangbanger with a law degree he earned in prison, and the other a former Black Panther who got his degree in Sing-sing. And you will share that office space with them. You better hope you have a stable internet connection, because I will expect you on every meeting. You won’t fucking see daylight except on weekends. Now STFU and do what I say, you idiot.”

* Northern Marianna Islands. I don’t wish Boofer on them, but it would be a good place to get him out of the way.

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I think that stupid Supreme Court opinions that fundamentally misunderstand the mechanics of elections are a much greater threat to the Democratic process than waiting until votes are counted. Can we please ban the “Rape Judge” now?

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How drunk did he get while his clerks drafted the opinion?

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Your reporting is very helpful–it would be even better if you corrected the typos so that we could follow the argument!

Would her lying about/hiding all the anti-abortion speeches qualify? Or taking part in the campaign rally in after being sworn in?

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Probably needs to get a laminated copy, so that way his isn’t always getting “water” on it.

OK, but how many beers did she have?

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Harry Truman appointed Tom Clark as one of the four justices he named in his nearly 8 years. Clark was a Truman loyalist and one of Harry’s great friends. He had served well as Attorney General both of Texas and the United States.

He was a lousy justice. The list of opinions he wrote is exceedingly short. The Chief Justice just didn’t ask him to write. He is remembered for having several public buildings named after him.

I suspect Kavanaugh is going to have a similar career on the court.

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What an awesome way to say ‘fuck you Kavanaugh’! :joy:

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She didn’t have knowledge to write it.

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And this is basically at the order of a “media president”, who hasn’t read the Constitution (or much of anything else), either), and only goes by ratings numbers, like the Nielsens, the Dow, the partial vote counts…

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how serious is Kavanaugh’s alcoholism? does it represent a consistent impairment - or just random?

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Could Kavanaugh be a closet alcoholic? No, seriously.

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I’m kind of interested in how often it happens that an official from a state not even involved in a case decided by the S. Ct. requests corrections to an opinion that misrepresents what that state has done or is doing.

I mean, how common can this be … before Kavanaugh?

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At some point (imo) an opinion based on false statements crosses the line into malfeasance. Because once all the false statements are corrected, the ostensible logical support for the holding is gone. Yet the holding remains. Which is corrupt if knowing. And if unknowing, then a sign of obvious unfitness.

Can clerks be called to testify about the process whereby an opinion was drafted?

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