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Re: Objectively intelligent.
Do any of ya'll practice in appellate circles?
I was perusing a comment thread over at Lawyers Guns and Money and came across this:
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I'm going to say something here, even if I have to talk elliptically so as not to dox myself.
Lisa Blatt's boosterism got a lot of press, but I don't think it is necessarily representative of her corner of the bar. Appellate lawyers aren't running around badmouthing Kavanaugh in public, but I promise you that his elevation dirtied the Court in their eyes in a way that his ideological allies (Alito, Gorsuch, etc.) did not. And that didn't go away. Now, those people having watercooler conversations about how the Court's legitimacy is eroding doesn't stop them going back to their desk and strategizing how to get Kavanaugh's vote on a cert petition they're writing, but culture and perception matter. To the point where, I'm told, Kavanaugh had some very slight trouble filling his law clerk ranks. And his elevation shattered the once-established norm where SCOTUS applicants apply to all the justices; top students refuse to apply to him. For a SCOTUS justice, that's inconceivable. Now, with Barrett on the Court--and given the way she got on the Court--I'd be willing to bet there is a much greater appetite for serious court reform among the careerist class than one might have expected.
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Any of this accurate as far as ya'll know?
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