What we really want to know from Alito, is how he feels about glue factories.
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Holy shit! He hired her?
ASS LAW (yeah, Iām gonna just keep calling it that) is considered a pretty shit law school, right? Lawbros?
Itās honestly not terrible but youāre telling on yourself going there.
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Well, this probably helps explain it a bit:
She apparently lived with the Thomasā for a year, and he wrote her recommendations for both law school and her previous clerkship.
"The appeals courtās investigation did, however, reveal some new details about Clantonās relationship with the Thomases, courtesy of a letter Thomas submitted to the court that a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution uncovered. According to Thomas, Clanton lived with the couple āfor almost a yearā after āher controversial and public departure from Turning Point USA.ā His wife, Thomas wrote, āinformed me of the horrible way in which she had been treatedā at the conservative organization.
According to the letter, Thomas wrote a law school recommendation for Clanton. He also recommended her to Pryor for the clerkship, telling the judge that the allegations in Mayerās reporting were āgrossly out of character and unfounded.ā
Is this impressive? It seems impressive.
I suppose we really need the fed/state split to know for sure.
Americans that donāt hide the fact that theyāre religious bigots will be labeled as religious bigots. Checks out
Itās just a factory for right wing weirdos. One of the many annoying things about the legal profession is that everyone just pretends these people must be talented to get their jobs. Nope, itās just rank partisanship all the way down.
Crystal Clanton 
When you say āthese peopleā youāre just talking about the RWNJ judges, right? Iād bet the farm that Kaganās clerks are smart AF.
Iām only enough to remember in the old country when DVaut1 was peddling that notion. IIRC, it was āLook, Ted Cruz was an SC clerk, he is almost a lock to be very smart and talentedā. I kind of thought he was right at the time, but Iām beginning to reconsider.
I think he is right in the sense that Ted Cruz is probably smarter than the average American by quite a bit, but thatās a low bar. I also think that he is probably not near as smart as someone like KBJ or Sri Srinivasan.
Alito went to Princeton and probably Yale or Harvard law and heās legitimately a fucking moron. Kavanaugh is entirely mediocre in every way. The right just has done a great job of creating an assembly line to get their policy preferences enacted while the left hasā¦(gestures widely).
Cruz is a piece of shit, but heās clearly smart - at least in the traditional sense. He graduated magna from Harvard law which means top 10% and was editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review. Iām sure heās an idiot in many ways, but heās clearly a great test taker and would do very well on any IQ test.
As far as I know, itās really only been a Clarence Thomas thing to select law clerks that arenāt particularly qualified to troll liberals. [NB - I havenāt kept up with recent SCOTUS clerks, so possible the new Rās are also following the Thomas model].
Yeah, that was DVautās position and Iād have cosigned as recently as a few yrs ago. Iām just not as sure now. I think if youāre savvy at navigating the system and a hard worker you can probably get into Harvard Law and get on law review. There is some intelligence required in that route, but itās not IQ test intelligence.
Thereās a lower cognitive burden to implement conservative ideology.
So when does she change the Cs to Ks?
If I see 179 new posts in this thread tomorrow Iāll know an IQ debate broke out.
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without knowing too much about it my guess would be that the bench is just way, way smaller for rightwing extremists, so they basically take who they can get and itās a pretty mixed bag, whereas someone like sotomayor can be extremely picky and merit actually means something when you have more bodies than seats to fill.
Clanton probably takes Thomasās spot on SCOTUS in Trumpās next term.
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Hmm
Guessing on a couple
Jackson-Breyer
Barrett-RBG
Kavanaugh-Kennedy
Gorsuch-Scalia
Sotomayor-Souter
Kagan-OāConnor
Roberts-Rehnquist
Alito-White
Thomas-Marshall