So are you making a dig at Marshall or Thomas--or Jackson?
I've had dyed in the wool true blue progressive law professor friends say, in private environments, that Jackson is a complete moron. Pretty close to the same for Sotomayor.
SCOTUS may be one of the first great examples of DEI incompetence coming back to hurt their own side. Kagan is legitimately brilliant and knows her stuff. I strongly disagree with her much of the time, but she is smart and and can sometimes convince other judges to join her.
Sotomayor and Jackson play their roles, but they have no intellectual foundation.
So are you making a dig at Marshall or Thomas--or Jackson?
No, you misoverestimated me. I forgot about Marshall, who may have been political but AFAIK a fairly competent lawyer. First three then.
SCOTUS may be one of the first great examples of DEI incompetence coming back to hurt their own side. Kagan is legitimately brilliant and knows her stuff. I strongly disagree with her much of the time, but she is smart and and can sometimes convince other judges to join her.
One of the strengths of the right is that even when it was on the losing side, it was making great arguments in the form of Scalia, which are the intellectual foundations for future majority opinions. That is role that the opinions of Jackson and Sotomayor will never play.
Thurgood Marshall, Clarence Thomas, Ketanji Jackson.
So are you making a dig at Marshall or Thomas--or Jackson?
I've had dyed in the wool true blue progressive law professor friends say, in private environments, that Jackson is a complete moron. Pretty close to the same for Sotomayor.
SCOTUS may be one of the first great examples of DEI incompetence coming back to hurt their own side. Kagan is legitimately brilliant and knows her stuff. I strongly disagree with her much of the time, but she is smart and and can sometimes convince other judges to join her.
Sotomayor and Jackson play their roles, but they have no intellectual foundation.
No, you misoverestimated me. I forgot about Marshall, who may have been political but AFAIK a fairly competent lawyer. First three then.
One of the strengths of the right is that even when it was on the losing side, it was making great arguments in the form of Scalia, which are the intellectual foundations for future majority opinions. That is role that the opinions of Jackson and Sotomayor will never play.