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.
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.