Not many people have a clue how few African-Americans are out at the far right edge of the cognitive bell curve from which Supreme Court clerks are drawn. It's like South Asian cornerbacks or Mexican 100m dash men.
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Replying to @Steve_Sailer @tedfrank
You could have replaced RBG with a 105 IQ slate reader and gotten exactly the same decisions.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @tedfrank
But a 105 IQ Slate reader would need 140+ IQ Supreme Court clerks to keep her opinions credible-sounding to the legal profession. RBG apparently felt that affirmative action didn't apply to her in hiring clerks because she was too important to preserving affirmative action.
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Replying to @Steve_Sailer @tedfrank
>But a 105 IQ Slate reader would need 140+ IQ Supreme Court clerks to keep her opinions credible-sounding to the legal profession The system is fully willing to burn credibility at an ever increasing rate and there hasn't exactly been a rebellion in the legal profession
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Maybe when RBG started her legal career there was some concern about preserving credibility - "these affirmative action admits like RBG are just as good as the traditional admits and we'll prove it" but that's contextual - something only needed until there's no memory of the old
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How smart are the various Supremes at present?
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Eight of the justices are tip-top intellects, and the ninth is well above average. (Sotomayor admits having lower test scores than her peers, but not so low that she didn’t do well in school.) Of the last 8 appointments, 6 were SCOTUS clerks themselves, and Alito just missed.
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Replying to @tedfrank @aguy123452 and
Yale Law students learned from Sotomayor’s success in taking offense at questions about affirmative action that shouldn’t be considered offensive.https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/12/16/law-firm-apologizes-to-yale-student/476c0d94-63b8-44d5-a990-a4dfc446abc7/ …
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Replying to @tedfrank @aguy123452 and
RBG was absolutely not an affirmative action admit. Quite the opposite: open discrimination against women was socially acceptable, and the school only took a few exceptional female candidates. She excelled in law school while taking care of her sick husband.
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Replying to @tedfrank @aguy123452 and
Was she an affirmative action nominee to the SC?
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Not really since the only qualification was "vote like you're the average Salon reader" Millions of people could have done that job exactly as well.
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