Possible - but a president so fond of giant gold lettering sometimes just goes for the obvious (as he did with Gorsuch). #SCOTUS #AppellateTwitterhttps://twitter.com/varadmehta/status/1012077870653628417 …
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IHardiman “looks the part” and his wife is from a real estate family. But he is not a feeder judge and nothing in his record suggests “brilliance”. I don’t get why Paul Clement was left off the list. Barrett will be kept for the RBG seat. Kavanaugh too much associated with Bush?
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I think the coast is clear for Kavanaugh now. He might not be everyone's favorite nominee (who is), but he's eminently confirmable.
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Trump saying his pick need to be Harvard or Yale. Rather narrows the list.
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Rules out Hardiman if true.
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And several others, e.g., Amy Coney Barrett, Raymond Kethledge, Joan Larsen, Amul Thapar - but it sounded to me like a somewhat offhand remark by Trump, not an ironclad commitment. But good news for Kavanaugh, I guess!
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So I guess Trump is leaning toward Barrett. Collins is on board because Barrett has written extensively about “precedent” (so clearly she respects its value!) and Schumer is trying for a pre-emotive strike.
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I know she said that about Gorsuch (he wrote about precedent), but has Collins said anything about Barrett specifically? If so, link? (I know Collins spoke over the weekend re: Roe and precedent generally.)
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Moderate Hardiman? (There was speculation about MTB's role, but no confirmation that I ever saw.)
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Yup, I'm on the same page - speculation but nothing solid (hence my "some say"). As for Hardiman's being "moderate," I think conservatives view him with suspicion on immigration.
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Interesting. Based on what?
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I follow the Third Circuit pretty closely and I can't think of any basis for that suspicion. To the contrary, he joined the 2016 opinion in Castro that's one of the most important and hated-by-liberals opinions to come out of any circuit in recent years.
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*immigration opinions to come out ...
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Here's a representative link (I think it's unfounded to criticize potential nominees for pro bono work, but this is the world we live in):https://www.vdare.com/articles/pro-bono-illegal-alien-volunteer-judge-thomas-hardiman-should-be-non-starter-for-scotus …
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Well, it's also unfounded to criticize someone for "sign[ing] on to an opinion" when in fact he concurred *in the judgment* and he explicitly disagreed with the exact parts of the majority opinion that the author, a recent law school grad, criticizes. Not exactly reliable.
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Hardiman is a moderate outlier on the Federalist list :https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/31/us/politics/trump-supreme-court-nominee.html …
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Interesting. Note that the entire basis for that study rating Hardiman as more moderate is that, at the time he was nominated, PA's GOP Senator was Specter -- nothing about Hardiman's own judicial record. (Haven't read the clerk-hiring study.)
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