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 …
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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