1. My sources say this is simply made up.
2. Leonard Leo of @fedsoc, who would know as someone very involved in picking #SCOTUSnominee, denied it to @hughhewitt.
3. The reporter, @LACaldwellDC, has walked it back a bit (see her most recent tweets). #scotus https://twitter.com/geoffrbennett/status/1016642192616706050 …
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But was a bit unclear about what, exactly, was erroneous. The revised version of the story, which NBC, as far as I can tell, is standing by, is not too much better.
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yeah right if there's a list of four and only one obvious right winger he should know they'll pick that one, if they assured him they would pick from his list it's virtually the same
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Even if they didn't assure him of anything, the whole process is sketchy - he gives them a list, they add one of the names from his list to their public list. And then that guy gets the nod. It's dubious. Kennedy shouldn't be submitting a list of names in the first place.
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I had not seen that, will check that now, thank you for the response.
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But still likely true.
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Kennedy, may have had a say in his replacement, which, is at least, ethnically questionable. Also impliess how incestuous the upper echelons of power are. Which isn't great.
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The new explanation is that he just gave them a list. BMK was on that list. He was added to official list in November. To one degree or another, Kennedy picked his successor. I don’t really have a problem with it, but it happened.
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To me that shows another example of a broken system where only the powerful/influential are afforded consideration for positions that keep them in power & influence (in this case, former SCOTUS clerk who rcvd clerkship in part b.c of Ivy connections). 1/2
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I was not aware, of that, thank you for the response.
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