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Lawyer turned writer, editor, and speaker. Founder, Above The Law (@ATLblog) and Underneath Their Robes. Author, Supreme Ambitions: A Novel (@SCOTUSambitions).

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    1. Daniel B. Rodriguez‏ @DBRodriguez5 Feb 15

      Spot on, @rickhasen. RBG the worst, but not the only, offender. Black robes bring isolation, but avoiding the limelight is the price you pay for the service & for the appearance of blind justice/1http://lat.ms/2EvqpyA 

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    2. Daniel B. Rodriguez‏ @DBRodriguez5 Feb 15

      2/judicial celebrity impacts public sense of independent judgment, whether or not the judge is influenced by celebrity. Also gives distorted sense of the overall role of the courts in constit democracy . . @EdWhelanEPPC @jadler1969 @avermeule @lsolum @RandyEBarnett @HorwitzPaul

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    3. Eric Rassbach‏ @ericrassbach Feb 15
      Replying to @DBRodriguez5 @EdWhelanEPPC and

      @DavidLat?

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    4. Daniel B. Rodriguez‏ @DBRodriguez5 Feb 15
      Replying to @ericrassbach @EdWhelanEPPC and

      Yes, I'd love to hear from @DavidLat on this topic. Underneath the Robes/Above the Law a big driver of this 30+ year of "judicial celebrity" movement. Assessment? @ElieNYC

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    5. Elie Mystal‏ @ElieNYC Feb 15
      Replying to @DBRodriguez5 @ericrassbach and

      In general, I think it's better if people know MORE about the nine, unaccountable, unelected officials making crucial decisions about our nation. If the Court wasn't doing things like electing presidents and creating new rights for gun ownership, i might change my mind.

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    6. Daniel B. Rodriguez‏ @DBRodriguez5 Feb 15
      Replying to @ElieNYC @ericrassbach and

      Making big impacts sure, and we should scrutinize their backgrounds, accomplishments, judicial philosophies, and opinions. But their views about presidential candidates? Notorious BIG,. I need his talent, & the t-shirt. RBG? Not so much. I can read her stuff. Ditto Gorsuch/1

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    7. Daniel B. Rodriguez‏ @DBRodriguez5 Feb 15
      Replying to @DBRodriguez5 @ElieNYC and

      2/I think the "we need to see & hear the real person in the flesh" narrative is nonsense. You and I and David have met gazillions of judges. Do you know more of value by chit-chatting with The Real Dick Posner? Not me.

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      David Lat‏Verified account @DavidLat Feb 15
      Replying to @DBRodriguez5 @ElieNYC and

      in a fallen world, it's better for us to recognize the humanity - and biases - of #SCOTUS justices, so we can monitor & police partisanship. And the line between relevant & irrelevant biography can get fuzzy. (2/2)

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        2. David Lat‏Verified account @DavidLat Feb 15
          Replying to @DavidLat @ElieNYC and

          Maybe Judge Jerome Frank overstated things with his famous quip about justice as what the judge ate for breakfast (even if legal nerds/#appellatetwitter types DO like to know what #SCOTUS justices eat for breakfast, from a celebrity perspective). (1/2)

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        3. David Lat‏Verified account @DavidLat Feb 15
          Replying to @DavidLat @ElieNYC and

          But what about a judge's religion, like Scalia's Catholicism? Or Ginsburg's feminism & history as a women's rights lawyer? Reasonable minds can disagree over whether this is personal trivia irrelevant to evaluating rulings or whether it's important. (2/2)

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        4. Daniel B. Rodriguez‏ @DBRodriguez5 Feb 15
          Replying to @DavidLat @ElieNYC and

          Agree. Let's know about them -- religion, history, accomplishments. You need to know RBG's views about Trump to know what's key? Or Scalia's views about . . . well . . . about all the nonsense that he was asked by sycophantic or hyper-critical lawyers over and over and over.

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        5. Paul Horwitz‏ @HorwitzPaul Feb 15
          Replying to @DBRodriguez5 @DavidLat and

          There is a kind of irony here. The last, best time to give candid information about themselves, their views, their backgrounds, etc. is their (first) confirmation hearing, before they have entered the judicial office. But what we get there is rehearsed kabuki. AFTER they have...

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        6. Paul Horwitz‏ @HorwitzPaul Feb 15
          Replying to @HorwitzPaul @DavidLat and

          ...become life-tenured judges, occupying a particular kind of office, is not the best time for them to suddenly decide to open up about themselves and their views about the world, let alone participate in a cult of personality.

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