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/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 . .
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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?@ElieNYC2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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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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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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See, I don't think RBG gave or gives her opinion on "presidential candidates," I think she gave her thoughts on a uniquely sexist and bigoted threat to American Democracy. Roberts earns no glory for sitting silent while the country is debased.
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Spinny spin. But the question is not the merits of her views (high, in my view & yours), but her expression of them as a federal judge. Christ, she's apologized 3 separate times for inappropriate comments. But she can't seem to help herself. Oh and/1
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What were the three separate apologies? The Trump comments and what else? Or three times for Trump comments?
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I stand corrected. She didn't apologize for HRC remarks. Regrettably. So just two (so far).https://www.usapoliticstoday.org/ruth-bader-ginsburg-blames-clinton/ …
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I should clarify: I don't support judges (Ginsburg or Scalia or anyone else) commenting on politics, Trump, Clinton, etc. My comments were more about the broader subject of "judicial celebrity" and its pluses and minuses.
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Thanks, David. I acknowledge that my tweets (rants?!) do conflate these separate issues. Appreciate your wise perspectives on the issue of judicial celebrity. I have concerns about this; but political comments are more seriously problematic, imho.
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