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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Sep 2020

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted David Frum

      This continues to be sadhttps://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1309848115802001409 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      David FrumVerified account @davidfrum
      I'm worried by a judge who'd accept a nomination under these circumstances.
      11 replies 2 retweets 70 likes
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    2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      But not wrong.

      5 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom

      I think if you're asked to serve the American public, and can do so in a manner that elevates public service & protects the Constitution, you do that.

      5 replies 3 retweets 40 likes
    4. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Everything after "and" is the problem, but power is power and for a Justice, how you get it is eventually forgotten.

      4 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom

      Serious question: should John Marshall have turned down his appointment as Chief Justice?

      3 replies 8 retweets 35 likes
    6. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Good Lord.

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom

      He was appointed by a president who had already lost the election, confirmed by a Senate that had, too. Is that not your issue? Or are you proposing some one-time-only, Trump-specific standard?

      4 replies 6 retweets 58 likes
    8. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      No, this is just like John Marshall. Good point.

      4 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom

      Argument from incredulity is not a basis for having standards. Look, this is my area of expertise. I've studied it in depth. I've proposed a standard based on that study. Do you have such a proposal?

      4 replies 0 retweets 23 likes
    10. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      This isn’t a matter of expertise. “What about John Marshall” isn’t a standard. Like Frum and others, I fundamentally distrust the motives of anyone who accepts an appointment from Trump about anything. That’s a judgement on my part. It’s not case law.

      11 replies 4 retweets 39 likes
      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom

      This is textbook Bulverism, and it would justify rejecting the counsel of experts in any situation - which is every situation - in which motives could be impugned. Tom, you magnificent bastard, I read your book.

      6:13 PM - 26 Sep 2020
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      5 replies 3 retweets 21 likes
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        2. Emilio Bazzarelli‏ @EmilioBazzarel1 27 Sep 2020
          Replying to @Steel94010 @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          So were all the Republican lawyers

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        2. Heidi Bailey‏ @DOTsGtGrandbaby 26 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          I see this as a problem on which experts from different disciplines would diverge.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Sep 2020
          Replying to @DOTsGtGrandbaby @baseballcrank

          Value judgments like “should I trust the appointees of a bad person“ are not amenable to expert dispute.

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
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        2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Cloaking value judgements in expertise is how experts end up undermining their own authority. “Accept my framing of a judgment and a preference l want as expert authority” is as old as expertise itself.

          1 reply 3 retweets 19 likes
        3. Louis Ingenthron‏ @LouisIngenthron 26 Sep 2020
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank

          Every time you two argue on Twitter, a couple hundred people get marginally smarter.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Vince‏ @VanillaMag1lla 26 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          Should Trump lose & the Senate flip to the Dems mere days after her hasty, partisan confirmation, ACB’s appointment might very well be mark the inflection point for the legitimacy of SCOTUS.

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