The first Supreme Court confirmation vote that I paid attention to was that of Justice Clarence Thomas in Oct 1991. I asked if we could keep the TV on during dinner so that I could watch. I was in 9th grade.
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In the high school years that followed, President Bill Clinton was elected and I watched his nominations of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.
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I made it all the way through college, worked two years at a newspaper, went to law school, and started at a law firm before there was another vacancy.
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The other thing I realized tonight is that, when the vacancy left by Kennedy’s retirement is filled, two-thirds of the Supreme Court will have taken their seat on the high court since I became a lawyer. (As in, wow, I am getting older!)
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Those last 6 seats have included 9 nominations: O’Connor —> Roberts (withdrawn) Rehnquist —> Roberts O’Connor —> Miers (withdrawn) O’Connor —> Alito Souter —> Sotomayor Stevens —> Kagan Scalia —> Garland (not acted upon) Scalia —> Gorsuch Kennedy —> Kavanaugh
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In any event, the courts are really important, what the Supreme Court does is really important and history in the making, and if you had told 9th-grade me what my job would be today he would have fallen out of his chair at the dinner table with excitement and disbelief.
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Thanks for reading, and thanks to everyone who encouraged my obsessions when I was a student in Ohio, everyone who puts up with my obsessions now, & everyone in between. I’m honored and humbled on days like today that I get to do this work. I just try to do my best. Night, again!
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Hey how about you find out why Kennedy is in Austria
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Because ... he goes every year to teach a summer course?
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Ok but has anyone looked into what else he does there and exactly how many years has he been doing that?
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Here. It took literally five seconds to Google this. http://www.mcgeorge.edu/Anthony_Kennedy.htm …
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Same here, because I remember the Thomas hearings extremely well as a kid. Man I feel old.
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I was in college. Now I feel old. Humph.
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As of Kennedy's retirement, I will have *been alive* for every nomination. Also a milestone!
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And thank you for doing so for all the rest of us!
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Hopefully he gets “Borked” (that means he’s voted against. Look it up, people.)
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Really? .... Gosh..... I guess I have, too!! Yikes.
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No way!!???
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wow!
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