Something that hit me tonight: As of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement at the end of this month, I will have followed the nominations of every sitting justice.
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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 Roberts (withdrawn) Rehnquist —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 Miers (withdrawn) O’Connor —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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