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This is fair as of today. But in 1971 Blackmun's votes looked so much like Burger's people called them the "Minnesota Twins." Not so later.
My new one @latimesopinion: Gorsuch is the new Scalia, just like Trump promisedhttp://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-gorsuch-scalia-20170627-story.html …
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Same drift won't ever happen again post-Souter. Stakes too high for GOP; only those bred and proven to be rock-ribbed make SCOTUS cut now.
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I wholly agree. But it takes more than a month, probably several terms in fact, for any justice to develop his or her philosophy.
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A lifetime in conservative legal movement and a decade on a federal appeals court seems enough for that, at least for an Associate Justice.
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Roberts' slight moderate drift can be chalked up to his institutional role in the Court that bears his name. Gorsuch won't have such concern
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See, e.g.,
@DanielJHemel in@ShallTakeCare highlighting institutional legitimacy concerns in Travel Ban per curiamhttps://takecareblog.com/blog/lower-courts-don-t-try-this-at-home … - 1 more reply
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Isn’t this contradictory?
#Scalia wasn’t always reliable. Conservatives really wanted Hyper-#Alito.#gorsuch#scotus http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-gorsuch-scalia-20170627-story.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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One of Trump's few promises delivered, so far.
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Democrats should impeach and remove him should they ever hold both houses of Congress again.
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