@PaulMSherman@OrinKerr If you just attended MCLE that was either interesting or useful, you could advance your career. If you treat it like a punch card that means nothing, you will get nothing.
@OrinKerr The great judges of the past (Weinstein, Weinfeld, Posner, Learned Hand, Friendly) were less ideological. Thus, the results of their opinions seemed driven by analysis — rather than reverse engineered to land at their ideologically preferred outcome.
@OrinKerr My view is that it is (a) and (b). From the 1970s to 2016, both parties tended to appoint more high quality judges and fewer hacks. And, (b) improves the quality of the hacks.
OTOH
Both parties have tended toward younger more ideologically predictable judges.
@dorfonlaw Kavanaugh’s opinion reads like a 5-4 majority opinion. At some point, Jackson changed her vote and joined the dissenters, who thereby became the majority.
@JoeDudekJD I have the Second Edition from law school days and the Seventh Edition from when we still had books in the law library. It is one of the best law books.