@ettingermentum But isn't that just because activists learned the hard way that there is limited popular support for more aggressive reforms and moderated?
@EWess92 This case is . . . strange - Texas conceded his intellectual disability per IQ scores in the state court and the judge rejected the concession then didnt account for Flynn effect although both experts used it. Not sure how the court can be comfortable w no stay on that record
@joshtpm@ProfDBernstein@TPM Lastly, there has been tons of recent scholarship published by legal academics at elite institutions arguing for aggressive federal court reform or jurisdiction stripping. My sense is the writer is simply not paying all that much attention.
@joshtpm@ProfDBernstein@TPM 3. The number of professors with judicial pull is very small. The vast majority of "legal elites" in academia are not that well-connected and have little to nothing to do with clerkships outside of LoRs. Idea that clerkships are driving anything generally is silly.
@joshtpm@ProfDBernstein@TPM 2. there is no biglaw reward for ideology outside of small appellate groups at certain firms. Liberal and conservative lawyers are doing the same stuff and evaluated on same basis so I am not sure what the "hack" gap could be in that respect.
@joshtpm@ProfDBernstein@TPM For one, you cannot get a COA clerkship with bad grades outside of personal connections. A conservative COA judge may reach to median for a well-connected candidate at a top school, but certainly not below that.
@DaveV15@conorsen I don't think there's much evidence for that position and I think public opinion gonna get worse as AI companies ask communities for more resources
@DaveV15@conorsen Well idk what that means - Dems canโt run on a pro-AI policy agenda and win elections bc people hate AI and its leadership. Sasha Baker probably thinks they should do otherwise lol.