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@EWess92 @DAGToddBlanche @TheJusticeDept Fair enough

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@llerer u spent months on this?? What is revelatory here or relevant to the election?

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@EoinHiggins_ Am I missing something? Nothing in this story is nearly as troubling as all the rumors made it out to be.

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@PollTracker2024 Wait this is the big hit piece lmaoo?

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@ettingermentum @davidslosttt The congressional black caucus and black leaders in state legislatures are just not gonna allow this

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@ettingermentum But isn't that just because activists learned the hard way that there is limited popular support for more aggressive reforms and moderated?

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@ettingermentum As a Democrat u either gotta be 0% racist or sincerely racist to have a shot - otherwise u look like a phony.

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@ettingermentum All posters on dem strategy appear to forget that the primary base is 40+ yr old moderate black voters and boomer white women.

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@KMC4wauk @ettingermentum Having two eyes two ears and a working neocortex

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@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

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@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.

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@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.

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@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.

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@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.

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@ettingermentum First speech post nomination is calling for a special prosecutor to investigate Biden coverup of his mental decline lmao

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@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

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@DaveV15 @conorsen Well idk what that means - Dems can’t 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.

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@DaveV15 @conorsen Eh maybe the rank and file but I get the sense the AI leaders, for example, are basically agnostic on democracy and US norms.