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SCOTUS, DBCFT, and Hitler's Highways

Explain It to Me

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Do You Think Neil Gorsuch Will Be a Good Judge?

I think my answer on this has actually changed in the what, like 12 days of the Trump administration. It feels like the liberal side has been shockingly effective and excited to be fucking angry right now. There's a problem that we have hit upon in judicial confirmations, which is that increasingly over time senators have become reluctant to vote yes for judges who they think will be bad. And I just feel like we're getting to the bottom of that well where like the filibuster has been eroded rightly for everything except Supreme Court judges.

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