if you think the “savior” comment is a mischaracterization, fair enough, but i don’t know how to read something like the blow as anything other than favorable press for Amy Coney Barrett - ThreadSky

notalawyer.bsky.social • 3 days ago

if you think the “savior” comment is a mischaracterization, fair enough, but i don’t know how to read something like the blow as anything other than favorable press for Amy Coney Barrett

Reposted from Mark Joseph Stern

I had been dying to ask @dahlialithwick.bsky.social about Amy Coney Barrett’s recent defections from the right and the growing gender divide on the court that they reflect. She had a lot of thoughts. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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msgl.bsky.social•2 days ago

Odd to see a 53 year old woman called "young". Usually by that age we have become invisible old crones.

lawsarentreal.bsky.social•3 days ago

"This is a fresh faced person really curious about how the world works"... yes when I see a 53 year old I think wide eyed and bushy tailed, like a sweet babe born yesterday waiting to imprint on something

bojacksoncentipede.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lot of willful misreading itt. Glad to see Bluesky already turning into Twitter w shitty gotcha politics

bojacksoncentipede.bsky.social•1 day ago

Then you're terrible at reading.

0mphaloskeptic.bsky.social•2 days ago

The only appropriate place for that quote would be in a puff piece or hagiography about Coney Barrett. Her body of work as a judge makes a mockery of that description of her.

meh333.bsky.social•2 days ago

Some ppl have spent their entire careers in deference to the court and it’s difficult for them to resist the impulse. Dahlia has even spoken about this, but recognizing you have a problem and solving it are two different things.

smaaaashbro.bsky.social•2 days ago

Also foolish to frame her most relevant background as academia rather than the church imo (especially given her religion permeates her actual academic output in a deeply unserious way)

mjsdc.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don’t believe in withholding approval of the rare good decision from a bad justice just because I disagree with her most of the time. And I think our readers and listeners are sophisticated enough to grasp the conflict and nuance here.

brianjrees.bsky.social•2 days ago

broken clock will only ever be right twice a day

lovedrugslaw.bsky.social•2 days ago

I am sophisticated, but this shit reads like you want to clerk for her.

orangejuliusesq.bsky.social•2 days ago

wow that’s so Brave and Important of you

johncastiglione.bsky.social•2 days ago

Whoa whoa. "Fresh faced person" with a curious personality is not "this judge decided correctly on this case"

jackiegardina.bsky.social•2 days ago

💯I agreed with Justice Scalia on several cases involving constitutional criminal procedure.

notalawyer.bsky.social•2 days ago

are we reading the same thing? the quote above isn’t “approval of the rare good decision,” there’s literally nothing about any decision, it is basically a glowing character profile. “young,” “fresh-faced,” “curious” about a 53 year-old dedicated movement conservative? come on.

boendercarol.bsky.social•2 days ago

But this is all in comparison to the other conservatives on the bench, no? It doesn't read like a celebration of ACB, just a conversation about how she's different.

bvimarlins.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yea she's not, thats the entire problem

docstock.bsky.social•2 days ago

Terminal Fancy Lawyer Brain strikes again, I’m afraid.

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