there’s more to it. part of what this crowd provides is an entire social world, and with it esteem and celebration. they are given awards and applause for their terrible decisions. that is as important, if not more, than the money.
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VC tech bros like andreesen, sacks, calacanis, etc have the riches a guy like thomas desires but live in a state of perpetual grievance because they are not feted the way that conservative luminaries in government are
This is exactly it. Self consciously so. The legal elites were a much more nationally united community in the 30s-60s. Relatively conservative members of it had to deal with a peer group that was heavily New Deal liberal. Now conservatives have successfully created an alternative elite ecosystem
yeah, the entire Federalist Society project exists to provide a comfortable cocoon within which these people will be feted for their loyalty and rewarded for it both materially and socially
they have no interest in one of their nominees ever pulling a Souter again
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Too few Americans understand that every single member of the Republican supreme court majority is a Catholic ideologue
...as are the two latest departures
Kennedy, Scalia
Too few Americans understand why:
https://www.ncronline.org/news/leonard-leo-has-reshaped-supreme-court-he-reshaping-catholic-university-too
> Bill Barr
You know who else?
> Don McGahn
You know who else?
> John Eastman
You know who else?
> John Durham
You know what's not a coincidence?
☝️ All of the above
they have no interest in one of their nominees ever pulling a Souter again