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Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social |
Your miserable fact of the day: The last time a Democratic president got to fill the seat of a departing conservative Supreme Court justice was in 1962. (it was Byron White)
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PJA
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Clinton replaced White with Ginsburg, and White would fairly be called conservative by that point
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Henning Tveit
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To depoliticise the court: draw randomly three justices to handle any case.
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Ankylodad
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Wonderful system we have here. Top notch. A+, no notes.
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Michael Ditto
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Ahh yess, Whizzer White, everyone’s favorite football justice and anti-abortion extremist whose hate for teh gay was only matched by Antonin Scalia and Sam Alito. My old boss Mark Udall once had to walk back a claim that Whizzer White (D-Colo) was his favorite SCOTUS justice.
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Jeff (no, the other one)
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I have a great NFL publications book from '74 w article on White. Johnny (Blood) McNally was his teammate & was part of a group talking about how to go about possibly drafting White (who could take 0 part in any hint of a campaign) for the Dem POTUS nomination if a better candidate didn't come along
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