Morning Docket 5.08.09
* There has been plenty off talk about potential Supreme Court nominees, but how about the conservative groups gearing up to oppose them? [The Washington Post]
* Two highly qualified lesbians, Virginia Linder and Kathleen Sullivan, are apparently on Obama’s Supreme Court short list. [ABC News]
* The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Jeff Sessions, says that an openly gay Supreme Court nominee should be treated fairly “regardless of what kind of persuasion they may have.” [Fox News]
* Meanwhile Specter has lost his seniority on the Senate Judiciary Committee and will become the chairman of the subcommittee on crime and drugs. “What we don’t want is an angry former Republican during a Supreme Court hearing,” said a Democratic staffer. [Washington Post]
* Police continue to investigate mysteries surrounding the death of Robert Wone, a Washington lawyer who was murdered in 2006. [The Blog of Legal Times]
* Did you know there was an elite “Public Integrity Section” in the Department of Justice tasked with probing corruption charges of public officials? [The New York Times]
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Comments
First!
these pretzels are making me lick your pussy
How does someone become a "highly qualified lesbian"? Is there a certification process?
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/lgl/1159642218.html
...its funny cause its true
Shortlist candidate Diane Wood is a UT-Law graduate!
Section 90 Promissory Estoppel
The ship be sinking
The dow is up/down
First! Oh, wait, damn. Pretzels...
YOU ARE ALL IDIOTS
Pounding something in the ass.
3500 sq ft, wife, etc.
Nervous. T10.
Fire Elie, Elis is fat, Elie is ...
Guys at my high school used to . . .
Asslobster.
TTT
Quinn remains.
Limerick/poem.
NY to 190!
Dealbreaker ad blows. No it doesn't. Yes, it does.
PE (foot inserted in mouth after being in rear)
Anything > Latham
Your spelling/grammar sucks.
Wah wah wah shtick guy die.
FAIL
5 - refer to it as UTTTexas Law
Sorry, but if you fail the bar exam, even once, you should not be on the Supreme Court. No exceptions.
Actually, three lesbians if you include Pam Karlin on the short list, which I do. Also, best work yet out of you Eliza. Finally, the Public Integrity bureau is hardly a secret...
8, but what if they ROCKED that Con Law Section?
@5 - This just proves it: only steers and queers come from Texas.
LaTTTham
6, you forgot cockpunching, which I would gladly have done to me before I'd work at Latham.
Anything happen at White & Case??
So Bush nominates Harriet Miers, and the left starts ranting about how she is completely unqualified. But is she any less qualified than an elected judge who has only sat on her state's highest court for three years? Was Miers any less qualified than an academic who failed the bar exam only four years ago?
I'm not saying that Harriet Miers was qualified for the position, but why does being a lesbian suddenly make you worthy of being a Supreme Court justice?
15 - I think the rub is that these people are "short list" candidates not nominees. Big difference that . . .
13 -- cockpunching isn't shtick. It is more of a religious experience.
15, because a lesbian is per se "diverse." When the court is deciding a novel ERISA preemption issue, the desire to have sex with women introduces brand new perspectives that could never have come from a white male.
"In 2001, Michael Chertoff, the new assistant attorney general for the criminal division, decided to replace the Public Integrity Section’s longtime chief, Lee Radek."
That's a dealbreaker, ladies!
Just because you say highly qualified over and over doesn't make it so. If you fail the bar you are unqualified to be on the Supreme Court.
15 -
The cries from the Left I could have handled. That was to be expected. It would not have been a problem since Republicans were a majority in the Senate. However, it was the cries from Right; Coulter, Noonan, Malkin, Dobson, Norquist, et al., that led Turdblossom to recommend that we pull the plug on dear old Harriet. Too bad, she was doing one heckuva job.
8 is right. Sullivan would be an embarrassment.
Really? Failing the bar automatically disqualifies KS? So we'll just ignore she was the Dean of Stanford, and that she has repeatedly and successfully argued in front of the Supreme Court. Let's ignore that she has been a law professor specializing in Constitutional law for 25 years. Oh, and that she's the author of a leading casebook on Con Law.
24 years AFTER she graduated from Harvard, she took the CA bar, probably didn't prepare very thoroughly and failed.
I really think KS failing the CA bar says way more about the meaninglessness of the bar exam than it says about her qualifications (though it probably says as much about her ego. But really, when L. Tribe calls you the most extraordinary student he's ever had, you probably have a right to a big ego).
8 - nailed it. i mean she failed the effin bar. now watch obama go ahead and select her anyway...
#25... see #24. You've been pwned by someone who actually did their research.
24 -
Kathleen Sullivan actually - refreshingly for an academic, especially female - does not have too much of an ago problem. She would joke in class about failing the bar and once expalined her rationale for not studying too hard:
"I was really busy, and I figured...what's the worst that can happen? I fail it and I take it again...its not like its going to be on the front page of the Wall Street Journal or anything!"
Don't get me wrong...she kind of sucks...gave me a "B" but...have you seen Sotomayor? FREAKAY FREAKAY! She's retarded. So...Kathleen is better than her.
Pam Karlan would be the best. She's snarky and has some nice donkey-tits...
Chadbourne just lost four partners in its Moscow office to Dechert. This is huge news since C&P always aspired to be one of the best firms in Eastern Europe. Remember how Chadbourne picked up Thacher Proffitt's Mexico City office a bit before that firm dissolved? What are the implications?! Get on this!
I heard sullivan failed the ca bar. No way she gets nominated. She can't be that bright.
what is off talk?