It's hard for me to read this and not come away thinking that elite lawyers like @NoahRFeldman just see the law as a game. They have no concept of how ideological control of courts affects regular people's lives.
Like, seriously, Feldman's argument boils down to, yes, Barrett's decisions would literally kill people and strip them of fundamental rights, but we ran in the same elite social circles and that's more relevant to whether she's qualified.
Feldman is in no danger if Barrett strikes down the ACA, or lets states jail women for abortion, or ends gun control, or shuts down programs that help Black people get into the school where he teaches.
He might "disagree" if she does this, but he clearly can live with it.
They did this with Kavanaugh too. Oh, he's a great carpool dad! And he gave Amy Chua's daughter a job!
Who the fuck cares? I literally don't give a shit who he is as a person, and if I did, the measure of it was how he treated Christine Blasey Ford, not his equals in academia.
I'm truly sick of all these pompous Ivy League law professors lecturing the left to consider judges only on their degrees and connections, as Republicans transform the Supreme Court into a political weapon.
They live in a toxic bubble of their own social status.
We need fewer takes on the judiciary from people like this, and more from public defenders, immigration lawyers — attorneys who may not have an Ivy diploma and cocktail parties with circuit judges, but are on the front lines of defending the rights of the downtrodden.
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