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Sunday, October 07, 2018

The Other Side of the Leftward Drift

A few years ago, I speculated:

The leftward drift of formerly-conservative Supreme Court Justices (discussed here) can be explained fairly easily. Much of the time, conservative is a synonym for “willing to crack down on people who are Not Like Us.” When such a conservative becomes a Supreme Court Justice, the people who are Like Us changes from the middle classes to the political activist class and the people who Not Like Us changes from the lower classes to state legislatures.
We now see the flip side of that: We have just confirmed a Supreme-Court Justice who was faced with some of the same tactics used to crack down on people who are Not Like Us: multiple charges so maybe one would stick, threats of draconian penalties in case of failure to cooperate, potential charges for allegedly-false statements, and of course trusting polygraphs. That may immunize him against the leftward drift. Kavanaugh may even be surprisingly liberal on defendant's rights.

On the other hand, don't count on that last.

Saturday, October 06, 2018

Conversation between 1978 Me and 2018 Me

1978 me: What's occurring in 2018?

2018 me: We might finally get enough judges on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade. They're holding hearings. There's a professor on one side and someone who spent his school years in a haze on the other.

1978 me: I hope the professor wins and that pro-abortion pothead loses!

2018 me: No, it's the guy in a haze who's backed by pro-lifers.

1978 me: What!?!?!

 
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