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  • #1021
    Re: The Power of SCOTUS V: The Final Frontier

    Pretty soon money won't be enough to buy influence in elections. They're ramping it up in Texas.

    http://www.reviewjournal.com/trendin...-votes-cocaine
    That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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    • #1022
      Re: The Power of SCOTUS V: The Final Frontier

      Interesting piece.
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      • #1023
        Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
        It's my understanding that many of the PACs are prohibited from donating directly to candidates...
        Correct. They also cannot "coordinate" with campaigns, though as Colbert pointed out, there are numerous ways to get around that.

        Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
        and can only engage in "issues advocacy" in which they are barred from mentioning any candidate either in favor of or opposed to
        Mostly incorrect. It is clear you don't live in a swing state, because Super PAC ads out number official campaign ads by probably a 3-1 margin, and they all mention candidates by name. The only thing they're explicitly forbidden from saying is "vote for/against x." Nothing prohibits them from saying "candidate x is good/bad for state" or "x receives billionaire money. He's got Washington values, not state values" or any other of the multitude of ways to say "vote for x" without saying "vote for x."

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        • #1024
          Re: The Power of SCOTUS V: The Final Frontier

          Originally posted by unofan View Post
          Nothing prohibits them from saying "candidate x is good/bad for state" or "x receives billionaire money. He's got Washington values, not state values" or any other of the multitude of ways to say "vote for x" without saying "vote for x."
          You can also just shake the camera and play scary music.
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          • #1025
            Re: The Power of SCOTUS V: The Final Frontier

            The Liberals are coming!! The Liberals are coming!!!
            Emergency ! Emergency! ! Everyone to get from street!!!

            http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/25/ru...supreme-court/
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            • #1026
              Originally posted by joecct View Post
              The Liberals are coming!! The Liberals are coming!!!
              Emergency ! Emergency! ! Everyone to get from street!!!

              http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/25/ru...supreme-court/
              Uhhh

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              • #1027
                Re: The Power of SCOTUS V: The Final Frontier

                Originally posted by joecct View Post
                The Liberals are coming!! The Liberals are coming!!!
                Emergency ! Emergency! ! Everyone to get from street!!!
                Norman Jewison autorec.
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                • #1028
                  Re: The Power of SCOTUS V: The Final Frontier

                  Originally posted by joecct View Post
                  The Liberals are coming!! The Liberals are coming!!!
                  Emergency ! Emergency! ! Everyone to get from street!!!

                  http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/25/ru...supreme-court/
                  Holder is 63; the GOP wishes he'd be nominated. We may never see a nominee over 55 again.

                  In other news, does anybody else remember when Cato was smart? Now they're just another foothill of bullsht mountain.
                  Last edited by Kepler; 09-25-2014, 05:55 PM.
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                  • #1029
                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    Holder is 63; the GOP wishes he'd be nominated. We may never see a nominee over 55 again.

                    In other news, does anybody else remember when Cato was smart? Now they're just another foothill of bullsht mountain.
                    That would break the Harvard lock on the court wouldn't it?
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                    • #1030
                      Re: The Power of SCOTUS V: The Final Frontier

                      Originally posted by joecct View Post
                      That would break the Harvard lock on the court wouldn't it?
                      Columbia.

                      Thomas is Yale. I don't know about the rest.
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                      • #1031
                        Re: The Power of SCOTUS V: The Final Frontier

                        Justice: Undergrad / Law School

                        Roberts: Harvard / Harvard
                        Scalia: Georgetown / Harvard
                        Kennedy: Stanford / Harvard
                        Thomas: Holy Cross / Yale
                        Ginsburg: Cornell / Columbia
                        Breyer: Stanford / Harvard
                        Alito: Princeton / Yale
                        Sotomayor: Princeton / Yale
                        Kagan: Princeton / Harvard
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                        • #1032
                          Re: The Power of SCOTUS V: The Final Frontier

                          Yeesh. I suppose they all graduated from those schools before nepotism took hold.
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                          • #1033
                            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                            Yeesh. I suppose they all graduated from those schools before nepotism took hold.
                            A lot of it is the modern confirmation process. There is pretty much a set path to get to SCOTUS. Top 50 undergrad + top 7 law school + SCOTUS or Federal Circuit Court clerkship + high end private practice or top 5 academic career + federal circuit court appointment or solicitor General work = shortlist for SCOTUS nomination.

                            You can't vary from that formula without getting hammered at the confirmation hearings, because there will always be others who met that formula and would therefore be "more qualified" for the opposition to use as ammo.

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                            • #1034
                              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                              Justice: Undergrad / Law School

                              Roberts: Harvard / Harvard
                              Scalia: Georgetown / Harvard
                              Kennedy: Stanford / Harvard
                              Thomas: Holy Cross / Yale
                              Ginsburg: Cornell / Columbia
                              Breyer: Stanford / Harvard
                              Alito: Princeton / Yale
                              Sotomayor: Princeton / Yale
                              Kagan: Princeton / Harvard
                              That's the common denominator - Ivy law school. What happened to Michigan?
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                              • #1035
                                Re: The Power of SCOTUS V: The Final Frontier

                                Originally posted by joecct View Post
                                That's the common denominator - Ivy law school. What happened to Michigan?
                                Michigan lost to Minnesota.
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