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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like her. [/quote]

Yep.  Me too.  She’ll be a good addition to the court.[/quote]

An associate professor with 3 years in the bench? Sure, she’s *exceptional.* :roll: [/quote]

Did you know that CHIEF JUSTICE Roberts had even less than three years on the bench?  Did you know that Justice Kagan had NO prior judicial experience?  Now you do. [/quote]

John Roberts was a highly accomplished lawyer who argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court. Kagan was Solicitor General.

This is absolutely no comparison between Roberts and Kagan, on one hand, and Amy, on the other. She is mediocrity at its finest. Shameful. [/quote]
An associate professor whose publications have had virtually no impact in the field. No litigation experience, only 3 years on the bench. She is the least qualified nominee in modern history.[/quote]
Actually, I think Harriet Miers might have been...but GWB (rightly) pulled her nomination.[/quote]
Yes, that was a stupid nomination but good that he saw sense and pulled it. Dems were not smart about this one. Instead of focusing on ideology, which was a losing proposition, they absolutely should have hammered again and again that Barrett does not have adequate credentials.[/quote]

I think it was political strategy. They didn't have the votes to block her nomination, so the goal was to use the hearings to get the best clips from a GOTV perspective. I think that's also why, as a PP pointed out, they focused more on generalities than on her specific legal writings (however thin those might be). Politically, I think it was probably good strategy...at least until Feinstein blew it by praising Graham.[/quote]

I get what you're saying but insisting upon her inadequate credentials would have better reinforced the overall illegitimacy of the process imo, and was the only thing that could have potentially changed a few Repub minds (if at all possible). Otherwise isn't it just pointless political theatre? And were there even really any great GOTV clips that came out of this? [/quote]

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