Kavanaugh Confirmation

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evillawyer said:
New piece by Ben Wittes

I Know Brett Kavanaugh, but I Wouldn’t Confirm Him
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WASHINGTON POST RAISED NO CONCERNS ABOUT JUSTICE BREYER’S FITNESS AFTER REPORTING HE WAS ARRESTED FOR UNDERAGE DRINKING

The Washington Post paid little attention to the fact that Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer was arrested as a student at Stanford University for underage drinking in a profile of him in 1994.

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a brief biography of the judge’s youth shortly after Breyer’s nomination by President Bill Clinton. A staunch member of the progressive wing of the Supreme Court — as well at the time the the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals — Breyer is seen by many legal scholars as the opposite of more originalist jurists like Justice Samuel Alito.
In his piece, Gladwell describes the future justice’s career, which followed a “quintessential legal trajectory” and included his membership of Phi Beta Kappa at Stanford, a masters from Oxford University, a law degree obtained through Harvard University and eventually a clerkship at the Supreme Court.

Yet Gladwell’s fawning also includes a bit of an embarrassing tidbit about Breyer’s past, which includes “getting arrested at one point for underage drinking” as a denizen at Stanford. (RELATED: Justice Breyer Draws Laughs With ‘Drain The Swamp’ References In Endangered Frog Case)
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Gladwell devotes a total of one sentence to the incident, before quickly explaining how Breyer “received just one B” as an undergrad before winning a Marshall scholarship to Oxford.

Breyer’s treatment by a then-Post correspondent contrasts with the paper’s coverage of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, despite extremely similar educational and social backgrounds.

Washington Post Raised No Concerns About Justice Breyer’s Fitness After Reporting He Was Arrested For Underage Drinking
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
WASHINGTON POST RAISED NO CONCERNS ABOUT JUSTICE BREYER’S FITNESS AFTER REPORTING HE WAS ARRESTED FOR UNDERAGE DRINKING

The Washington Post paid little attention to the fact that Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer was arrested as a student at Stanford University for underage drinking in a profile of him in 1994.

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a brief biography of the judge’s youth shortly after Breyer’s nomination by President Bill Clinton. A staunch member of the progressive wing of the Supreme Court — as well at the time the the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals — Breyer is seen by many legal scholars as the opposite of more originalist jurists like Justice Samuel Alito.
In his piece, Gladwell describes the future justice’s career, which followed a “quintessential legal trajectory” and included his membership of Phi Beta Kappa at Stanford, a masters from Oxford University, a law degree obtained through Harvard University and eventually a clerkship at the Supreme Court.

Yet Gladwell’s fawning also includes a bit of an embarrassing tidbit about Breyer’s past, which includes “getting arrested at one point for underage drinking” as a denizen at Stanford. (RELATED: Justice Breyer Draws Laughs With ‘Drain The Swamp’ References In Endangered Frog Case)
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Gladwell devotes a total of one sentence to the incident, before quickly explaining how Breyer “received just one B” as an undergrad before winning a Marshall scholarship to Oxford.

Breyer’s treatment by a then-Post correspondent contrasts with the paper’s coverage of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, despite extremely similar educational and social backgrounds.

Washington Post Raised No Concerns About Justice Breyer’s Fitness After Reporting He Was Arrested For Underage Drinking
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For God's sake, quit attacking strawmen. No one is arguing that underage drinking disqualifies K. However to the issue of whether he would have remembered assaulting Ford and whether his testimony about his prior drinking was truthful are implicated
 
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evillawyer said:
For God's sake, quit attacking strawmen. No one is arguing that underage drinking disqualifies K. However to the issue of whether he would have remembered assaulting Ford and whether his testimony about his prior drinking was truthful.
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