Breyer Out Forum

[Anonymous User]

If you're all for Asian representation on the federal courts, don't forget who filibustered Goodwin Liu when Obama nominated him to the Ninth Circuit.

Similarly, if you're all for Black female representation on the federal courts, don't forget who filibustered Janice Rogers Brown when George W. Bush nominated her to the D.C. Circuit. And if you're all for Hispanic representation on the federal courts, don't forget who filibustered Miguel Estrada when George W. Bush nominated him to the D.C. Circuit. And if you're all for female representation on the federal courts, don't forget who filibustered Pricilla Owen and Carolyn Kuhl when George W. Bush nominated them to the Fifth and Ninth Circuits.

The ironic thing is that filibustering Carolyn Kuhl probably ended up moving the Ninth Circuit to the right once Ikuta took her spot.

[Anonymous User]

Putting aside its merits (on which I'm conflicted) and constitutionality (think it's totally consistent w/history + purpose of the EPC), ending affirmative action will make SCOTUS more, not less popular with the American public, and I really hope the Democrats aren't dumb enough to make it a campaign issue in midterms/2024

Would have hoped they'd learned something from ballot initiative the failures in majority-minority California in 2020. Not optimistic... seems like advisors live in this professional-upper-middle-class bubble where "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race" is viewed as punch line and not an indictment.

I get that practically speaking, Dems don't have to try to appeal to (a lot of) the professional-UMC crowd and need to work on appealing to (more) working class voters, but I never understand why one group is viewed as a "bubble" and the other is somehow a monolithic "American public" (implied to be the "real" America).

But I'm also not sure that being in opposition to SCOTUS ending AA is going to translate to running on the issue. Abortion seems much more likely.

Both “real America” and the “bubble” are bubbly, but the latter dominates powerful institutions in both the public and private sector, which is why it’s seen as more problematic. Plus “real Americans” gets heavy doses of the coastal worldview from the media but vice versa isn’t true. As a “real American” who by now is thoroughly in the “bubble” I wish that more “real Americans” didn’t believe absurd stereotypes about Chicago and that more “bubbleites” didn’t believe absurd stereotypes about Kansas, but the latter issue is more corrosive to the body politic.

[Anonymous User]

To get away from the discourse about AA (not part of this thread not part of the process by Biden), does anyone know if Childs was a management or employee side l&e attorney? We certainly do not need a management hack on the Court (amongst other management hacks). She is certainly impressive.

what specifically is impressive about her, to you? (genuinely curious)

[Anonymous User]

To get away from the discourse about AA (not part of this thread not part of the process by Biden), does anyone know if Childs was a management or employee side l&e attorney? We certainly do not need a management hack on the Court (amongst other management hacks). She is certainly impressive.

what specifically is impressive about her, to you? (genuinely curious)

She actually seems less credentialed than other candidates (UofSC, smaller firm background) and I kinda like it.