@reagent
>you gotta put up this bullshit routine of "respect for precedent" to get confirmed
>behavior that makes you a good jurist can look bad in the Senate, because politics is quite different from law
It's a damn shame, because we're basically surrendering law to politics. However, it seems as if the conservative always has to defend - in the public and official space - the 'liberal' precedents, even if they actually overturned former precedents. On the other hand, the 'liberal' simply claims some automatic high ground and never has to defend ANYTHING in the law, even their pro-'liberal' precedents which overturned 100's of years of tradition cementing highly important social mores. Conservatives, on shit like SSM, all say "Oh well, we can't overturn it now, it'll cause too much of a stink".
It's as if western civilization is a beautiful Greek statue, perfectly carved, and the Liberals keep coming at it with chisels, chopping off limbs, and we successfully defend certain attacks, but not all, but never even attempt to repair any damage, always retain it in a state of 'conservatism'. It's frustrating the shit outta me. Something has to give. We need to storm some damn Castles and throw these people from the walls.
@Walter Johnson
>Yeah they more or less have to give vague nonanswers for everything
I sure hope that's all it is. In Kavanaugh's case, he has seemingly, under pressure, done more than manke vague answers (as in the gay cakes case) ... let's just hope it is simply insincere rhetoric, pragmatism.
