Don't you dare look away now if you like your life

[sovay]

We could really use that golem of Louis D. Brandeis right about now.

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[moon_custafer]

I’ve seen other people noting this today and claiming the Democratic presidents try to install Chief Justices with, y’know, actual large quantities of experience whereas the Republicans put in ones who’ll toe the party line for as many decades to come as possible...

I freely admit my bias.

[kore]

Oh that's interesting. Because the Wiki page has their age at nomination and who nominated them:

Roberts - 50, W
Kennedy - 51, Reagan
Thomas - 43 (!!), W Sr
RBG - 60, Clinton
Breyer - 55, Clinton
Alito - 55, W
Sotomayor - 55, Obama
Kagan - 50, Obama
Gorsuch - 49, Cheetolini

(Scalia was 50, O'Connor 51 and Rehnquist 62 when they were nominated by Reagan.)

So it looks like no Democrat nominated someone under 50 (take Kagan out and that goes up to 55) and no Republican nominated someone over 55, or over 60 if you take out Rehnquist).

What also sucks is if I'm reading this right Kennedy is the one with the most seniority on the court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_Justices_by_time_in_office

The one after him is CLARENCE THOMAS, BARF, and then RBG. That's a whole lot of institutional knowledge and experience going with Kennedy, even if he was a fucking coward at the end.

Merrick Garland fits the Dem pattern, he was 63 when Obama nominated him.

[sovay]

Merrick Garland fits the Dem pattern, he was 63 when Obama nominated him.

I am still angry about Garland and I expect to be for a long, long, long time.

[kore]

That was what made me hate Mitch McConnell more than some of my dreadful, abusive blood relatives! Like, personally.