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Some good new Sotomayor transcript gems from yesterday

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excitant bat shit crazy church elastic band
  03/21/18
I'm fairly sophisticated I'm fairly sophisticated I'm fair...
Cream Mildly Autistic Stag Film Keepsake Machete
  03/21/18
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bipolar heaven hominid
  03/21/18
Read that as "It's fairly sophisticated" the first...
Green gunner
  03/21/18
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Brass Thriller Senate Potus
  03/21/18
Was this part of the record or, as Kennedy implied, did she ...
Razzle-dazzle godawful den jewess
  03/21/18
did her own research as far as I can tell
excitant bat shit crazy church elastic band
  03/21/18
Ends justify the means with libs They will never criticiz...
Yellow partner voyeur
  03/21/18
Not to defend TWL, but appellate judges do this kind of shit...
Rose hell
  03/21/18
But Posner is a POS judge.
Swashbuckling ratface headpube
  03/21/18
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Sapphire sound barrier
  03/21/18
While it is true judges frequently break the rules, it doesn...
magenta sex offender
  03/21/18
Whether it breaks the rules depends on the circumstances tho...
Rose hell
  03/21/18
I wasn't giving a view on the propriety of Sotomayor's resea...
magenta sex offender
  03/21/18
There is no guarantee that the ad she looked at is the ad at...
Swashbuckling ratface headpube
  03/21/18
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racy factory reset button
  10/07/21
Both are wrong.
dashing clown
  03/21/18
there was a case about how long it took union members to put...
rusted pea-brained site dog poop
  03/22/18
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jet exhilarant public bath quadroon
  03/22/18
#MeTwink
rusted pea-brained site dog poop
  03/22/18
fucking garbage. He also reversed a case on the medical stan...
Fluffy bronze chapel
  03/22/18
almost certainly the news stories about Posner and his publi...
rusted pea-brained site dog poop
  03/22/18
lol
Fishy Stage Roast Beef
  03/22/18
Going outside the record is some bullshit.
Swashbuckling ratface headpube
  03/21/18
Yeah. This includes the frequent refs you see to social scie...
magenta sex offender
  03/21/18
I don't mind when trial judges bring factual shit up sua spo...
Swashbuckling ratface headpube
  03/21/18
Thugs in black robes, etc.
dashing clown
  03/21/18
http://www.abajournal.com/images/main_images/FO_478_FINAL_12...
rusted pea-brained site dog poop
  03/22/18
Roberts barely concealing his contempt for the Wise Latina
lascivious puce fanboi rehab
  03/21/18
If a freaking CJOTUSSC is willing to talk like that on the r...
Ocher fear-inspiring chad
  03/22/18
oh what an exemplary. such anathema.
startling cracking bbw generalized bond
  03/21/18
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Pontificating odious crotch
  03/21/18
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jet exhilarant public bath quadroon
  03/21/18
Lol @ the man who premised his Citizens United opinion on an...
Hairraiser juggernaut death wish
  03/21/18
Those are two unrelated things, and they had reargument on t...
Swashbuckling ratface headpube
  03/21/18
More egregious to raise an unbriefed issue than to refer to ...
Hairraiser juggernaut death wish
  03/21/18
Kennedy is absolutely TTT, but if there is an actual disposi...
Swashbuckling ratface headpube
  03/21/18
Usually SCOTUS says "we avoid broad constitutional ruli...
Hairraiser juggernaut death wish
  03/21/18
You can't allow retarded attorneys and technical waiver rule...
dashing clown
  03/21/18
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rusted pea-brained site dog poop
  03/22/18
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bonkers sanctuary
  03/21/18
I don't understand. None of this is about working at Nordstr...
irradiated trust fund really tough guy
  03/21/18
PRORE TERR: calling it Nordstrom's instead of the correct No...
Cream Mildly Autistic Stag Film Keepsake Machete
  03/21/18
Lmao
Brass Thriller Senate Potus
  03/21/18
Sotomayor is like some kind of sick joke, derailing SCOTUS ...
Walnut Thirsty Stain Set
  03/21/18
Thomas, J., laying down the law: https://www.youtube.com/...
Sapphire sound barrier
  03/21/18
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Green gunner
  03/22/18
Pure pwnage by Kennedy.
dashing clown
  03/21/18
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transparent kitty cat parlor
  10/07/21


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Date: March 21st, 2018 5:43 PM
Author: excitant bat shit crazy church elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655201)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 5:44 PM
Author: Cream Mildly Autistic Stag Film Keepsake Machete

I'm fairly sophisticated

I'm fairly sophisticated

I'm fairly sophisticated

I'm fairly sophisticated

I'm fairly sophisticated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655208)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 5:45 PM
Author: bipolar heaven hominid



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655215)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:42 PM
Author: Green gunner

Read that as "It's fairly sophisticated" the first time

LOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655756)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:45 PM
Author: Brass Thriller Senate Potus



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655795)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 5:46 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle godawful den jewess

Was this part of the record or, as Kennedy implied, did she do her own research? JFC libs explain yourselves.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655225)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 5:46 PM
Author: excitant bat shit crazy church elastic band

did her own research as far as I can tell

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655231)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 5:50 PM
Author: Yellow partner voyeur

Ends justify the means with libs

They will never criticize her as long as she’s a safe lefty vote

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655273)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:24 PM
Author: Rose hell

Not to defend TWL, but appellate judges do this kind of shit all the time. Including reptiles, including at SCOTUS. Amicus briefs exist to give the Court a citable source for claims well outside the record even though there is no check on those briefs' accuracy. At the COA level, Posner actively advocated for judges doing their own factual research.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655583)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:34 PM
Author: Swashbuckling ratface headpube

But Posner is a POS judge.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655688)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:45 PM
Author: Sapphire sound barrier



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655790)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:36 PM
Author: magenta sex offender

While it is true judges frequently break the rules, it doesn't make me feel better about it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655702)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:43 PM
Author: Rose hell

Whether it breaks the rules depends on the circumstances though. There is a difference between visiting a crime scene to discount eye-witness testimony and going to a website to look at an ad that is at issue in the case. I don't know enough about this case to say whether the information Soto got online was improper or not. There are arguments dating back nearly a century (maybe longer) about what kind of extra-record factual info appellate courts can properly consider.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655769)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:47 PM
Author: magenta sex offender

I wasn't giving a view on the propriety of Sotomayor's research here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655811)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:50 PM
Author: Swashbuckling ratface headpube

There is no guarantee that the ad she looked at is the ad at issue in the case, though. People change their websites. If the ad is *actually* at issue in the case, it will be in the record.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655838)



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Date: October 7th, 2021 2:38 PM
Author: racy factory reset button



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#43237122)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:56 PM
Author: dashing clown

Both are wrong.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655910)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 9:43 AM
Author: rusted pea-brained site dog poop

there was a case about how long it took union members to put on and take off their clothes/uniforms. Posner had his clerks do it and Posner timed them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35660157)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 9:45 AM
Author: jet exhilarant public bath quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35660171)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 10:34 AM
Author: rusted pea-brained site dog poop

#MeTwink

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35660502)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 9:51 AM
Author: Fluffy bronze chapel

fucking garbage. He also reversed a case on the medical standard of care based on what he found on the Mayo Clinic website

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35660215)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 10:35 AM
Author: rusted pea-brained site dog poop

almost certainly the news stories about Posner and his public comments were a major reason the ABA issued that new opinion.

also, the MSM are saying that no one batted an eye when Roberts did what Soto just got slapped for. true. but since the Roberts thing, the new opinion came out and all the judges were educated about it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35660515)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: Fishy Stage Roast Beef

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35660638)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:33 PM
Author: Swashbuckling ratface headpube

Going outside the record is some bullshit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655673)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:38 PM
Author: magenta sex offender

Yeah. This includes the frequent refs you see to social science crap since the Brandeis brief, in my view - but as to plainly adjudicative facts, wtf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655722)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:52 PM
Author: Swashbuckling ratface headpube

I don't mind when trial judges bring factual shit up sua sponte, as long as they give you an opportunity to address it with your own evidence, but once the evidentiary record is fixed it's even worse. This isn't "judicial notice" type of stuff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655863)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:57 PM
Author: dashing clown

Thugs in black robes, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655916)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 9:41 AM
Author: rusted pea-brained site dog poop

http://www.abajournal.com/images/main_images/FO_478_FINAL_12_07_17.pdf

Formal Opinion 478 December 8, 2017

Independent Factual Research by Judges Via the Internet

Easy access to a vast amount of information available on the Internet exposes judges to potential ethical problems. Judges risk violating the Model Code of Judicial Conduct by searching the Internet for information related to participants or facts in a proceeding. Independent investigation of adjudicative facts generally is prohibited unless the information is properly subject to judicial notice. The restriction on independent investigation includes individuals subject to the judge’s direction and control. 1

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35660148)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 5:47 PM
Author: lascivious puce fanboi rehab

Roberts barely concealing his contempt for the Wise Latina

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655241)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 10:37 AM
Author: Ocher fear-inspiring chad

If a freaking CJOTUSSC is willing to talk like that on the record you can imagine how bad it is behind closed doors.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35660526)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 5:50 PM
Author: startling cracking bbw generalized bond

oh what an exemplary. such anathema.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655278)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:43 PM
Author: Pontificating odious crotch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655771)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 5:52 PM
Author: jet exhilarant public bath quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655296)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:31 PM
Author: Hairraiser juggernaut death wish

Lol @ the man who premised his Citizens United opinion on an issue no one raised or briefed lecturing someone else for looking "outside the record."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655646)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:35 PM
Author: Swashbuckling ratface headpube

Those are two unrelated things, and they had reargument on that issue, right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655697)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:39 PM
Author: Hairraiser juggernaut death wish

More egregious to raise an unbriefed issue than to refer to publicly available tangential facts outside the record during oral argument. Apparently waiver rules mean nothing if Kennedy wants to write a TTT opinion. And I agree with scalia that Kennedy is TTT.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655726)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: Swashbuckling ratface headpube

Kennedy is absolutely TTT, but if there is an actual dispositive constitutional issue that would render other bases for decision null, I'm not sure if it's wrong to raise that. Maybe I could be convinced otherwise.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655887)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:28 PM
Author: Hairraiser juggernaut death wish

Usually SCOTUS says "we avoid broad constitutional rulings if possible."

The bigger issue is that both the "liberal" bloc (in Obergefell) and the "more conservative" bloc (in Citizens United and probably in Janus) sign on to Kennedy's TTT opinions because they need his vote. Apparently he's so thin-skinned that he'd vote the other way if anyone ever called him on his shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35656173)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:59 PM
Author: dashing clown

You can't allow retarded attorneys and technical waiver rules to force the SCOTUS to change the meaning of the Constitution.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655926)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 9:43 AM
Author: rusted pea-brained site dog poop



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35660161)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:41 PM
Author: bonkers sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655740)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:34 PM
Author: irradiated trust fund really tough guy

I don't understand. None of this is about working at Nordstrom's

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655685)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:36 PM
Author: Cream Mildly Autistic Stag Film Keepsake Machete

PRORE TERR: calling it Nordstrom's instead of the correct Nordstrom, like "Tiffany's" instead of Tiffany

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655707)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:45 PM
Author: Brass Thriller Senate Potus

Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655788)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:47 PM
Author: Walnut Thirsty Stain Set

Sotomayor is like some kind of sick joke, derailing SCOTUS

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655805)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:55 PM
Author: Sapphire sound barrier

Thomas, J., laying down the law:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heQjKdHu1P4&t=41m45s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655903)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 10:40 AM
Author: Green gunner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35660545)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:00 PM
Author: dashing clown

Pure pwnage by Kennedy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#35655929)



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Date: October 7th, 2021 2:35 PM
Author: transparent kitty cat parlor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924914&forum_id=2#43237109)