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Some good new Sotomayor transcript gems from yesterday

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Lime kink-friendly heaven doctorate
  03/21/18
I'm fairly sophisticated I'm fairly sophisticated I'm fair...
Cracking chestnut set dog poop
  03/21/18
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vigorous office
  03/21/18
Read that as "It's fairly sophisticated" the first...
blue multi-billionaire weed whacker
  03/21/18
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insanely creepy rose legend stock car
  03/21/18
Was this part of the record or, as Kennedy implied, did she ...
Diverse codepig internal respiration
  03/21/18
did her own research as far as I can tell
Lime kink-friendly heaven doctorate
  03/21/18
Ends justify the means with libs They will never criticiz...
Overrated rigor pervert
  03/21/18
Not to defend TWL, but appellate judges do this kind of shit...
razzmatazz confused black woman
  03/21/18
But Posner is a POS judge.
flirting galvanic library laser beams
  03/21/18
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Shimmering Alpha
  03/21/18
While it is true judges frequently break the rules, it doesn...
Smoky histrionic hall
  03/21/18
Whether it breaks the rules depends on the circumstances tho...
razzmatazz confused black woman
  03/21/18
I wasn't giving a view on the propriety of Sotomayor's resea...
Smoky histrionic hall
  03/21/18
There is no guarantee that the ad she looked at is the ad at...
flirting galvanic library laser beams
  03/21/18
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doobsian school cafeteria
  10/07/21
Both are wrong.
spectacular church new version
  03/21/18
there was a case about how long it took union members to put...
flesh exhilarant address
  03/22/18
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Dark Low-t Piazza Preventive Strike
  03/22/18
#MeTwink
flesh exhilarant address
  03/22/18
fucking garbage. He also reversed a case on the medical stan...
Autistic Nibblets
  03/22/18
almost certainly the news stories about Posner and his publi...
flesh exhilarant address
  03/22/18
lol
Soul-stirring know-it-all plaza
  03/22/18
Going outside the record is some bullshit.
flirting galvanic library laser beams
  03/21/18
Yeah. This includes the frequent refs you see to social scie...
Smoky histrionic hall
  03/21/18
I don't mind when trial judges bring factual shit up sua spo...
flirting galvanic library laser beams
  03/21/18
Thugs in black robes, etc.
spectacular church new version
  03/21/18
http://www.abajournal.com/images/main_images/FO_478_FINAL_12...
flesh exhilarant address
  03/22/18
Roberts barely concealing his contempt for the Wise Latina
infuriating internet-worthy trailer park
  03/21/18
If a freaking CJOTUSSC is willing to talk like that on the r...
Odious skinny woman property
  03/22/18
oh what an exemplary. such anathema.
razzle rebellious site
  03/21/18
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Razzle-dazzle disgusting point
  03/21/18
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Dark Low-t Piazza Preventive Strike
  03/21/18
Lol @ the man who premised his Citizens United opinion on an...
Sinister Zombie-like Resort Clown
  03/21/18
Those are two unrelated things, and they had reargument on t...
flirting galvanic library laser beams
  03/21/18
More egregious to raise an unbriefed issue than to refer to ...
Sinister Zombie-like Resort Clown
  03/21/18
Kennedy is absolutely TTT, but if there is an actual disposi...
flirting galvanic library laser beams
  03/21/18
Usually SCOTUS says "we avoid broad constitutional ruli...
Sinister Zombie-like Resort Clown
  03/21/18
You can't allow retarded attorneys and technical waiver rule...
spectacular church new version
  03/21/18
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flesh exhilarant address
  03/22/18
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buck-toothed antidepressant drug
  03/21/18
I don't understand. None of this is about working at Nordstr...
Yellow fighting idiot
  03/21/18
PRORE TERR: calling it Nordstrom's instead of the correct No...
Cracking chestnut set dog poop
  03/21/18
Lmao
insanely creepy rose legend stock car
  03/21/18
Sotomayor is like some kind of sick joke, derailing SCOTUS ...
gold jet-lagged brunch
  03/21/18
Thomas, J., laying down the law: https://www.youtube.com/...
Shimmering Alpha
  03/21/18
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blue multi-billionaire weed whacker
  03/22/18
Pure pwnage by Kennedy.
spectacular church new version
  03/21/18
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pale native coffee pot
  10/07/21


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Date: March 21st, 2018 5:43 PM
Author: Lime kink-friendly heaven doctorate



(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: Cracking chestnut set dog poop

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: vigorous office



(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: blue multi-billionaire weed whacker

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: insanely creepy rose legend stock car



(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: Diverse codepig internal respiration

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: Lime kink-friendly heaven doctorate

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: Overrated rigor pervert

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: razzmatazz confused black woman

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: flirting galvanic library laser beams

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: Shimmering Alpha



(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: Smoky histrionic hall

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: razzmatazz confused black woman

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: Smoky histrionic hall

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: flirting galvanic library laser beams

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: doobsian school cafeteria



(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: spectacular church new version

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: flesh exhilarant address

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: Dark Low-t Piazza Preventive Strike



(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: flesh exhilarant address

#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: Autistic Nibblets

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: flesh exhilarant address

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: Soul-stirring know-it-all plaza

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: flirting galvanic library laser beams

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: Smoky histrionic hall

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: flirting galvanic library laser beams

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: spectacular church new version

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: flesh exhilarant address

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: infuriating internet-worthy trailer park

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: Odious skinny woman property

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: razzle rebellious site

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: Razzle-dazzle disgusting point



(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: Dark Low-t Piazza Preventive Strike



(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: Sinister Zombie-like Resort Clown

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: flirting galvanic library laser beams

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: Sinister Zombie-like Resort Clown

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: flirting galvanic library laser beams

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: Sinister Zombie-like Resort Clown

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: spectacular church new version

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: flesh exhilarant address



(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: buck-toothed antidepressant drug



(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: Yellow fighting idiot

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: Cracking chestnut set dog poop

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: insanely creepy rose legend stock car

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: gold jet-lagged brunch

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: Shimmering Alpha

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: blue multi-billionaire weed whacker



(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: spectacular church new version

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: pale native coffee pot



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