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Some good new Sotomayor transcript gems from yesterday

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Tantric maniacal church building psychic
  03/21/18
I'm fairly sophisticated I'm fairly sophisticated I'm fair...
mentally impaired azure pistol meetinghouse
  03/21/18
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Razzle-dazzle cheese-eating multi-billionaire parlor
  03/21/18
Read that as "It's fairly sophisticated" the first...
electric orchid cruise ship
  03/21/18
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charcoal mediation
  03/21/18
Was this part of the record or, as Kennedy implied, did she ...
Lascivious Internal Respiration School Cafeteria
  03/21/18
did her own research as far as I can tell
Tantric maniacal church building psychic
  03/21/18
Ends justify the means with libs They will never criticiz...
tan boyish becky foreskin
  03/21/18
Not to defend TWL, but appellate judges do this kind of shit...
smoky shitlib sex offender
  03/21/18
But Posner is a POS judge.
curious demanding circlehead rehab
  03/21/18
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Exciting Ticket Booth Preventive Strike
  03/21/18
While it is true judges frequently break the rules, it doesn...
Shaky striped hyena casino
  03/21/18
Whether it breaks the rules depends on the circumstances tho...
smoky shitlib sex offender
  03/21/18
I wasn't giving a view on the propriety of Sotomayor's resea...
Shaky striped hyena casino
  03/21/18
There is no guarantee that the ad she looked at is the ad at...
curious demanding circlehead rehab
  03/21/18
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Diverse Den Fat Ankles
  10/07/21
Both are wrong.
effete appetizing set
  03/21/18
there was a case about how long it took union members to put...
Buff step-uncle's house
  03/22/18
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Olive filthpig
  03/22/18
#MeTwink
Buff step-uncle's house
  03/22/18
fucking garbage. He also reversed a case on the medical stan...
cream supple laser beams
  03/22/18
almost certainly the news stories about Posner and his publi...
Buff step-uncle's house
  03/22/18
lol
soggy property
  03/22/18
Going outside the record is some bullshit.
curious demanding circlehead rehab
  03/21/18
Yeah. This includes the frequent refs you see to social scie...
Shaky striped hyena casino
  03/21/18
I don't mind when trial judges bring factual shit up sua spo...
curious demanding circlehead rehab
  03/21/18
Thugs in black robes, etc.
effete appetizing set
  03/21/18
http://www.abajournal.com/images/main_images/FO_478_FINAL_12...
Buff step-uncle's house
  03/22/18
Roberts barely concealing his contempt for the Wise Latina
Motley frozen death wish friendly grandma
  03/21/18
If a freaking CJOTUSSC is willing to talk like that on the r...
sadistic old irish cottage
  03/22/18
oh what an exemplary. such anathema.
scarlet rough-skinned area associate
  03/21/18
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impertinent violent hall
  03/21/18
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Olive filthpig
  03/21/18
Lol @ the man who premised his Citizens United opinion on an...
Exhilarant Dysfunction Messiness
  03/21/18
Those are two unrelated things, and they had reargument on t...
curious demanding circlehead rehab
  03/21/18
More egregious to raise an unbriefed issue than to refer to ...
Exhilarant Dysfunction Messiness
  03/21/18
Kennedy is absolutely TTT, but if there is an actual disposi...
curious demanding circlehead rehab
  03/21/18
Usually SCOTUS says "we avoid broad constitutional ruli...
Exhilarant Dysfunction Messiness
  03/21/18
You can't allow retarded attorneys and technical waiver rule...
effete appetizing set
  03/21/18
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Buff step-uncle's house
  03/22/18
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Trip Twinkling Station Tattoo
  03/21/18
I don't understand. None of this is about working at Nordstr...
Peach menage liquid oxygen
  03/21/18
PRORE TERR: calling it Nordstrom's instead of the correct No...
mentally impaired azure pistol meetinghouse
  03/21/18
Lmao
charcoal mediation
  03/21/18
Sotomayor is like some kind of sick joke, derailing SCOTUS ...
Underhanded shrine hominid
  03/21/18
Thomas, J., laying down the law: https://www.youtube.com/...
Exciting Ticket Booth Preventive Strike
  03/21/18
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electric orchid cruise ship
  03/22/18
Pure pwnage by Kennedy.
effete appetizing set
  03/21/18
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concupiscible canary pisswyrm
  10/07/21


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Date: March 21st, 2018 5:43 PM
Author: Tantric maniacal church building psychic



(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: mentally impaired azure pistol meetinghouse

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: Razzle-dazzle cheese-eating multi-billionaire parlor



(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: electric orchid cruise ship

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: charcoal mediation



(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: Lascivious Internal Respiration School Cafeteria

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: Tantric maniacal church building psychic

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: tan boyish becky foreskin

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: smoky shitlib sex offender

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: curious demanding circlehead rehab

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: Exciting Ticket Booth Preventive Strike



(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: Shaky striped hyena casino

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: smoky shitlib sex offender

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: Shaky striped hyena casino

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: curious demanding circlehead rehab

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: Diverse Den Fat Ankles



(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: effete appetizing set

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: Buff step-uncle's house

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: Olive filthpig



(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: Buff step-uncle's house

#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: cream supple laser beams

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: Buff step-uncle's house

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: soggy property

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: curious demanding circlehead rehab

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: Shaky striped hyena casino

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: curious demanding circlehead rehab

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: effete appetizing set

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: Buff step-uncle's house

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: Motley frozen death wish friendly grandma

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: sadistic old irish cottage

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: scarlet rough-skinned area associate

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: impertinent violent hall



(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: Olive filthpig



(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: Exhilarant Dysfunction Messiness

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: curious demanding circlehead rehab

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: Exhilarant Dysfunction Messiness

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: curious demanding circlehead rehab

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: Exhilarant Dysfunction Messiness

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: effete appetizing set

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: Buff step-uncle's house



(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: Trip Twinkling Station Tattoo



(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: Peach menage liquid oxygen

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: mentally impaired azure pistol meetinghouse

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: charcoal mediation

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: Underhanded shrine hominid

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: Exciting Ticket Booth Preventive Strike

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: electric orchid cruise ship



(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: effete appetizing set

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: concupiscible canary pisswyrm



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