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Post by newfieguy74 on Oct 29, 2020 8:04:35 GMT -5
Without commenting either way on the new Justice I agree completely that it is a good thing to have nominees from other law schools/regions. There are many brilliant candidates out there.
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Post by hcpride on Oct 29, 2020 9:28:14 GMT -5
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Post by sader1970 on Oct 29, 2020 9:31:20 GMT -5
For those looking for diversity, the next topic may be those who take issue with 2/3rds of the Court being Catholic.
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Post by newfieguy74 on Oct 29, 2020 9:55:10 GMT -5
Oh, I've definitely heard comments (not positive) from acquaintances about six observant Catholics being on SCOTUS.
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 29, 2020 10:10:07 GMT -5
Once they say "observant" Catholics, you kind of know their position. I find gthsat term as loaded as "recovering" Catholics.
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Post by hchoops on Oct 29, 2020 10:17:31 GMT -5
I believe that Justice Thomas became a Protestant after his second marriage.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 29, 2020 10:23:49 GMT -5
Perhaps because of my obvious interest in the subject, I've always considered Justice Thomas to be a "Holy Cross guy" not a Yalie. In like fashion, Justice Barrett is from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She went to trade school at Notre Dame. She lives in the Midwest now but I have to think there is still more New Orleans in her than Midwest. I went to trade school at Northeastern University but I've never once considered myself anything other than a HC guy. I have lived in the Midwest for many years but at heart I'm still a New Englander. I don't think Rhodes was mentioned very often if at all in her hearings and seldom in the media--maybe it's different with Law and Medicine than with other professions or jobs.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 29, 2020 10:24:44 GMT -5
I believe that Justice Thomas became a Protestant after his second marriage. I think that is correct but I believed he eventually returned to Catholicism |
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Post by hchoops on Oct 29, 2020 10:30:24 GMT -5
I believe that Justice Thomas became a Protestant after his second marriage. I think that is correct but I believed he eventually returned to Catholicism That is correct |
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Oct 29, 2020 10:31:37 GMT -5
Oh, I've definitely heard comments (not positive) from acquaintances about six observant Catholics being on SCOTUS. Interesting, I didn't even know this. Even more intriguing considering that us Catholics only represent 1/45 presidents in our country's history. |
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Post by hchoops on Oct 29, 2020 10:38:39 GMT -5
Oh, I've definitely heard comments (not positive) from acquaintances about six observant Catholics being on SCOTUS. Interesting, I didn't even know this. Even more intriguing considering that us Catholics only represent 1/45 presidents in our country's history. With the possibility of a change shortly |
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Post by hcpride on Oct 29, 2020 10:50:41 GMT -5
Perhaps because of my obvious interest in the subject, I've always considered Justice Thomas to be a "Holy Cross guy" not a Yalie. In like fashion, Justice Barrett is from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She went to trade school at Notre Dame. She lives in the Midwest now but I have to think there is still more New Orleans in her than Midwest. I went to trade school at Northeastern University but I've never once considered myself anything other than a HC guy. I have lived in the Midwest for many years but at heart I'm still a New Englander. I don't think Rhodes was mentioned very often if at all in her hearings and seldom in the media--maybe it's different with Law and Medicine than with other professions or jobs. One has to remember that Justice Barrett not only attended Law School for 3 years at Notre Dame (graduating first in her class), but she also was an extraordinarily popular teacher at Notre Dame’s Law School for an additional 15 years. That might explain the close association with ND. (As opposed to her undergraduate school). |
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Post by Crucis#1 on Oct 29, 2020 11:09:08 GMT -5
I’m sure most of us here are pleased that there finally is a justice who did not attend Harvard or Yale - and from the Midwest to boot - some balance on those fronts is a good thing, IMO Sandra Day O’Connor did not attend either Harvard or Yale, and was from the west. Undergrad and Law at Stanford. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor |
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Post by hcpride on Oct 29, 2020 11:13:22 GMT -5
/\ She’s not on the Supreme Court...there certainly have been justices in the past who didn’t attend H/Y — inc. 3 from University of Michigan Law School BTW...ACB is the only current non-H/Y attendee.
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Post by Tom on Oct 29, 2020 11:15:34 GMT -5
Oh, I've definitely heard comments (not positive) from acquaintances about six observant Catholics being on SCOTUS. They're probably still angry about President Kennedy taking orders from the Vatican |
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Post by Crucis#1 on Oct 29, 2020 11:20:38 GMT -5
/\ She’s not on the Supreme Court...there certainly have been justices in the past who didn’t attend H/Y...ACB is the only current non-H/Y attendee. I fully understand there have been non HY justices on the court, for example William O Douglas and John Paul Stevens. The previous comment seemed to imply that there has been a strict HY succession to the Supreme Court throughout its history. I pointed out Justice O’Connor as she was the most recent Justice not part of the HY alumni network. I was taking the statement literally regarding the history of the court. |
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Post by HC13 on Oct 29, 2020 11:37:50 GMT -5
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Post by alum on Oct 29, 2020 14:25:16 GMT -5
I have a bigger problem with the fact that most of the justices (and increasingly even Courts of Appeals judges) have spent little to no time in the private practice of law.
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 29, 2020 15:06:01 GMT -5
Let's remember the "air force" started as the Army Air Corps and the Army is mentioned in there somewhere. The cage of name may be unconstitutional, but the army pre-dates the constitution and is not IIRC.
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 29, 2020 16:03:04 GMT -5
ARMY is in there (and every part of that army is included and need not be mentioned).
I agree that privacy is not mentioned directly anywhere in there.
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Post by ndgradbuthcfan on Oct 29, 2020 16:06:39 GMT -5
I’m sure most of us here are pleased that there finally is a justice who did not attend Harvard or Yale - and from the Midwest to boot - some balance on those fronts is a good thing, IMO She's from Louisiana. Additionally, when I was at ND, we considered Indiana to be the Northernmost Southern state. |
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Post by longsuffering on Oct 29, 2020 16:24:17 GMT -5
I believe that Justice Thomas became a Protestant after his second marriage. I think that is correct but I believed he eventually returned to Catholicism Father Brooks gave him a call. |
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Post by longsuffering on Oct 29, 2020 16:27:27 GMT -5
Once they say "observant" Catholics, you kind of know their position. I find gthsat term as loaded as "recovering" Catholics. And then there is the "fallen" Catholic. |
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Post by purplenurple on Oct 30, 2020 12:19:39 GMT -5
Perhaps because of my obvious interest in the subject, I've always considered Justice Thomas to be a "Holy Cross guy" not a Yalie. In like fashion, Justice Barrett is from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She went to trade school at Notre Dame. She lives in the Midwest now but I have to think there is still more New Orleans in her than Midwest. I went to trade school at Northeastern University but I've never once considered myself anything other than a HC guy. I have lived in the Midwest for many years but at heart I'm still a New Englander. I don't think Rhodes was mentioned very often if at all in her hearings and seldom in the media--maybe it's different with Law and Medicine than with other professions or jobs. Rhodes was only mentioned I saw when the Press Secretary mistakenly referred to Justice Barrett as a "Rhodes Scholar". But then again she went to Harvard Law, so her world view might be myopic. |
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Post by longsuffering on Oct 31, 2020 9:51:16 GMT -5
The press secretary is legally blonde.🙂
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