Today in Supreme Court History: August 7, 2010

8/7/2010: Justice Elena Kagan takes oath.

Justice Elena Kagan

 

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[Dan Schiavetta]

Ex parte Clarke, 128 U.S. 395 (decided August 7, 1888): Harlan denies habeas to a steamship operator who had been convicted of selling alcohol in violation of a recently-enacted Pennsylvania statute; rejects argument that the statute is unconstitutional; as an aside he also believes that Congress wouldn't have the power to override it (maybe this is why a Constitutional amendment ended up being necessary?)

[DaivdBehar]

Kagan was a law prof and Dean of Harvard Law School. She is totally lawyer hierarchy and on the arrest list. Everything she says is to destroy our nation. Pure evil behind little smart girl charm.

[SRG]

Area man upset to find that Supreme Court justices typically have to be lawyers.

[David Welker]

Supreme Court justices do not have to be lawyers. Although all of them have been for a long time.

[Noscitur a sociis]

Who are some of the Supreme Court justices who were not lawyers?

[Syd Henderson]

I haven't found any that didn't at least study law, though many didn't have judicial experience. Kagen's the only current one. Rehnquist and Powell before her.

[wreckinball]

One of our 3 communist justices.

[DaivdBehar]

Kagan is a servant of the interests of the tech billionaires, kowtowing to the Chinese Commie Party, our mortal enemy. All should be rounded up as traitors.

[DaivdBehar]

Kagan, as Eugene does, indoctrinated intelligent, ethical young people into supernatural doctrines. She inducted them into a criminal cult enterprise, and brooked no substantive dissent. She is part of the Mafia that has totally infiltrated, and now controls our empire grade government. The aim is to plunder and to destroy the nation from within.

[DaivdBehar]

This pro-criminal piece of filth has surged violent crime to attack our nation from within.

https://www.westernjournal.com/assaults-seattle-firefighters-skyrocket-high-may-impact-critical-services/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune&ats_es=731571b3134386edfd354e86a103b590

[Sarcastr0]

Yeah devalue that word more for your partisan jollies. what could go wrong?

[DaivdBehar]

Sari. You will love Inauguration Day, 2025.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Don't feed the trolls!
(I know it's hard; most of the comments at VC are now from the garbage Reason crowd.)

[DaivdBehar]

Cappie. I will add you to my prayers, that you do not get jacked by a Democrat. Be careful going out there, bruh.

[Mr. Bumble]

Gee, sorry we all can't be one of the "swells".
Plenty of "garbage" from all sides.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

" Plenty of "garbage" from all sides. "

Comments, sure.

Original posts? Just one side is responsible for all of it.

[Mr. Bumble]

Would you care to expand and clarify?

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

The posts by Conspirators these days (the Blackman-Volokh era) consist almost entirely of polemical partisanship, and all of from the conservative perspective.

[DaivdBehar]

Great legal analysis, bruh. Where did you go to law school? I want to learn what you do here.

[Sarcastr0]

Yes, it’s elitist to be contrarian in reason. Not like you salt of the earth GOP lockstep posters calling everyone commies and turning every post to raging at the libs.

[David Welker]

I took a class in law school co-taught by Elena Kagan.

She is alright. One thing I noticed is that she was especially nice to Federalist Society types. She even went the Federalist Society's student symposium in 2005 and said really nice things about the Federalist Society.

This attitude was probably helpful when she was nominated to replace Stevens in 2010, but I have no reason to doubt that it was also sincere.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

Nowadays it's newsworthy if anyone has friendly relationships across political lines.

I know Jefferson is out of favor nowadays, but he said something sensible in 1801:

"And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance, as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions."

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-33-02-0116-0004

[Dan Schiavetta]

Cf.
The ultimate reconciliation of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, so movingly depicted in the miniseries “John Adams”.

(leaves the room to avoid the misogynist, juvenile, racist carpings of the usual commenters, unmoderated by the VC despite its guidelines)

[The Margrave of Azilia]

The UN initially wanted to define genocide to include politically-motivated mass killings, but guess who objected? The Soviets, for some unknown reason.

It seems that merely killing Kulaks isn't genocidal. Neither, for that matter, were the Cambodian horrors.

That's what you could get when your enemies are all insects, parasites, inferiors to be stomped and have things rammed down their throats.

[Dan Schiavetta]

You made a dignified, adult comment and then pissed all over it.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

And there you go...glad you came back into the room to say this...that's why we can't have nice things, you illustrate the very phenomenon I describe.

There's a slippery slope with the top being Édouard Drumont or Artie with their rhetoric, and the bottom being the practical implementation of their dehumanizing principles.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Not a serious response.

You mentioned people being friendly with political enemies. If you can cite a non juvenile comment by someone I usually disagree with, my ears are open.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

It's juveniles all the way down. I wasn't referring to friendly relations on Volokh.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Not a serious response. You are now blocked.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

Back at you.

[Mr. Bumble]

Fingers in ears; so adult both of you.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

A comment section filled with threats and sometimes even genocidal sentiments. The slope may be long but it's slippery. I wasn't even referring to Cap'n Crunch, but apparently he thought I was.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

I attend Federalist Society events regularly (although they seem to have been scheduled much less frequently during the most recent few years). Many of the presentations are worthwhile and enjoyable.

The holiday parties, however . . .

[DaivdBehar]

Great question, bruh. You are so well spoken, Rhoid.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Most of the facts are in the syllabus but it looks like the new law didn’t allow steamboats to obtain liquor licenses. Violation resulted in a fine and/or prison. Clark claimed that to be profitable steamboats had to have a bar onboard (I can well imagine that) so perhaps there was a due process argument. As for Harlan’s comment about Congress, the steamboat plied the Monongahela River so it was strictly intrastate commerce.

[DaivdBehar]

Great comment, bruh.

[grb]

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Somebody REALLY needs to get out of his mommy's basement.....

[DaivdBehar]

Great comment, bruh.

[GKHoffman]

You must have concluded where Temujin, a/k/a Chinggis Khaghan, fits on the left-to-right political spectrum. Tell us where that is, and how you reasoned it out.

[DaivdBehar]

Ghengis Khan was a dirty Chinese Commie.

[DaivdBehar]

His empire wilted after his death. Ghengis Khan supports the doctrine of First Leader, First Kill. That should become our military doctrine. End the billions wasted on the killing of millions of working people who just want to go home. Do not kill thousands of Chinese soldiers at sea, invading Taiwan. Drone Xi, his family, and his oligarchs, their families. Go Biblical on them, down to the last kitten in their household.

Why is this simple doctrine not the law of the land? The vile, toxic, scumbag lawyer profession are immunizing heads of state. You have to arrest our lawyers to get it done. Arrest them, try them an hour. Shoot them in the court basement. To deter.

[DaivdBehar]

Sarrie Baby. Is "traitor" not applicable to the vile, toxic scumbag lawyers blocking the eradication of the leadership of our enemies?

[DaivdBehar]

Eugene is a good research assistant. He should post the modern rules of engagement. Kill the enemy, get prosecuted by the scumbag Commissars of PC hobbling our warriors. Our military are now pussies.

[DaivdBehar]

Sarrie baby. The scumbag lawyers pussifying our waroors, not traitors to you? Traitor means, helping the enemy.

[DaivdBehar]

Great retort, Rhoid. You are so well spoken, so clean.

[GKHoffman]

? Your post makes no sense.

[DaivdBehar]

I had no idea either. I thought it was lawyer talk or something.

[DaivdBehar]

Rhoid have you read the recent rules of engagement? Totally pussified. Kill the enemy, get prosecuted, Honey.

We could be conquered were it not for some good ol' boys with guns. The brothers would welcome the Chinese here, no doubt.

[DaivdBehar]

Great come back, bruh. Still do not understand what you meant. Can you explain it more, Honey?

[Mr. Bumble]

Praise Jesus a comment from you that I can agree with!

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

With Prof. Kerr exiled to Saneville, Profs. Adler and Somin constitute the "almost." But they also do not keep up with Prof.s Volokh and Blackman when it comes to volume -- those two disaffected clingers set the tone and doom the enterprise.

[Ed Grinberg]

Adler and Somin are partisan polemicists? Uh-uh.

Adler doesn't post much and, to be honest, I don't remember much about the content of his (infrequent) posts.
Somin is the epitome of a "partisan polemicist." (Which party? I'd say: far-our "progressives.")

[Gandydancer]

And yet here you are, repeating your garbage ad nauseum.