Is the person being noble?
Jim Maule
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Perhaps you're right; perhaps "integrity" isn't the right word. In some
instances, a person might be acting out of "integrity" precisely by
opposing
nominees who are "wrong" on issues of importance.
Still, wha
Two quick points: (1) Are there examples of conservative law professors
(in large numbers) supporting the appointments of likeable, honest,
accomplished scholars with decidedly non-conservative substantive views on
critical issues? and (2) Depending on how seriously one takes the contention
"Integrity" may be an acceptable word so long as it is not excluding by
using it the people noted in your second sentence below. That was the
substance of my objection -- that acting to support someone who one
disagrees with on many things is not the only act of integrity in such
situations, t
Perhaps you're right; perhaps "integrity" isn't the right word. In some
instances, a person might be acting out of "integrity" precisely by opposing
nominees who are "wrong" on issues of importance.
Still, what would the right word be in this situation? Compared to all the
instances of perfectl
Stuart BUCK wrote:
Let me put it this way, since my first attempt was apparently unclear:
Liberals might be warranted in opposing McConnell, just as McConnell
might have been warranted in opposing Kagan and other Clinton
nominees. Anyone would prefer that judicial nominees agree with his
or her
I suspect that most professors on this list set aside their personal beliefs almost daily when teaching -- that we all argue sides we don't believe in so as to make our students think harder, that we strive to present the law from multiple viewpoints and as fairly as we can. And that we evaluate j
Thanks for the clarification, but I still have a problem with your definition of "integrity."
On Wednesday, February 23, 2005, at 05:29 PM, Stuart BUCK wrote:
Let me put it this way, since my first attempt was apparently unclear:
Liberals might be warranted in opposing McConnell, just as McConn
Consider two
possibilities.
First, a group of liberal and
conservative legal elites acts together, either informally or formally, to
support high quality justices. Liberals endorse the McConnells of the
world, conservatives the Kathleen Sullivans of the universe.
Second, members of on
Let me put it this way, since my first attempt was apparently unclear:
Liberals might be warranted in opposing McConnell, just as McConnell might
have been warranted in opposing Kagan and other Clinton nominees. Anyone
would prefer that judicial nominees agree with his or her own positions on a
Hmmm. "Intellectual integrity?" Please explain how anything done as described in your post constitutes "intellectual integrity." If I have a standard of the characteristics I think a judge should have, is it not "intellectual integrity" to judge all candidates by those standards, whatever they m
When Michael was nominated to the Tenth Circuit, Elena Kagan wrote a letter
to Sen. Leahy in support. In that letter, she said:
"As you may recall, I was once myself a nominee to the appellate bench. At
that time, Michael exerted himself mightily to persuade then-Chairman Hatch
to grant me a h
Folks: The list software is configured to block all posts with
a length of more than 40 Kbytes. I think this is a good system; most
posts that are longer either (1) have attachments, which sometimes screw
up the software, and which many people find clutter their mailboxes, or
(2) have a b
New York’s Court of Appeals held yesterday in
Wende C. v. United
Methodist Church
that it would not recognizer a claim for breach of fiduciary duty in a case in which
a minister had an affair with a married woman he was counseling. It said that
the claim of breach of fidu
My first post: I'm not an academic, just a citizen very
interested in the subject of law and religion. I'm finding the discussion
here very interesting, and when I saw this Yahoo news story, it looked like
something that would be of interest here. It's from the Christian Science
Monitor, t
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