If it lacks credibility, it just does. The power of the court is that people respect it. How much partisan abuse can an institution stand? I'm just hoping for some checks and balances and long live RBG.
So now that your boy's in office, suddenly the country you previously accused of being run by a corrupted cabal has instead become a country worth protecting, and whose institutions deserve the peoples' faith and support?
There is no requirement that a SCOTUS justice be a member of the bar or licensed to practice law. Such a move, though highly symbolic, would have about as much practical value as tits on bulls.
Maybe, but probably not. Given that there have been identical twins where one ended up straight and one ended up gay, there's plenty of evidence that preferences depend on something other than genetics. Again, I am laughing at the idea of you telling a lesbian woman she is really straight because of your "quantifiable reality." It would be fun to watch.
? You posted a finding of correlations. They have wide variance and large error bars, but they are still robust and interesting correlations. Obviously if some mechanism lies behind them, that mechanism would be a significant discovery, but so far no such mechanism has been described. We look forward to further research and new discoveries, all motivated and framed by evolutionary theory of course. One very interesting implication of this research - as the authors note- is that because these specific genes common to voles and people apparently influence mating behavior in voles somehow, they might also influence mating behavior in humans in some unknown way (maybe even the same way, it's possible). We look forward to further research into that interesting possibility as well.
To elaborate: Kavanaugh himself has never represented any client in any court as a lawyer, or any nonpartisan nonpolitical organization as legal counsel. W appointed him to the Federal bench directly from his career of employment as a partisan Republican legal adviser to partisan Republican political operations. - - - In general: That kind of judicial appointment (or election!) is more common in the US than is commonly realized, especially in recent years by Republican electorates and Republican governing authorities: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/when-your-judge-isnt-a-lawyer/515568/ As noted above, people without law degrees have in the past been seated on the Supreme Court. http://www.answers.com/Q/Which_Supreme_Court_justices_did_not_have_a_law_degree
It shouldn't be funny, but sadly, it is. I had been trying to figure out who he reminded me of. As in, who else spouts this level of crazy bullshit: And then it came to me.
What on earth is the relevance of the genetics or behavioural underpinnings of sexual orientation to a thread about the Kavanaugh confirmation? It's like somebody is just fixated on sexual imagery or something. Otherkin? Seriously? WTF? Please get a grip and keep your sexual obsessions out of threads about senate confirmation hearings.
No two ways about it...the above is a true statement. That said, it's a difference with little to no distinction, for being a lawyer without having a law degree merely indicates one read for the bar (learned the law via an apprenticeship process) instead of going to law school.
