Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Parties, State Elections, and the Judiciary

Tenatative list for next week:  you may trade times, but tell me.

Monday
  • Daphne Achilles
  • Cary Dornier
  • Sascha Douglass
  • Kirby Kimball
  • William Parker
  • Nick Teresi
  • Alec Vercruysse
  • Luke Williams
  • Melinda Ximen
Wednesday
  • Camille Doherty
  • Nichole Jonassen
  • Michaela Jones
  • Madison Lewis
  • Ria Passi
  • Zachary Torrey
  • Rachel Wander
  • Nathan Worley
  • Andy Xu


GOVERNORS AND EXEC OFFICIALS
Red states with Democratic governors:
  • Kansas (Laura Kelly)
  • Kentucky (Andy Beshear)
  • Louisiana (John Bel Edwards)
Blue states with Republican governors:
  • Maryland (Larry Hogan)
  • Massachusetts (Charlie Baker)
  • Vermont (Phil Scott)
SCOTUS and Party Politics

Flashback to our February 6 class:


Nixon 1968 (at about 19:30)


SCOTUS politics was pretty partisan in the 19th century.  Lincoln's 1858 "House Divided" speech included ... conspiracy theory

We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different potions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen,- Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance-and we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortieses exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few-not omitting even scaffolding-or, if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared to yet bring such piece in-in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first lick was struck.


Clarence Thomas


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