Leah Litman

how this debating society, right, and how this institution that just provides forum and networking can also be engaged in this system of selecting nominees, figuring out who's going to do the things they want to do, then you are kind of getting the, you know, wool pulled over your eyes. And so I agree it can do both.

It just so happens that doing both things operates to the benefit of the inner circle part.

It just so happens that doing both things operates to the benefit of the inner circle part.

It just so happens that doing both things operates to the benefit of the inner circle part.

Right. Totally, totally fair point.

Right. Totally, totally fair point.

Right. Totally, totally fair point.

Yeah, Democrats haven't really picked up on that just yet.

Yeah, Democrats haven't really picked up on that just yet.

Yeah, Democrats haven't really picked up on that just yet.

This is one of those things where I feel like I'm not on the inner circle. I'm not in the inner network, so I don't have real insight into this because I'm screaming at them all the time to get with the program, and yet they're not listening. This inner circle operates very differently.

This is one of those things where I feel like I'm not on the inner circle. I'm not in the inner network, so I don't have real insight into this because I'm screaming at them all the time to get with the program, and yet they're not listening. This inner circle operates very differently.

This is one of those things where I feel like I'm not on the inner circle. I'm not in the inner network, so I don't have real insight into this because I'm screaming at them all the time to get with the program, and yet they're not listening. This inner circle operates very differently.

Right. Right. create, you know, an alternative media ecosystem so that they would receive their claps, you know, for doing the things that the conservative legal movement wanted them to do. And so that's also, you know, part of the story of the post-suder world.

Right. Right. create, you know, an alternative media ecosystem so that they would receive their claps, you know, for doing the things that the conservative legal movement wanted them to do. And so that's also, you know, part of the story of the post-suder world.

Right. Right. create, you know, an alternative media ecosystem so that they would receive their claps, you know, for doing the things that the conservative legal movement wanted them to do. And so that's also, you know, part of the story of the post-suder world.

Exactly. But yes, this is part of the tragedy of David Souter, who is an independent jurist who did really care about the facts. And in my view, is someone who I would describe as a real small C conservative judge, right? Like very incrementalist, didn't want to do real shockwaves through the law. And soon after he is appointed to the court, he decides not to overrule Roe versus Wade. Right.

Exactly. But yes, this is part of the tragedy of David Souter, who is an independent jurist who did really care about the facts. And in my view, is someone who I would describe as a real small C conservative judge, right? Like very incrementalist, didn't want to do real shockwaves through the law. And soon after he is appointed to the court, he decides not to overrule Roe versus Wade. Right.

Exactly. But yes, this is part of the tragedy of David Souter, who is an independent jurist who did really care about the facts. And in my view, is someone who I would describe as a real small C conservative judge, right? Like very incrementalist, didn't want to do real shockwaves through the law. And soon after he is appointed to the court, he decides not to overrule Roe versus Wade. Right.

And that is what sets off these calls of no more suitors. And that spawned the kind of increase in the federal society's focus on identifying nominees who could be trusted, as well as creating this social incentive structure and professional incentive structure for them to do the, quote, right thing. I don't know why the call ended up being no more suitors rather than