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Staatssicherheit 12 points ago +12 / -0

44 years old. Evidence of common sense when he was in college and not under a political microscope. 2018 Trump Judge to the 9th Circuit.

12-10 party line vote in committee. 52-45 party line vote in the Senate.

Summa cum laude from Cornell University in 1997, Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2000.

I like him. He seems like a good candidate to replace RBG. Anybody have any evidence on any policy weaknesses on this guy?

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minttea2 13 points ago +13 / -0

Only strengths.

Opposition report on him. Near perfection. Probably reads .win

https://www.afj.org/document/kenneth-lee-background-report/

Just a small taste:

Lee’s bias is further evidenced by his extreme partisanship in other contexts. Lee, who once wrote that “Watergate had a tinge of political witch hunt,” has repeatedly been vicious in his attacks on Democrats. For example, in writing about a congressional investigation into the 1996 House election of Loretta Sanchez, he suggested that “Democrats, cynically but shrewdly play[] the race card.” He said Democrats “patronizingly offer[] race-based programs.” He also wrote that “liberal Democrats” “lure Asian-Americans into the ‘victimization culture,’ in which only benevolent white liberals in the government can come to the rescue of inexorably oppressed minorities.”

His critiques of the “Left” have not been limited to the government. He has characterized much of the “Left” as “intellectually fraudulent and morally bankrupt.” He once sarcastically asked, “[A]fter all, why would any sane person want to be a leftist?” He said that professors “proselytize their left-wing gospel” and criticized what he perceived as “epidemic lying in the ivory tower” and liberalism at universities. He wrote that “[f]rom Afrocentric claims of Cleopatra’s being black to phony feminist statistics on rape, anorexia, and discriminatory treatment of girls, academia has in recent years been beset by revelations of fraudulent facts and spurious studies.”

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“[R]acial separatism on campus is rife with ironies. . .The same universities that enact affirmative action programs to foster diversity and mutual understanding also encourage self-segregation along ethnic lines. Their motivations arise partly in response to intimidation, and partly from well-intentioned but misguided liberal paternalism” [emphasis added].

“Soft-hearted liberal paternalism explains some of these actions. Administrators truly want to make the school more hospitable to minority students, and many also see racial consciousness as the healthy expression of a multicultural community. But a more insidious rationale also exists. Minority students drop out at higher rates than whites, and critics have attributed this to affirmative action programs that admit unqualified students to challenging schools where they are likely to fail. . .So by paying special attention to minority students, universities hope to retain more of them and quell criticisms of affirmative action” [emphasis added].

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A close scrutiny of [minorities’] claims exposes their spurious “facts” and assumptions. Cries of racism often stem from isolated incidents or from unreliable studies based on statistical chicanery. Homosexual groups hurl epithets whenever one refuses to swallow their [argument] hook, line and sinker. And charges of sexism often amount to nothing but irrelevant pouting [emphasis added].

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Lee’s record is rife with statements in which he mocks and minimizes women’s fight for equality. For example, in one article (in which Lee also misspelled “women” six times in an apparent effort to mock the feminist term “womyn”), Lee wrote:

Some egalitarians have charged that womon [sic] should be treated equally in all cases; this would include putting womein [sic] into the front-line battlefield. Unfortunately, no matter how many times they cry that both genders are equal, the reality is that men and womoen [sic] are biologically different, e.g. men are usually innately physically stronger than womin [sic] (although exceptions to that rule exist, especially in the author’s case). Any one [sic] who disputes that fact disputes nature. Some tasks are better suited for men, and others for women. This is not sexism; it is reality [emphasis added].

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supercanuck 2 points ago +2 / -0

Holy crap. This guy is LEGIT!

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JamesBlomey 2 points ago +2 / -0

Thanks for the post. Those dems think Lee was asking (why any sane person would be a leftist) 'sarcastically'? LOL

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JamesBlomey 1 point ago +1 / -0

Official portrait taken on the Supreme Court roof would be great.

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DTOM1776 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's a good knowledge share. I had no idea, what a wonderfully American story.