Broken Norms Should End Business-As-Usual Nominations

By Neera Tanden (July 21, 2018, 11:47 AM EDT) -- Since the announcement of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, a parade of law professors — many of them with connections to Yale Law School — have made statements about Kavanaugh being a great person and a great mentor of clerks. Others have signed onto this campaign to humanize Kavanaugh by extolling his virtues as a "carpool dad" and middle school basketball coach.[1] The law school itself issued a press release where various faculty argued he was a great person, and some argued he was a great judge....

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