tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post5092709859023329226..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: Sotomayor Too ThoroughDavid Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-34564888641941309122009-06-22T22:13:46.311-07:002009-06-22T22:13:46.311-07:00personally i dont care if the opinions are excitin...personally i dont care if the opinions are exciting as long as they lay out tons of reasoning. Of course snappy quotables are fun but it makes the memo writing easier when they simply spell the holding and reasoning out and place it in context with previous decisions.The Gaucho Politicohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12842680553585405562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-21889631082694892002009-06-22T14:40:00.663-07:002009-06-22T14:40:00.663-07:00Ha, I foreshadowed this one last Friday. I went ho...Ha, I foreshadowed this one last Friday. I went home for a family gathering, and one of my cousins asked me what I thought about Sotomayor's nomination. I said that she was competent and unexciting, and that only lawyers and law students cared about having judges who wrote <i>interesting</i> opinions, because we're stuck reading them, whereas normal people just care about whether the judge does a good job of deciding the case and explaining the facts and reasoning. The idea that a judge should be evaluated based on her judging, rather than on the number of references to Dante's Inferno that she can get into an opinion, met with general approval from my laymen relatives.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.com