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Originally Posted by simplicitus
Even McGann, a hardcore deplorable who is not a judge, bucked Trump, even at the expense of his lifelong goal of more conservative catholic judges. Again, Trump is appointing hacks, and some will stay hacks, but the world is changing.
You may be correct that the pipeline of highly qualified and credentialed right wing lawyers is drying up, but it’s still going to be a very long time before you see any results of this. These “hacks” are going to be on the bench for 40 years each. They will pick clerks who align with their viewpoints, and shape their districts with their opinions and local practices that entire time.
It will be 75 years before a clerkship with the Scalia/Thomas—Alito/Kav/Gorsuch line and their lower court progeny fades out. And in the meantime that credential is a golden ticket to money and prestige for a young lawyer. There are no shortage of people who are going to dedicate themselves to that, even if the H/Y/S crop steadily declines.
Speaking as a early 30s attorney in a very conservative area, there definitely does not seem to be a shortage of people my age who are set up to follow in the Barr footsteps. There’s a huge gulf between Barr and Miller in terms of traditional qualification, we’ll all be dead by the time there are truly no other alternatives between.