{"id":81326,"date":"2022-03-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81326"},"modified":"2022-04-29T08:47:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T13:47:41","slug":"81326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81326","title":{"rendered":"Expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCENE: Mitch BERG is having a glass of wine at the bar in Whole Foods in Saint Paujl, after a day of vigorous shopping<\/em>. Lost in the reverie, he doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE has walked in. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Oh, shhhhhuuuure enough, it’s Avery. Long time no see. What’s u..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: Marsha Blackburn asked Ketanji Brown Jackson a stupid, badgering question at her confirmation hearing to be the best Supreme Court justice ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Best?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: She is the most qualified jurist in history! The Washington Post <\/em>showed it! Pictures, being science, never lie!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Well, not so much<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: I never read National Review<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Clearly. So why do you think it was a “stupid, badgering question”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: It’s purely politicized, and she’ll never have to rule on that. “What’s a woman?” Mitch, please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: First: SCOTUS hearings, politicized? Bring that up when Robert Bork, Janice Rogers Brown, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett are up for confirmation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: Those people were all in the past…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Exactly. As to never having to rule on that? Perhaps. But answering “what is a woman?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: It was an unfair question for which she had no time to prepare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: (looking at watch). A woman is an adult human with two “X” chromosomes. Three seconds. No prep time. And I didn’t even go to Harvard Law School. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: She will never have to rule on what a woman is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Perhaps. But she’ll be asked to rule on questions where much of the population does <\/em>know what the answer is; the fact she’s willing to equivocate on something this comical, to keep the “progressive” wing of her party happy, is a very bad sign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: There are no such quesitons in the law! Its science!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: When does human life being?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: I don’t know. I’m not a doctor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: When do community standards violate free association?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: I don’t know. I’m not the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Huh. When does the right to free speech interfere with private property rights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: I don’t know. I’m not a professor of rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Huh. What does the phrase “Right of the People” mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: I don’t know. I’m not a law professor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: A SCOTUS justice will be ruling on any or all of those things, including in the next term. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: I don’t care. It was still a stupid question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Nah. It fixed the front lines in the culture war – the issue beneath all the other issues in the upcoming mid-terms. And it showed which side are the metaphorical Russians, and which are the figurative Ukrainians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: Bla bla bla. So where are the avocados?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: I don’t know. I’m not a grocer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(And SCENE<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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