Here's the thing: if you check on the other site, Father Dailey opposes the J6 pardons and ICE abuse. And yet when it comes to the Supreme Court, he allows them a level of deference that I don't think the court currently deserves
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Terminal lawyer-brain imo. They care more about process than the result.
jun 28, 2025, 8:49 am • 0 0 • view
He opposes those things, he just doesn’t want anyone in power to do anything about them. “Alas.”
jun 28, 2025, 1:30 am • 2 0 • view
Fwiw I say this as someone who followed him and occasionally engaged with him amicably at the other site, in the less-bad days. Like many other lawyers, he just won’t recognize the moment for what it is.
jun 28, 2025, 1:32 am • 2 0 • view
He's also clearly stanning ACB for parochial reasons. Hell he probably knows her personally.
jun 28, 2025, 1:29 am • 3 0 • view
I think this is straight up a Notre Dame thing. The two people I saw under the Ken White post defending the Supreme Court on this were both ND law professors
jun 28, 2025, 1:33 am • 3 0 • view
I suspect a big part of this is viewing the status of law in America as more sacrosanct as it actually is, and the court as genuine arbiters of constitutional order.
jun 28, 2025, 1:27 am • 59 1 • view
Anti-postivism is a helluva drug.
jun 28, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah. He's discounting obvious and clear practical effects and next steps in favor of analysis from an extreme remove.
jun 28, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
Well, that, and also I assume he does not want to condemn the Court because doing so means condemning his former colleague, the pride of Notre Dame Law School, Amy Coney Barrett
jun 28, 2025, 1:36 am • 9 0 • view
cannot be understated how big it was to Notre Dame and NDLS specifically to get one of its grads on the Court for the first time, it’s clouded the judgment of everyone at ND since the moment they violated COVID protocols to introduce her at that Rose Garden press conference
jun 28, 2025, 1:51 am • 2 0 • view
A big part of this, I suspect, is that the padre is a former colleague of Barrett's. Or maybe I have the causation swapped and it's that Barrett was a colleague of his at ND because she's a christian nationalist. Not sure the distinction matters.
jun 28, 2025, 1:43 am • 2 0 • view
Yup. An impossibly naive/deferential position. bsky.app/profile/fath...
jun 28, 2025, 1:49 am • 1 0 • view
If he supports Trump, as he does, he cites not oppose the ice abuse. He just wishes it wasn’t visible. I feel you are doing special pleading
jun 28, 2025, 1:28 am • 0 0 • view
He does not support Trump. He does however, support this court.
jun 28, 2025, 1:29 am • 3 0 • view
It sounds like he ideologically supports the court’s ideologically motivated rulings but doesn’t want to admit it so hides behind it in vague legalese.
jun 28, 2025, 1:36 am • 2 0 • view
Who did he vote for?
jun 28, 2025, 1:30 am • 0 0 • view
He supports Dobbs and a few other conservative opinions, I’m guessing
jun 28, 2025, 1:33 am • 2 0 • view
Correct! He's said as much, and as a pluralist liberal, it's a view that can licitly be held: where I am disagreeing with him is his view of American constitutional order and his understanding of SCOTUS.
jun 28, 2025, 1:34 am • 2 0 • view
I think the guy who logs on Friday to cry more libs, and ignore all good faith debate, should not get credit here Trust me, like knows like
jun 28, 2025, 1:36 am • 3 0 • view
My thought was incomplete. He thinks it was SUCH a good decision the consequence of a lot of pain in the country is worth it, also since it was such a good and honest decision he reads the justices as much more noble than they are (thus deserving benefit of the doubt re: citizenship)
jun 28, 2025, 1:39 am • 3 0 • view
And I honestly don’t think the tent is be big enough to make room for Dobbs-supporters (which different from abortion disagreement)
jun 28, 2025, 1:41 am • 4 0 • view
a little too on-the-nose that a man of his background is willing to forgive the Institution even if he has personal reservations
jun 28, 2025, 1:50 am • 3 0 • view