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Examining a potential SCOTUS nominee's odd social media habits
ABCNews ^ | 6/30/2018 | Adia Robinson

Posted on 07/01/2018 5:51:58 AM PDT by mac_truck

On New Year’s Eve, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Don Willett channeled Rick Astley by tweeting “People of Earth—In 2018, @JusticeWillett will never: give you up, let you down, run around, desert you, make you cry, say goodbye, tell a lie, hurt you.”

Before that, Willett, at the time a justice on the Supreme Court of Texas, tweeted out his son confusing “Eminem” and “eminent,” a picture of three puppies and a picture of cornbread shaped like his home state.

But with Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announcing his retirement on Wednesday, and Willett’s name appearing on a list of Trump’s potential Supreme Court nominees, the judge’s frequent tweeting last year raises questions of judicial impartiality.

Legal scholars say there’s no legal provision prohibiting Supreme Court justices from sharing their opinions online or in speeches. The Supreme Court has maintained that the strict code of conduct that applies to lower court judges does not apply to them, but that doesn’t that the legal community looks favorably on justices making public comments.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; adiarobinson; banglist; concerntroll; donwillett; humor; mediaconcerntroll; mediawingofthednc; nra; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; ridiculous; scotus; secondamendment; smearmachine; texas; twitter; willett
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1 posted on 07/01/2018 5:51:58 AM PDT by mac_truck
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To: mac_truck

“Before that, Willett, at the time a justice on the Supreme Court of Texas, tweeted out his son confusing “Eminem” and “eminent,” a picture of three puppies and a picture of cornbread shaped like his home state”

WTF is this idiot author talking about?


2 posted on 07/01/2018 5:56:28 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: mac_truck

Attention potential nominees...bend over and spread’em because you’re about to undergo an extended anal exam until one of you is confirmed.

Libs and the media will be going through your life history, everything you ever said, wrote, read, or did. They’ll rifle through your trash, do background checks on your whole, extended family and all of their Tweets, FB, and other social media posts.

It’ll be a “war zone”.

Let Trump do the “blocking”, and try to ignore the media - best thing to do, is don’t even turn on the mainstream media.

I’m glad it isn’t me.


3 posted on 07/01/2018 5:56:36 AM PDT by FrankR ( Winners NEVER cheat, and Cheaters NEVER win.)
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To: mac_truck

Odd that ‘questions of judicial impartiality’ didn’t stop Buzzy Ginsberg from voting on the terror nation travel restrictions case.


4 posted on 07/01/2018 5:57:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: traderrob6

I’m afraid it looks like Justice Willett might be guilty of having a sense of humor and be prone on occasion to fits of laughter.


5 posted on 07/01/2018 5:59:44 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: traderrob6

Apparently cornbread is some kind of “dog whistle”

Or something.


6 posted on 07/01/2018 6:00:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: FrankR

Well said.


7 posted on 07/01/2018 6:01:17 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: mac_truck

Willett is guilty of openly supporting our Constitution including the Second Amendment.


8 posted on 07/01/2018 6:03:01 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: traderrob6

See here, he means to prove that the judge is crazy, therefore unfit, and if nominated, it just shows how Trump is colluding with Russia to get himself reelected. Understand the logic? Its infallible ...


9 posted on 07/01/2018 6:05:03 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: mac_truck

And so the Borking begins.


10 posted on 07/01/2018 6:11:47 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (The Democrats in California want another civil war over cheap labor!)
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To: BenLurkin
Apparently cornbread is some kind of “dog whistle”

Lol...I prefer my cornbread to be shaped like Kansas.

11 posted on 07/01/2018 6:12:32 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: FrankR
”Attention potential nominees...bend over and spread’em because you’re about to undergo an extended anal exam until one of you is confirmed.”

Oh. I guess I will ignore that call from the White House about that job offer. I am not much of a fan of the cavity search.

12 posted on 07/01/2018 6:13:12 AM PDT by vg0va3
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To: PIF
Understand liberal logic....b/c its infallible: the USSC nominee is crazy, therefore unfit.
Just goes to show how Trump is colluding with Russia to get himself reelected.

(Snort) I knew that.

13 posted on 07/01/2018 6:13:19 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: mac_truck

There it is. The intense anal scrutiny has begun. They are already analyzing social media posts. Tomorrow they go to the third grade teachers and ask them about the candidates. As soon as DMV opens, and after they have had their bathroom/coffee/chat breaks, they log on and search the records on the candidates. Tax offices, police departments, credit bureaus where democrat operatives work will see intense and secret examination of records, totally against the law and terms of employment.
When they find something they can use, lie or not, it goes to democrat central where it will be discussed and filed for use at the most opportune time.


14 posted on 07/01/2018 6:15:13 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Search Google for: "politico obama collusion with hezbollah". obama is a traitor to this country.)
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To: Liz

can’t see anything from the author, Adia Robinson, before a few weeks ago.

could this be her LinkedIn page not updated as yet?

LinkedIn: Adia Robinson
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adiahrobinson


15 posted on 07/01/2018 6:16:06 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Redleg Duke

No, you need Neckbrace Ted Kennedy to return and lecture us all on morality in “Borking” judicial nominees.


16 posted on 07/01/2018 6:18:31 AM PDT by laconic
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To: mac_truck

I like Willett. He and Barton would great picks. Hint, maybe someone else should resign to open up two deserving seats on the Supreme Court?


17 posted on 07/01/2018 6:19:49 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: mac_truck

UH OH! He’s a racist! The puppies are black, white and brown! What a racist!!!!! Unfit for the supreme court.

OOOOO! cornbread! isn’t that racist? quick! find something racist about it!

The left is dangerously insane. It is incapable of seeing HUMOR!!!


18 posted on 07/01/2018 6:21:39 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Search Google for: "politico obama collusion with hezbollah". obama is a traitor to this country.)
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To: traderrob6

Leftist media jackals will be looking for ways to destroy him


19 posted on 07/01/2018 6:30:45 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: BenLurkin

But Eminem is white. This is just silly.


20 posted on 07/01/2018 6:44:19 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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