Stump Lane

Fuck deep knowledge of the law. Fuck respect for precedent. Fuck empathy. Here’s a guy with different life experiences, who has made different life choices than the average establishment judicial nominee. This guy might just be punk rock enough to shake up the Supreme Court and make it interesting.

I nominate Mark Borchardt, subject of the great documentary, American Movie to the Supreme Court.

Here is Borchardt lashing out against the soulless emptiness of one of our finest American traditions: Toil:

I’d be interested to see how he would answer questions about these comments in confirmation hearings

[There’s some additional thoughts on the law and the court over at my place with a couple of questions in the post and comments for any constitutional law scholars out there.]