In 2016, the Alliance for Justice posted, on its website, a letter from 350 academics to Senate Majority Leader McConnell explaining that it was the Senate’s “constitutional duty to give President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee a prompt and fair hearing and a timely vote.”
The Alliance for Justice’s letter was posted here: <https://afj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Law-professor-SCOTUS-vacancy-letter.pdf>. But it is no longer there! Why is that? The press release was posted here: <https://www.afj.org/press-room/press-releases/over-350-lawprofessors-urge-senators-to-fulfill-their-constitutional-duty>. It too is no longer there! Why is that?
I discussed the letter here: Seth Barrett Tillman, The Two Discourses: How Non-Originalists Popularize Originalism and What that Means, New Reform Club (Mar. 28, 2016, 9:22 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-two-discourses-how-non-originalists.html>.
I have posted a copy of the original letter here: <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3715342>. It is funny how things disappear from the web.
Seth
Seth Barrett Tillman, The Alliance for Justice’s 2016 Letter to McConnell has gone Missing!, New Reform Club (Oct. 20, 2020, 3:53 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-alliance-for-justices-2016-letter.html>.
PS: Here is another copy: <https://perma.cc/WY7Y-8JJ4>.
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Another case of disappearing "ink"? The memory black hole opened up and ate it.
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ReplyDeleteNot only is the letter gone, but the banner at the top of the "Oops" page says, "With voting already underway, now is not the time to ram through a Supreme Court Justice. Alliance for Justice pledges to fight this nominee with everything we can." If that's not a perfect example of why ACB's nomination is only a problem because it's conservatives doing the nominating, I don't know what is.
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