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Standards are different for someone who's trying to sit on the highest court in the land. When I served in the military I saw people denied security clearances for less than Gorsuch did.
The policy for at least the last 10 years are that for actions taken prior to 18, only if it were within a 5 year period, if at all, unless it is egregious. This isn't egregious. It is the typical type of club a kid who is intelligent and loves to debate thinks is great to form or belong to. They are too young to understand not everyone gets irony or sarcasm and will take such a name literally. And, cough, you have no idea why those people were denied a security clearance, only what they tell you. Besides, they aren't always told why either.
There is, by the way, a reason juvenile records are sealed - juveniles are still trying to figure out who they are, plus their reasoning process is still developing. I know very few adults who don't cringe at some of the things they did as a teenager if they are reminded of some of their actions or words.
Find something else to be outraged over about him. I have faith you'll find something.
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The government reaches back to high school when deciding whether or not to issue a security clearance. A permanent appointment to the highest court in the land should come with at least as much scrutiny.
I don't care what the government does. I know you don't get it, but look at it from a PR point of view. You folks are letting your hatred of this administration blind you to how silly it is to use something from high school. It's petty and wierdly obsessive. I'm sure most of you locked in the same echo chamber agree with each, but most of America just looks at you people in disgust.
In High School I played baseball, wrestled and avoided typing class.
I guess that 36 years later that still defines who I am.
I no longer play baseball. Never watch it on TV either.
I no longer wrestle and pay no attention to HS wrestling.
In my job I do a fair amount of typing, but not on a type writer.
I don't care what his high school hobbies were.
Millions of Americans find themselves unable to find work because of mistakes they made in high school. For a job THIS important, any flirtation with fascism should be disqualifying.
Like Hillary and her love of Marxism ya mean when she was on the board of editors for Yale Review of Law and Social Action? That was well past High School.
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