Put aside the fact that the term "brilliant" often means "you share my cultural vocabulary & you make me feel smart even when we disagree," it is (i'll say it) stupid to turn a public institution into a capstone reward for people who got good grades at Yale or Harvard law schools https://twitter.com/LAM_Barrett/status/1309850028152946690

Statements like so and so deserves to be on the court because he or she is smart gets me indescribably angry. The constitution isn't some sort of perfect mystical text to be decoded. It's a messy document that was negotiated by a few men through a political process 230 years ago