UnNews talk:Brett Kavanaugh misspells Führerprinzip

Article swings and misses

I see a way to have fun with this news: Trump appoints now three new Justices to the Supreme Court, and they obediently skew state ballot laws to drop states into his re-election lap. However, as we say at CoW, gotta be careful not to seem like the many people making this point in dead seriousness. One of which is the blog you quote. It would be better to cite a mainstream news source rather than a blog making a point that you, well, make again.

The big problem is that the UnNews does not turn on the news your source reports. Instead, it turns on two links in the article, which jump to tweets at Twitter alleging errors (not typos!) in the concurring opinion Kavanaugh wrote. I'm not even sure the errors are errors:

• Kav says Vermont didn't change its law; a tweet contains a link that Vermont did pass S.348 allowing mail-in voting. The underlying point is unaffected, that the states' responses to the Coronavirus differed.
• In a footnote, Kav says Rehnquist in Bush v. Gore said "the text of the Constitution" puts review of state election laws on the Supreme Court, while in fact that case set aside any such duty in favor of giving Florida a deadline no one could meet. But Kav's point is to tell the minority that there is a reason to involve the Supreme Court.

So the thesis of the UnNews is not that Kavanaugh is Trump's lapdog but that he is a poor scholar, and ranty to boot. If the reader even cares, and follows the trail as I have, he won't see it either. Spıke 🎙️13:52 28-Oct-20

Ah, better! Now, can you put a name on your "scholar of the German language" and give it a real lede? Cheers! Spıke 🎙️14:52 28-Oct-20