User talk:206.251.2.15

You probably won't see this, being an IP user, but I made the edit which included the inaccurate statement about the tradition of no post-election appointment to the federal bench. It was directly taken from the story in the Tampa Bay paper. So I went to the Breyer article and discovered you were absolutely right, about his nomination and confirmation forty years ago. I was not happy that the paper had made such an error. Ironically, a few hours before I posted it, I had read an older story in the Las Vegas Review Journal that had a half dozen or so errors of fact. The paper usually used a stringer whom I know for stories from the area in which the story originated, so I wrote to the stringer, whom I'd always found to be extremely accurate in sometimes difficult stories. It turned out that he didn't write it. So I appreciate the vigilance of your correction as a WP editor, though I disagree with you that the article is a "hit job." Activist (talk) 05:19, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
 * The appointment of Kimball Mizelle was originally reported by Bloomberg Law on November 18, 2020, as being the first since 1896 to occur after the appointing president had lost his reelection. That error was picked up by the Tampa Bay Times and was not corrected as of November 20. However Bloomberg Law corrected its story two hours after its original publication, to reflect Breyer's appointment, but the Tampa Bay Times which had hyperlinked to the uncorrected Bloomberg Law article, and to which the error was sourced, had not made a correction. I'll write to that paper so they can make their own correction. Activist (talk) 07:20, 20 November 2020 (UTC)