They are either appointed or elected. Who do you suggest does it? How does politics not play a role? Plenty of examples of SCJs turning out a LOT differently than their appointers/approvers expected to. Some are activists; some are strict interpreters, same as how different religious types/scholars read/view the Bible or the Koran. The debate between the two has been going on for nearly 250 years. It’s not new.Democracy in the US because of the inherent flaws in the system which allows for the breakdown in powers. Judges surely cannot be political appointments. How can a judge be deemed to be a democrat or republican appointment?
No, because justices aren’t fixed in their views and their interpretation of the law changes over time as the world changes and as people and culture and attitudes change and as new wrinkles complicate a fixed document (which can be amended, which is why we call them amendments) as any decent history book about the SC would demonstrate. That there are some whoppers on the court now there for life is shit, but again — what’s the better system for picking SCJs that completely eliminates politics or ensures each member interprets the law the same?This age old wrangling over the Supreme Court that leads essentially to a countdown to one of them croaking it. Excited about leaving a SC that leans one way over the other. Surely a fundamental problem, at the root of everything. No?
Nothing suspicious here at all.2 black lawmakers ousted from office whilst their white college survived the vote (for breaking the same rules) in the state that gave birth to the KKK.
Hmmm...???
2 black lawmakers ousted from office whilst their white college survived the vote (for breaking the same rules) in the state that gave birth to the KKK.
Hmmm...???
Because they don't care.What a weird look by the Tennessee GOP. Why not expel all three? Why make yourself to look like it was racially biased?
It’ll be pretty desperate if DeSantis gets in next. The bloke is a tool. The other options are as bleak and I include Biden in that. The west needs to embrace empathy and ditch the money money money shite.I don't think we're that desperate, but some of the shite I read here does remind me a lot of the match day thread :).
This. They want things to go back to when they were above consequences and white Christians controlled most everything.Because they don't care.