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Originally Posted by Willravel
Third paragraph, last sentence. Our of the 24 5/4 decisions in the 2006-2007 term, 19 "broke 5-4 along ideological lines".
I am against abortion. If I were on the Supreme Court, I would not rule against abortion based on my personal beliefs because I would have taken an oath to be impartial.
Jesus, look at the moderation on TFP. All in all, it's impartial. I dance on Cynthetiq's nerves constantly, but he has never once let our disagreements spill over into his administrative duties on the site. Why? Because he understands that as an administrator he is responsible for being fair and impartial. You yourself do the same thing. And no, this isn't sucking up.
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thanks.... but that doesn't mean that I can't have an opinion and can't express it.
So what you're saying by this is that your impartialness creates an instant "bias" because any view you personally have, you must vote opposite of it. How is that impartial? How is that something that someone can acutally measure and understand just how "impartial" one is? Because the fill out a questionaire and then decide based on the oppposite of what they filled out?
In fact it sounds like you're trying
method of living as an SCJ. That is patently absurd on its face. It may in fact even be more like we've entered the world of
Note: ideological does not mean or equal POLITICAL. You know better than that, you are smarter than that, at least that's what I thought from previous posts. This current thread you've undone most of that since you're claiming that ideological = political and that the framers did something so egregiously stupid that no one has discussed it or thought about it for 200+ years.
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