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Originally Posted by loquitur
Will, you know something? As I said, I quoted the freaking alignments right out of the supreme court case summary in the official reporter. That's why it was in quotes. If you think I"m lying to you, tell me and then I'll know how to deal with this.
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Those four cases were very helpful, but in order to determine whether there's an overall bias, I'd need a much larger sample.
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Originally Posted by loquitur
Do your own fucking research..
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I beg your pardon, but I already offered to do just that:
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Show me the website that outlines their various decisions and rationalizations and I'll go through them one by one and tally them up.
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Remember? I'm offering to go through 6 years of Supreme Court decisions (a.k.a. my own "fucking research")
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Originally Posted by loquitur
I'm outta here. I was in law school before you were born, and i don't need to be condescended to. Especially when you're not even being intellectually honest.
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No one was condescending. Until you started acting like being older than me means I'm wrong and you're right. Ageism is intellectually honest?
So anyway, wrapping this up for now:
- It's probably not a good idea to have the president and senate choose a supreme court justice, as it apparently leads to...
- the SCOTUS seeming to be quite political. While we're apparently close to having even political bias (4 to 4, with 1 swinger), it's still a problem. In 19 of the 24 5/4 decisions in the 2006-2007 term, the votes broke down political lines, which is why I want to look into this further to see if this is a hell of a fluke or if it represents the overall voting records of the justices. If it does...
- then Hillary becoming a Supreme Court Justice is not a good idea because it will simply continue the status quo of political bias. Hillary has proven to be a politician through and through, which combined with her partisan decisions would mean that she would likely be just another justice that represents Democratic interests on the bench.