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I think historically in England, America and Australia, the only thing that restrained judges was thier loyalty to the idea of the "legal fraternity". As it was, a judge could bend logic backwards to come up with a pure political decision but there plenty of other quality judges with SHARP legal minds who could call bullshit on them.
I've had to read cases and I'll admit it all looks like bullshit on the surface but sometimes you can dig down and find a really beautiful arguments. Check out some of the english judges like Lord Denning. Other times you keep reading and it just remains bullshit.
Anyway, law is just another business now, just another chance to make a buck and get some dickhead another Porsche. It's had the life sucked out of it, just like all of the other professions. You have law journalists (like what Charles Dickens used to be) who sit there and go "hang on, did that judge just justify their decision by saying that the sky was purple and hamburgers ate people?"
"Hey, who cares; so-and-so won their case, that's all that matters."
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