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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: mph who wrote (105265)12/8/2000 9:32:08 AM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
BIG IDEA!!!. This country needs to move towards implementing automated systems to augment the legal system. Slowly, cautiously, carefully, but deliberately. I can see no other way to bring logic and PREDICTIBILITY back into our legal system.

What is there to fear from applying technology to the administration of the law? Isn't it a root premise that the law is logical, and impartial? I'm a layman but I get that distinct impression that this is now a false premise. I have an idea that the legal code in our country is so riddled with vague and even contradictory laws that it is on the verge of becoming irrelevant. That the only thing relevant is the cleverness, the personality, the networks, and the prejudices of the people who administer it. The inverse of the ideal of the Rule of Law.

It is a scandal that our legal system, upon which so much depends, has fallen so far behind the rest of society in the use of technology. I only dimly percieve the magnitude of the investment it would take to implement these systems. But look at the returns on technology investments that have accrued in other parts of society. Some think it is creating a New Economy. Think of the possibilities of using technology to create a New Justice.

Some commentators suggested that that
is what the FSC did in its original opinion, i.e.
determined the result they wanted and worked backwards.

To be fair, that often happens in cases since
the justices know where they want to go with it.
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