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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (211402)7/19/2018 9:53:30 AM
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Yes sometimes there is some ambiguity. But there is a difference between honestly trying to shift through ambiguity and using motivated reasoning to "figure out" that the law or constitution says exactly what your policy or ideological preferences calls for.

To give an example involving constitutional law - Roe vs. Wade. I'm pro-life but if I was a justice on the supreme court at the time it was decided I wouldn't be doing my job properly if I said the constitution recognizes the right to life of the unborn. If I was doing my job correctly I would see that the constitution is silent on the issue and thus under the tenth amendment it would be left to the states.

Or to get back to your original idea that was challenged earlier, it shouldn't much matter if a justice "has sat in an office with a client facing life in prison...has sat in a room with a young man whose child is about to be taken away by Social Services because of the results of an investigation... etc. To the very minimal extent that its about compassion, sympathy, or empathy you can have those without having been a trial lawyer, and in any case it really isn't about that but about interpreting the law (including constitutional law).
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