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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (9255)	12/20/2010 12:09:41 AM
From: koan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Yes, the dirty little secret about the law is that in the end it is existential and will prove a great stress on our democracy now that that illusion has been uncovered. Liberal judges will find liberal law and conservatve judges will find conservative law. They always did, but now it is in the open. And the supreme court is fueling the flames of that right now with it scitizens united decision; and they decided an election the way they wanted it in 2000. <<I have great difficulty discussing de facto politics, because they are protean by design. I am on slightly better ground with matters of jurisprudence, but the correlation between law and justice is famously poor. It is a great irony that appellate judges in the USA are called justices, when indeed justice is not their purview or bailiwick. That is the elaboration and application of law. The difficult interface between codified law and socially effective justice consumes the energies and intellects of thousands of American professionals in law, many of them possessed of brilliance, dedication and integrity. It is generally the venal ones who sloganize.