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To: koan who wrote (9258)	12/20/2010 10:55:00 AM
From: Oeconomicus	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

"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." "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya I may regret this, but what, pray tell, do you mean by "the law is ... existential"? That it depends upon experience rather than reason, perhaps? How is this a secret at all, much less a "dirty little" one? What is the illusion here that you think "has [now] been uncovered" and how will it "prove a great stress on our democracy"? "Liberal judges will find liberal law and conservatve[sic] judges will find conservative law. They always did, but now it is in the open." Wait. We have two illusions now? That law is not existential and that judges are not influenced by their own philosophies of the law? When was it ever NOT in the open that liberal or conservative judges interpret the law in accordance with their liberalism or conservatism? Or are you once again using "conservative" not as a descriptor of legal or political philosophy, but as a euphemism for "things I don't like"?