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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (178772)1/7/2012 12:13:41 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541933
 
So you may think it is "silly" to talk about judicial/political bias in this context, but Sup Ct. watchers do it all the time--as well as legal scholars.

After all what is bias but a point of view, and a lot of constitutional decisions turn on that.

I was afraid that was your argument. And, if you check your text, that's not at all what you said. The "silliness" is to suppose that only bias is the source of SC decisions. Of course, points of view/bias/whatever, make up our perceptions of everything including "the law." But if it were only that, opposite sides in any ideological/point of view argument would simply not be able to talk with one another. Only force would prevail.

I repeat. That's just silly. When it comes to legal opinions.



To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (178772)1/7/2012 2:25:12 PM
From: Cogito  Respond to of 541933
 
BUTW, I don't think anyone would object to your bringing up the subject of political bias in this context. But what you did was to say the entire argument hinged only on political bias. I think that's what others and I are disagreeing with.


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