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To: Doo who wrote (466269)	1/26/2021 2:15:32 PM
From: Jamie153	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542798

They say the same about the bible. We need experts to tell us what's in both even though both were written for the common man.

To: Doo who wrote (466269)	1/26/2021 3:58:10 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542798

I am not looking to argue, but I do like substantive discussions and the politicization of the courts by the Republicans is a worthwhile issue, besides the one about how the Republicans have packed the courts looking to right wing ideology instead of judicial wisdom. The big tell, as to the great failure of our legal system to rule logically and fairly, one needs to look no farther than all the 5/4 type decisions. If the law was always based on logic or something tangible that would not be possible and shows that the Republicans have blatantly put ideology over capability. I am not a lawyer, but I have a pretty solid background in statistics and I know what a level of confidence is in probability I looked up the number of 5/4 type decisions and it is worse than most think. What it shows is two populations of judges, right and left, who see the law totally differently making it sort of fungible, which I don't think it is supposed to be :)>. Research below: "I don’t want to completely overstate the point that [the decisions were] all 5-4, [with] the conservatives on one side and the liberals on the other. There are exceptions. But this has been a term where the main theme has been ideological division." It is remarkable that Justice Kennedy is the only one connecting the blue blob on the left with the red blob on the right. Given that President Trump’s nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh is widely expected to be more conservative than Justice Kennedy, the network diagram I will draw next year probably has two entirely separate mini-networks, one blue and one red, with no lines drawn between them." What Percentage of U.S. Supreme Court Cases are Decided 5-4, and Which Justices Vote Together Most Often? A Review of Historical and the 2017-2018 Term Data · Yiqin Fu cheers