04-14-2023, 08:35 AM
(04-13-2023, 07:27 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: I'll let you in on another secret.
When someone doesn't like what's written up in a report because it feels biased to them, it some how gets leaked to the public and then the media slams it
Amicus briefs are generally public. Their bias, though, isn't covered because given that cases before SCOTUS are never cut and dry (that's why they are there after all) the briefs submitted are always going to be biased to the side they are supporting. It is the nature of the situation. Bias is constantly present so reporting on it is pointless. We throw around the word as if bias is some big thing that magically makes an argument null and void but the truth is that bias is constantly at play in every aspect of these things.
Codes of ethics exist to prevent undue bias and to promote equitable actions by the state. But they can't eliminate all bias because of how engrained it is.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
