06-04-2024, 08:36 PM
(06-04-2024, 07:43 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: The cognitive dissonance on this board never fails to impress. We have constant conversations about the ability of professional jurists to remain politically impartial. Every thread on a SCOTUS decision has one side or the other lambasting certain justices for being partisan actors. Yet you think among residents of a county in which 86.8% of residents voted for Biden over Trump that you can find twelve impartial, amateur jury members who will completely discount their partisan leanings and judge a case based solely on its merits?
Just so we're clear, professional judges are not capable of being impartial, but twelve rando's from Manhattan definitely are?
Source for election results.
https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/new-york/
I think we need to be clear, though, SCOTUS justices are chosen because of their partisan leanings. When I talked about less faith in jurists as you move up the ladder, this is the sort of thing I am talking about. Presidents are expecting justices to rule a certain way when they appoint them. Now, they can go rogue from time to time, but as much as we like to pretend they are supposed to be non-partisan, they are expected to be partisan by the political class in Washington.
"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
