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Hortense's avatar

I don't presume these guys are smart. I am just disappointed in how much they are bringing their personal views into their rulings. I naively have an expectation that they work to limit that, since it can't be truly eliminated. But with more conservatives on the court, they seem to have released their trues selves and are not ruling per their stated judicial philosophy.

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Dave Yell's avatar

Amazing how legislating from bench, legal conservative theory has ben turned on it head. "What were once Vices are now habits" so to speak. *Doobie Brothers

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Hortense's avatar

Your activist judges, my impartial judges. Tomato, tomahto.

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Dave Yell's avatar

Potato,Potahto. Let s call the whole thing off.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

They know this is their time, with a conservative majority, to release their religious beliefs on the nation & turn back all the progress thatтАЩs been made since the 1950тАЩs

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Hortense's avatar

I can't help but think that some of their decisions will be overturned by a future court, either because stare decisis no longer is paramount or the finding will be found in error, like the Dred Scott decision.

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Alondra's avatar

Alito lacks self-awareness to the extent that he seems to think his views are THE way things really are, not just the way he sees them.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Or the way heтАЩd like to see them

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Hortense's avatar

Perhaps if he and his wife engaged in a less confrontational way with their neighbors, he might get a better understanding of other view points. And his neighbors might have gotten a better understanding of his. But then there are "fundamental differences", so why bother?

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