One other point that I'm still struggling to articulate right now:
One of the reasons we have human judges rather than the legal equivalent of actuarial tables is so that judges can exercise judgment. As such, when a decision that seems perfectly legal on paper will do harm to individuals with little protection or resources, they should e…
One other point that I'm still struggling to articulate right now:
One of the reasons we have human judges rather than the legal equivalent of actuarial tables is so that judges can exercise judgment. As such, when a decision that seems perfectly legal on paper will do harm to individuals with little protection or resources, they should err on the side of our most marginalized (not for our billionaire class, to be abundantly clear).
From this perspective, any decision that keeps individuals who were never given due process in captivity is, by definition, the wrong one.
One other point that I'm still struggling to articulate right now:
One of the reasons we have human judges rather than the legal equivalent of actuarial tables is so that judges can exercise judgment. As such, when a decision that seems perfectly legal on paper will do harm to individuals with little protection or resources, they should err on the side of our most marginalized (not for our billionaire class, to be abundantly clear).
From this perspective, any decision that keeps individuals who were never given due process in captivity is, by definition, the wrong one.