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Cardoza's avatar

so they're mostly picking former federal appellate judges because they're now mostly picking catholics (originalists and/or textualists)

once they want to go back to finding rules between the amendments (miranda, exclusionary, brady), they'll go back to picking philosophers

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Corners's avatar

now that the supreme court protects ordinary people (heller) and not just professors, police, parasites, and politicians, it needs to be staffed by ordinary people and not elected officials

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Curtis's avatar

only appellate judges have the space-age technology to enforce medium-neutrality (EMA), content-neutrality (RAV), civilian rights (Heller), no special-privileges for journalists

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Wool's avatar

Before Nixon, a judge's job was to create rules, like Miranda, which anyone can do.

But after Woodstock, a judge's job was to enforce the rule of law: no one is above the law; every right the police or journalist has, so does every other civilian.

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Scalz's avatar

the 68 gun-control act and Red Lion were America's Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After that everything had to change if america was going to save it's soul--the bill of rights and strict scrutiny

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