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As a particularly flaming leftist, I’d rather judges have to give up their political associations and take on a duty of being nonpartisan.
In an ideal world we could automate nonpartisan offices since no human is capable of doing it without bias. Since it’s not an ideal world, I’d prefer judges who lean closer to liberal than conservative, since the conservative ones seem pretty hellbent on marching in lockstep with the Republican party to make marginalized groups more miserable than they already are.
right? at this point for the justice system, “liberal” and “conservative” mean “has morals” and “freely accepts bribes”, respectively.
Automation requires programming and logic decisions, which implies bias by the people planning and writing the code. Unbiased automation ain’t gonna happen.
That is certainly a part of the ‘in an ideal world’ statement, yes.
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Remember when Hillary Clinton described racists, sexists, homophobes, xenophobes, and islamaphobes as a “basket of deplorables” and got met with resistance rather than acknowledgement?
These people are lunatics, arguably terrorists considering January 6th and the fact that my local school district has been getting bomb threats for this past week because of a TikTok. Blows me away that they’re just considered “a political party.”
It would be nice to have an apolitical court tied to principles of honesty, integrity and justice. Sadly, this is the state of the court instead:
The conservative bloc includes one justice who occasionally votes with the liberals, such as when he joined them in a 4-3 opinion to reject Donald Trump’s request to overturn his presidential loss in the state. The other conservatives sided with Trump.
“Giving up political associations” is way easier said then done. In particular because reality appears to lean liberal to a significant number of conservatives.
