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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 5

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Erica Goldberg

    Lot of people in the legal world are so committed to their phoney baloney jobs that they aren't willing to acknowledge basic reality.https://twitter.com/GoldbergPrime/status/1521884261481123841 …

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    Erica Goldberg @GoldbergPrime
    There is a nihilism spreading among people who disagree with overturning Roe (as I also do). They don't tout these views when the Court acts politically in ways they like. This is anti-intellectual. Judges more often use logical legal reasoning bc it is necessary for rule of law. https://twitter.com/jaywillis/status/1521879188570984449 …
    4:48 PM - 5 May 2022
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    • scarcity is the enemy Skutch Barry Freed أماندا Melinda Muller Осторожно, Жюль Верн! Actually... ㅤ James Ehrler
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      1. Jordan Acker‏Verified account @JordanAckerMI May 5
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I can’t decide whether it’s keyfabe or real. But it is profoundly embarrassing.

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      1.  🌲Andy  👣from  👣Oregon 🌲‏ @AndrewFmOregon May 5
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I mean, here's Alito basically saying liberals are a threat to the United States.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/us/samuel-alito-religious-liberty-free-speech.html …

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      1. Ironic‏ @J_Plus May 5
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        All law is exactly the same as a college freshman combing wikipedia for sources that support their already-decided thesis the night before a paper is due

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      2. George Gantsoudes‏ @Peds_Ortho May 5
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        In this increasingly partisan age, judges are given a vaccine to protect them from partisanship once they are elected/appointed. This protects them from ever needing to worry about their personal feelings interfering with them rigorously practicing the scientific field of law.

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      3. Joe PenguinPtakk ☭‏ @nq64kwv4kg May 5
        Replying to @Peds_Ortho @HeerJeet

        That’s the thinking, but the reality is that judges are human and if the system of values upon with they rest their laurels is changing so fast that it seems to the older folks that it’s bottoming out, I imagine cynicism and hostility is just around the corner in their minds.pic.twitter.com/5BQvP0YaKA

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      1. Tristan Schweiger‏ @tjschweiger May 5
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        The idea that any aspect of the law, which is there first and foremost to codify relations of power, could ever be “not political” is wild. And wilder still so many lawyers appear to believe it. (Though I’d say right-wing lawyers only claim to believe it very cynically.)

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      2. Dan‏ @lawofdan May 5
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Eh, you really have to split The Law into two situations: stuff that's not politically divisive along partisan lines, and stuff that is. The vast majority of cases, the ones that don't get reported on, judges really are just trying not get reversed and have the case come back.

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      3. Dan‏ @lawofdan May 5
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        That said, the handful of cases where courts are and know they're Doing Politics are so serious and, at this point, unsalvageably lacking democratic legitimacy, we need systemic reform, starting at the top.

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      1. heresiarch‏ @heresiarch May 6
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        The most generous interpretation of this sort of thing is that many lawyers believe the law, like Tinkerbell, requires everyone to believe in it real hard in order to keep existing

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