1. The faithless-elector decision is, its legal merits aside, a healthy development for the fall elections. States can, of course, allow faithless electors, but long tradition has taught Americans & their candidates to assume that the winner of a state's vote gets its electors.
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The point is not that it was politically polarizing or not—the issue is whether it’s *political* or not. It was very much *political* but in way that neither side thought a result fr the plaintiffs would advantage them. The cellphone case was non political—which is where you see
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them actually most seem like judges—reading facts in context, properly applying case law, thinking in terms logically, not tendentiously. That’s when the justices have interesting coalitions/concurrences.
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