Torn on this one. As a consumer of news, I can't understand what's going on in policy-relevant federal cases unless I know which president appointed the judge. It's like a decoder ring.https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1332759474419982337 …
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Is the fact that judicial decisions are driven by policy preferences and ideology supposed to be secret knowledge only political scientists hold, but is kept from news readers?
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When judges actually are making against-party independent decisions (as in the 2020 election cases), doesn't naming the president who nominated them just demonstrate that to the public? But if that almost never happens, doesn't the public have the right to know that too?
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Jon, I don't think that's the right question. By highlighting the president who appointed the judge, the press feeds into the narrative that law is just another method of accumulating power for whatever faction has it. That narrative is destructive
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This seems to imply the narrative is destructive whether it's true or not. But, surely it's only destructive if false, and the evidence shows it to be true.
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