President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Getting harder to argue that the economy isn’t improving, or that Trump isn’t responsible for it.

 

You have no idea what a good judge is. You want judges to be political.

 

Well, I’m not sure that’s true.

Scalia has opinions that I disagreed with politically, that I also believe were the right decision legally.

I don’t want political judges, but unless both sides agree they’re bad, I’m not going to lose any sleep over Trump’s nominees.

I mean, let’s look at some of the decisions that have already been overturned this year. You don’t think a lot of the lower court rulings on things like “travel bans” were purely political decisions?

 

Hard? What are you talking about? I can use all the same arguments you spent the last eight years spouting. ....

There are still 90 million people unemployed, the workforce participation rate is near a record low, the real unemployment rate is actually something like 10 or 20 or 40 percent, and stock market gains don't help the average working Joe.

All those arguments were good enough for you before. What changed?

 

Or, let’s take Roe. There are a precious few principles liberals, who though they support abortion rights politically, will admit that the ruling was atrocious.

If liberals aren’t interested in politics influencing judicial decisions, why is it so hard to find more than a handful who will admit this?

 

You are responding to an imaginary post.

 

Yup. Not much to the story except a bunch of disgruntled neocons whining because they didn't get their way.

 

How about the criticism Gorsuch took for his dissent in the case involving the trucker who abandoned his trailer?

Are any of the criticisms based on law, rather than politics/feelings?

 

From a practical and selfish standpoint, what I want are judges that are intellectually honest and also smart enough not to get misled by logical fallacies and mischaracterizations.

 

I'll have to catch up. I honestly spend very little time these days thinking about law when I'm not at work and being paid to think about law.

 

Cran has a tattoo of Kermit Gosnell.