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You can't possibly put the result of Bush being elected on a Supreme Court Justice. Any more than you can put it on a single person who voted for him. Yes, the

• Beltiras 11y ago
  Actually one can. Just like the cause of a hanged man's death is the knot the hangman tied. There's a great big sequence of events preceding it for sure.
  • saalweachter 11y ago
    That's not really an apt analogy; if a hangman refuses to tie a knot, they'll find another hangman. The Supreme Court Justice specifically gets to choose one way or the other.
    • ethbro 11y ago
      No, he or she doesn't. Because if they did so arbitrarily then they have likely long since been thrown off the lower benches. A judge doesn't decide: a judge weighs evidence and then states which interpretation of the law they believe is correct. If we had a judicial system arbitrated over by people who could simply say "I want this outcome" and make it so, then the country would and should crumble.
      • saalweachter 11y ago
        ... if?