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No this is Kavanaugh trying to have his cake and eat it by saying one thing and doing another. He ducked out of making a ruling and Biden forced him to do so.
by jahewson 5y ago
No this is Kavanaugh trying to have his cake and eat it by saying one thing and doing another. He ducked out of making a ruling and Biden forced him to do so.
The court doesn’t get to make law by threatening to make law. They have to actually do it.
- rpmisms 5y agoThe court doesn't, or at least shouldn't, make law.
- Spivak 5y agoYou're about 850 years too late on that front. Common Law has been a thing since Henry the Second and we just ggyG'd the whole UK legal system and edited from there. You can't really avoid this either without throwing out judicial precedent because "knowing how the court will rule on subsequent cases" is basically the same as law.
- rpmisms 5y ago> You can't really avoid this either without throwing out judicial precedent because "knowing how the court will rule on subsequent cases" is basically the same as law. But that's not law. That's consistent interpretation of law. Very different.
- xxpor 5y agoYou're confusing statutes and the law. They're not the same thing. Just like a regulation isn't a statute, but it is the law.