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The Supreme Court Uses Twisted Logic to Protect US Agents Committing Torture
- haspoken 5y agoDirect link to article: https://mises.org/wire/supreme-court-uses-twisted-logic-protect-us-agents-committing-torture https://mises.org/wire/supreme-court-uses-twisted-logic-prot...
- salawat 5y agoWell... That happened. There truly are days where I feel like the Judiciary is the most frightening part of the government to me. To have the People's last resort crumble to the whims of the executive like that... Yeesh. So much for principle.
- mbg721 5y agoIf it's any consolation, the judiciary is the last bit of government where the predictable partisan assumptions don't always apply. (The dissent in this case included both Gorsuch and Sotomayor.) Conservatives generally complain that this is because appointees-for-life lean left as they age.