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I'm always surprised there isn't more coverage of this. We love to focus on how polarized the court is, but a surprising number of decisions are unanimous or ne

by tharne 5y ago

I'm always surprised there isn't more coverage of this. We love to focus on how polarized the court is, but a surprising number of decisions are unanimous or near unanimous.

vmception 5y ago
Also: everyone thinks the case they care about is a landmark case. Doesn't mean its a big deal, for you or the people you care about or at all.
- whatshisface 5y ago
  The SC tries to only take landmark cases and their precedent is more important than the precedent of any other court.
  - vmception 5y ago
    which doesn't change anything I wrote at all not everything on their docket has the same weight of importance as the other things on their docket, nearly everyone thinks the thing on the docket that they care about is more important than the other thing just something to keep in mind when someone is trying to get you to pay attention to their cause
dado3212 5y ago
That’s because most of the decisions are like this one: “hey, I think this law is being interpreted wrongly” and then the Court says “no idea how you read it like that, it says this”. As they say in the closing statement, “We reiterate that today’s decision addresses only the narrow question whether §1806(f ) displaces the state secrets privilege. Because we conclude that §1806(f ) does not have that effect under either party’s interpretation of the statute, we do not decide which interpretation is correct. Nor do we decide whether the Government’s evidence is privileged or whether the District Court was correct to dismiss respondents’ claims on the pleadings.” This is how most of them come down, and how most of them should come down: “Congress wrote it like this, if you want to change it, get Congress to pass a new law”.
mfer 5y ago
Where is the media money in unanimous or near unanimous coverage? A lot of the media model is around shocking news to pull in eyeballs to make more money. Outrage increases engagement and what's outrageous about the court being on the same page?

by tharne 5y ago

I'm always surprised there isn't more coverage of this. We love to focus on how polarized the court is, but a surprising number of decisions are unanimous or near unanimous.

vmception 5y ago

Also: everyone thinks the case they care about is a landmark case. Doesn't mean its a big deal, for you or the people you care about or at all.

whatshisface 5y ago
The SC tries to only take landmark cases and their precedent is more important than the precedent of any other court.
- vmception 5y ago
  which doesn't change anything I wrote at all not everything on their docket has the same weight of importance as the other things on their docket, nearly everyone thinks the thing on the docket that they care about is more important than the other thing just something to keep in mind when someone is trying to get you to pay attention to their cause

dado3212 5y ago

That’s because most of the decisions are like this one: “hey, I think this law is being interpreted wrongly” and then the Court says “no idea how you read it like that, it says this”. As they say in the closing statement, “We reiterate that today’s decision addresses only the narrow question whether §1806(f ) displaces the state secrets privilege. Because we conclude that §1806(f ) does not have that effect under either party’s interpretation of the statute, we do not decide which interpretation is correct. Nor do we decide whether the Government’s evidence is privileged or whether the District Court was correct to dismiss respondents’ claims on the pleadings.” This is how most of them come down, and how most of them should come down: “Congress wrote it like this, if you want to change it, get Congress to pass a new law”.

mfer 5y ago

Where is the media money in unanimous or near unanimous coverage? A lot of the media model is around shocking news to pull in eyeballs to make more money. Outrage increases engagement and what's outrageous about the court being on the same page?