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What use does the Supreme Court distinction have? It’s a political position. The lifetime appt likely means your side will defend you at most or all costs. Eve

What use does the Supreme Court distinction have? It’s a political position. The lifetime appt likely means your side will defend you at most or all costs. Even if I am able to verify one side or the other of the Court is being hypocritical with their argument for lifting Roe v Wade (abortion legality) soon via the careful examining of the results, will this mean anything more than catching any politician BSing?

Supermancho 4y ago
> What use does the Supreme Court distinction have? It’s a political position I think you mean political appointment. The discussion is centered around the philosophy of political positions and their utility over time. Regardless, the SCOTUS is also a political position that has a specific process and set of requirements (explicit and implicit). > will this mean anything more than catching any politician BSing? I think you're missing the point. The fact that the SCOTUS decisions are considered so important (despite being equally impactful to an individual as any local political decision) is a cognitive dissonance that is baked into modern US politics. One term is the longest that can be assessed and all others are relatively short term. That's worth trying to explain, rather than arguing over the merits of short-vs-long cycle political postings, as if there exists one-true-way.
lkrubner 4y ago
It is often said that the USA Supreme Court is politicized because it is chosen by elected officials, whereas in Britain the recommendations for the high court are made by legalists, and therefore the British high court is less political.
- Beldin 4y ago
  As an outsider, it's really weird to see the intense debates over the supreme court couched in terms of political points of view. I mean, that's what elections should be about... it really comes across as if Americans have given up hope of a functioning democracy and have retreated to battling for political appointments to the SC for long-term policy.
  - lkrubner 4y ago
    We did a long comparison of the constitutional crisis in Hungary and the USA here: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thesis-1-there-is-one-correct-way?s=r https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thesis-1-there-is-one-corre...

Supermancho 4y ago

> What use does the Supreme Court distinction have? It’s a political position I think you mean political appointment. The discussion is centered around the philosophy of political positions and their utility over time. Regardless, the SCOTUS is also a political position that has a specific process and set of requirements (explicit and implicit). > will this mean anything more than catching any politician BSing? I think you're missing the point. The fact that the SCOTUS decisions are considered so important (despite being equally impactful to an individual as any local political decision) is a cognitive dissonance that is baked into modern US politics. One term is the longest that can be assessed and all others are relatively short term. That's worth trying to explain, rather than arguing over the merits of short-vs-long cycle political postings, as if there exists one-true-way.

lkrubner 4y ago

It is often said that the USA Supreme Court is politicized because it is chosen by elected officials, whereas in Britain the recommendations for the high court are made by legalists, and therefore the British high court is less political.

Beldin 4y ago
As an outsider, it's really weird to see the intense debates over the supreme court couched in terms of political points of view. I mean, that's what elections should be about... it really comes across as if Americans have given up hope of a functioning democracy and have retreated to battling for political appointments to the SC for long-term policy.
- lkrubner 4y ago
  We did a long comparison of the constitutional crisis in Hungary and the USA here: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thesis-1-there-is-one-correct-way?s=r https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thesis-1-there-is-one-corre...