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I truly wish more people were legally literate, and considering how much intellectual overlap there is between software engineering and legal writing I would ha
by jimmygrapes 4y ago
I truly wish more people were legally literate, and considering how much intellectual overlap there is between software engineering and legal writing I would have expected better from the HN crowd, but so far all I see is a lot of talking point parroting about partisanship from those who clearly haven't even tried to read the rulings.
- scottLobster 4y agoGiven the quality of the conversation on Reddit (top-voted memes calling Justice Barrett a handmaiden and so forth), HN is still a cut above :)
- InTheArena 4y agoReddit is beyond toxic at the moment.
- iostream24 4y agoThis place is more unfriendly, to be honest, as we get more knives in the back than frontal assaults, which are fairly easy to fend off or disconnect from. I can at least up and down vote comments on Reddit. Here I just get greyed out and can’t hit back
- MaxLeiter 4y agoI think its quite fair for people to be upset about multiple justices lying about Roe being settled law.
- egg1 4y agoSeriously, if just a fraction of "intellectuals" in other fields took some time to read the past 50-odd years worth of Supreme Court rulings, there wouldn't be all this pointless bickering over basic facts. If anything, the Warren/Burger courts were egregious in making up constitutional rights out of thin air based on their moral beliefs, and not the letter of the law. It's a shame that it takes a far-right Supreme Court for people to finally understand that it's Congress's job to pass new laws, not the judiciary branch.
- iostream24 4y agoYou clearly have a political bias.