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Has nothing to do with judges, and the fact the US adopted English common law and evolved it's judiciary from there.
by indymike 4y ago
Has nothing to do with judges, and the fact the US adopted English common law and evolved it's judiciary from there.
- Retric 4y agoIn theory sure, in practice the legal system is run by people who somewhat regularly make technically incorrect decisions.
- zopa 4y agoTo be a little pedantic, individual states maintained systems based on English common law, rather than the US as a whole adopting it. There’s famously no such thing as Federal common law. This matters in Louisiana, which has a civil and not a common law system, dating from the French period.