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This is crap. Rating judges is a horrible task because it's hard for the public to make any kind of objective decision on whether a judge is doing a good job. I
by qingcharles 6mo ago
This is crap. Rating judges is a horrible task because it's hard for the public to make any kind of objective decision on whether a judge is doing a good job. If you ask the public what they want from a judge, I would assume most would say: detain as many persons as possible, find as many people guilty as possible, and sentence them for the maximum possible time.
The reason judges go unopposed in elections, or get reelected until they die, is because the public doesn't have the knowledge to make informed decisions about these elections.
Not all judges are elected, of course.
- Chu4eeno 6mo agoWhy do you view the judges as some superhuman unassailable truth oracles? Your view is extremely dangerous, tbh., and rather anti-democratic.
- qingcharles 6mo agoWhere did you get that from my comment? I simply said it's an incredibly difficult task for the public to rate judges. Honestly, most judges are horrible. A vast majority are ex-prosecutors and are chronically biased against defendants' rights in criminal cases.