{"id":130959,"date":"2016-06-29T23:33:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T23:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/the-predictable-partisanship-of-the-supreme-court.html"},"modified":"2016-06-29T23:33:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T23:33:59","slug":"the-predictable-partisanship-of-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/the-predictable-partisanship-of-the-supreme-court.html","title":{"rendered":"The Predictable Partisanship of the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wonder to what extent the shift to being all jurists, all the time, is part of the predictability and partisan divides within SCOTUS. Back in an era when many of the appointees were former Senators, Governors, Attorneys General, or even Presidents, a somewhat more pragmatic approach could be taken, leading to opinions based less on personal legalistic theories and philosophy than on workability: "How will this decision work in real life for the nation, executives, and legislators?"<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +The Atlantic<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A Tragic Moment for the Supreme Court http:\/\/trib.al\/LE6TNGY<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nYale Professor Stephen Carter Argues That It’s a Tragic Moment for the Supreme Court – The Atlantic<\/a><\/span>
\nYale law professor Stephen L. Carter laments the recent string of divided decisions and urges a return to efforts to reach consensus, or near consensus, about the Constitution.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I wonder to what extent the shift to being all jurists, all the time, is part of the predictability and partisan divides within SCOTUS. Back in an era when many of the appointees were former Senators, Governors, Attorneys General, or even Presidents, a somewhat more pragmatic approach could be taken, leading to opinions based less … Continue reading “The Predictable Partisanship of the Supreme Court”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130820,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/07\/why-whomever-ends-up-on-the-supreme-court-wont-affect-guns.html","url_meta":{"origin":130959,"position":0},"title":"Why whomever ends up on the Supreme Court won't affect guns","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Jun-16 11:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"TL;DR: A conservative wouldn't change the balance Scalia provided, and a liberal wouild recognize that Heller hasn't actually changed things all that much (but that overturning it might lead to proposals for a beefed-up constitutional amendment that would). 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