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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
No, of course not. I just think that if we're all going to talk about a decision where the conservatives on the Court threw statutory interpretation out the window in order to vindicate a conservative belief that didn't exist five years ago, in interpreting a statute that has been around for many, many decades, getting those facts wrong is not the biggest issue to talk about.
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There are two issues that both are serious and systemic in the court.
One is that the conservative side is pretty much completely without shame. It's pure outcome oriented jurisprudence.
Another is that just about all the justices are really bad at facts and generally pretty mediocre at understanding history, science, economics, or anything else other than law, and these flaws cross the ideological divide and result in bad decisions on both sides. Sotomoyer's misstatement of facts was no better or no worse than Gorsuch's in that, and the fact that both of them screwed up so badly on facts they'd been heavily briefed on shows how endemic the problem is.
