Only a fool overlooks the fact that along with the document itself and the 25 ammendments you have 200 years of case law. If you dont understand the history, the case law, etc. you are left blowing in the wind by input you receive, desired or not, from the other eight justices and your own clerks. If you dont have a judicial philosophy and no knowledege of case law, you are ignorant and have no more right to be on the court than a lawyer has to perform heart surgery. Crawl back in your buggy, AmishDude, this is the real world.
Insulting. Your condescension only more fully fans the fires of perceived "elitism."
Plus you make FR look bad.
Then apparently you have no right to criticize the court, is that it?
I guess that means Kelo was A-OK because 5 out of 9 supergeniouses said it was.
And Roe.
And Plessy.
Well, maybe Plessy then, but not later, when the case law made it OK. Or maybe not. Who can tell?
And which case law? There are hundreds of thousands of cases in the US. Do we take the good ones or the bad ones? Are 9th circuit cases OK, or do we throw them out in favor of the wisdom of Judge Greer?