[truthguy]

Take a look at the dissents by Chief Justice Abrahamson and Justice Crooks. Very unprofessional in that they engage in petty, almost personal insults.

Not surprised. I don't even need to know who the dissenting judges are. I can tell that they are political animals. When I took Civics way back in high school and then later in college we were taught that Appellate Judges were not supposed to let their political leanings affect their decisions. What a joke that is. With the US Supreme Court I can predict with a high degree of certainty which judges are going to go which way on a given issue. Just tell me the issue and the vote count and I can tell you which way the judges are gonna go. It's not 100% but I can get into the 90s. And I have no legal background. It's not supposed to be that way, but judges have become political animals. Maybe they always were.

[pogo101]

There was a time when a left liberal, appointed to the bench, understood that not all of his desired (liberal) policy results could legitimately be achieved under existing law. But can you name any prominent jurists known pre-appointment as liberals, who went on to disappoint their liberal appont-ers?

Last one I can think of was Felix Frankfurter. But nowadays? Whatever liberal judges personally want, gosh, it turns out they’ll say the Constitution already requires it. What a coincidence!