Completed: 6/15/2023
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: My wife
Review:
This is a a pretty good overall look at the Supreme Court in its current configuration. Biskupic inserts herself into the description a couple of times which is mildly distracting, but serves to establish when she is not using second hand information. I honestly do not think of any of the justices as "leftist," "left," or even progressive. I think it is highly likely that, upon review, they will be found to be centrist. The whole court has been so powerfully pulled to the right, however, that centrists are now viewed as "left." I do not think that this bodes well for the court as a whole or for our government in general.
There is a great article here, but I will quote a bit from it because time is not friendly to links:
Democratic decisions require a body of factual evidence respected by all sides as true. Spiritual beliefs are compelling but they do not constitute empirical evidence. For this and other reasons, the abortion issue has created collateral arguments over church and state, and how we see each other as skeptics or believers.
OK, so that gives us a starting point when talking about most things, but especially abortion. It also explains the huge rift in the court right now. Nobody agrees on the facts of the case. If decisions are built based on different and conflicting facts it is impossible to move forward. When the chief justice talks about an individual praying alone on the 50 yard line despite pictures (in evidence and in the dissent) that show it was not someone praying alone, but a school leader praying amongst a large group of students complete disregard for facts is going to cripple the court and delegitimize the court. I would think that it would be essential to work from the facts at the highest level of justice (and, yes, this is a rather small example, but it is a critical hinge in the case referenced). That facts are simply ignored seems like a huge problem.
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