| ▲ | the_sleaze_ an hour ago | |
It's difficult to find anything except wildly biased news sources. After reading the article I know I should be upset about what the supreme court has done, and I should be fearful about what could possibly happen tomorrow because of it. But I don't have a very clear picture about what actually happened. How could one possibly build their own opinion one way or another from this piece? | ||
| ▲ | apparent an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
> How could one possibly build their own opinion one way or another from this piece? Having read coverage of it previously, just seeing the headline told me it was not likely to be a balanced/informative article. | ||
| ▲ | oldsklgdfth an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
IANAL, but pretty curious of SCOTUS. I just read a lot of the opinions. (I hate that the pdf does not have a table of contents). I've used the mental model of math and theorems to reason about it. In this model, all laws have to be consistent with base axioms from the constitution (and common law maybe?) I have come to realize that it is not a great analogy. The model breaks down when you realize that the law is not about "truth" (objectively true statements), but about "goodness" - what is right or wrong. That's the subjective component. Reading opinions help guide through the logic and what is thought of as good. Dissents are useful to glee into different perspectives. Some dissents are high tower rants though. Learn to discern the two. Take a look at Marbury v. Madison[0] for the background on how SCOTUS gained the power of judicial review, i.e. power to strike down laws as unconstitutional. Judicial review is not granted in the constitution. | ||