2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Jonathan Turley: Supreme Court Should Have 19 Members [View all]Hippo_Tron
(25,453 posts)Have you ever read a Supreme Court opinion? They don't just decide these cases based on what they think is right and wrong. There's a huge amount of legal reasoning that goes into deciding which provisions to strike and which ones to keep. The conclusions that Justice Scalia comes to via legal reasoning are substantially different than the conclusions that Justice Ginsburg does. But that reasoning in both cases is far more complex than "I agree with this law or I disagree with this law", which is how political bodies make law, not how courts
rule on its constitutionality.
Law is an incredibly complex subject. That's why we require lawyers to go to school for three years and pass the bar exam before they can practice it. And judges usually have to practice it for many many years before they can become judges.