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by TaylorAlexander 739 days ago
Yeah there’s a lot of people in this thread assuming that the role of the Supreme Court is to be as neutral as possible and make informed judgements based on careful reading of the law. But if you take the view that “the purpose of a system is what it does” then that’s not the purpose of the Supreme Court at all. What it actually does and the role it serves is hard to describe for me as a lay person, but it’s clear it’s not there to actually serve justice on the traditional sense.