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by rayiner 4736 days ago
There is nothing unbiased about having a judicial philosophy. "Bias" means you unfairly favor one party in a particular case over the other. Lack of bias does not require that you approach each case as a tabula rasa.

For example, I imagine lots of people on this website would be happy if a judge took an expansive view of the 4th amendment and asserted that was important for courts to strengthen 4th amendment protections. And that would be totally okay.