NightlyPoe said:
collint0101 said:
Are you saying that we should side with companies that put profit over everything else instead of the organization that actually has a reason to give a damn about the environment
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What I am saying is that a judge should never make a ruling based simply on whose name they like better when they look at the docket.
So I again ask you to cite a decision of Kavanaugh's and explain why that decision is in error. If you cannot, then you have no grounds to complain about his rulings.
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Why should he bother? You'd just say you agree with Kavanaugh. I sincerely doubt you'd accept it if he listed a specific "this entity v this entity" case and what it was about and why he disagreed, and while I'm sure you'll claim that you'll play fair, it'd still be a waste of time. He shouldn't have to have a damn law degree so as to be able to make a detailed argument against a specific decision, he should just be able to know that in general, it seems Kavanaugh frequently rules in favor of large corporations over environmental organizations, and be able to suspect a bias there. You can make arguments for and against large corporations and have them make enough sense that it doesn't just look like the judges wrote "because we say so" as the reasoning. That's why we have the nomination process in the first place. You think the Republicans know in detail every court case he's done? Of course they don't! They know he's decided the way they want, and that's all they care about. So long as a judge has the credentials and recommendations to suggest he writes strong, sound opinions in his rulings, it's easy to argue that he's "qualified". There are tons of liberal judges one could say that about too that they "never make rulings based simply on whose name they like better" yet you'd probably call out some pro-environment decision and call it wrong just as collin would call out an anti-environment decision and call it wrong. Being able to name drop cases and why you disagree with them is not a requirement for being against a particular judge. A person can easily be aware that a judge's decisions tend to lean a certain way and not like the bias they see. That is grounds enough. If choosing a judge were entirely about the quality of the reasoning they use when writing the opinions in their rulings, the President wouldn't choose judges, and the Senate would have no say. It would be an independent legal organization's duty to determine who to nominate. It might honestly be better that way, I don't know.