Kasz216 said:
Eh, even the judges haven't that big a deal... what was the big decision these last 8 years? The Handgun thing? Well that and the partial birth abortion thing, which was really weird considering the abortion ruling... Supreme Court judges make me sad as they rarely seem to interpret the law anymore, just pick what side they like and say the law says that.
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I am just talking about long-term in terms of the justices. But you're right that nothing too major has changed as of now, and probably won't now that Obama was elected. Hell, even in South Dakota they voted down the ban on abortion that included the exceptions of rape and incest.
Judges often get a bad name, and the Supreme Court justices often have to make some of the most difficult judicial decisions out of anyone in the country in either new areas of law or areas of law that have drastically changed over time. There are some judges who legislate from the bench, but that term is thrown around like its going out of style.
And Congress and different states can make just plain ambiguous laws sometimes, or laws that completely miss a new problem that has come up. So judges have to fill in the gaps more times than you would think, not to mention overthrowing older common law that has simply grown outdated with the times or which was completely unsound to begin with.
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