| HappySqurriel said: The cause of the civil war is not something that can adequately be handled on a web forum because there were several social, economic and political differences between the northern and southern states that were influences/causes of the war; and slavery was more of a cross-cutting concern in all of these areas, but it can not really be called the primary or only cause of the civil war.
Back on topic though, the biggest issue I see with this nominee is that he is an academic with no real experience. Academics are (generally speaking) given the opportunity to only deal with theoretical-ideals in their field, and there is a general disconnect between how they think things work and reality. A non-political example of what I mean by this is that I worked with an individual who received their PHD in Computer Science and taught while doing research for 5 years and, while he was brilliant at solving complicated problems, his code was the least reliable, maintainable and user-friendly code we had ever seen. The reason for this is simple, these are not considerations when developing an application in a research setting; and the 9 years he had after getting his Bachelors degree the typical developer who was working would become fairly decent at dealing with these concerns. Why this is a problem with a Supreme Court justice is that he is supposed to make the ruling which sets precedence and can not be over-turned by a higher court (because there is no higher court), and without the experience of being a judge at a lower court it is likely that an academic will make judgements based on ideals rather than reality; and the resulting judgement will be wrong. |
Liu is a radical . He believes the root of law is social equality not Justice and Freedoms. Worse yet he believes that the government has the right to force it on everyone by pretty much any means, and that the government right to do so is suprior to anything in the constitution.
