Open Thread

OK- so now my brand new Wacom drawing tablet is useless because certain critters took the pen. Forget everything I said about loving cats, liking cats, rescuing cats- everything.

dona, the last place I lived was walking distance to Wrigley Field.

Probably the wine, M4L.

Cobble, sorry, I know you are a died-in-the-wool Brooklyn girl and never could root for the Yankees.

“jessi- cam you imagine what this country would be like if there were no 9 justices constantly looking at and protecting the Constitution? I don’t always agree with what they do- politics have really poisoned the whole system, imo, but what’s the alternative? No body of law is closed to interpretation, except by people who prefer tyranny over freedom. Exactly why religions must stay out of politics.”

I’ve got no problem with the Supreme Court as an institution. It’s very interesting to think about the ways we as humans choose to order and police ourselves.

On a side note, in 200 years, or whatever, it’s gonna be really annoying to do legal research and stuff – so much to comb through already.

slopey- when you come back- but wouldn’t a dispute resolution still mean the judge has to decide how to apply the law? Isn’t that actually interpreting the law on some level? Like when you said, “what is a murder?” Doesn’t the law have a basic meaning, but the judge decides if it is applicable in a particular case?

And precedents are not necessarily ironclad, right? I mean, they are set in specific cases but can’t they be changed if in a new case they are argued again? Or is a precedent then considered a law?