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You really have that much faith in the US justice system that you don’t believe that partisan judges make judgements all of the time based on their belief system?

Do you want to build a business based on the whims of a judge when you thought that you were following the law?



"This doing of something about disputes, this doing of it reasonably, is the business of the law. And the people who have the doing of it in charge, whether they be judges or sheriffs or clerks or jailers or lawyers, are officials of the law. What these officials do about disputes is, to my mind, the law itself. ... And rules, in all of this, are important to you so far as they help you see or predict what judges will do or so far as they help you to get judges to do something. That is their importance. That is all their importance, except as pretty playthings."

Also see: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-07/the-fe...

...in which Matt Levine juxtaposes the concepts of going by rules versus what he calls "legal realism".




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