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Originally Posted by Mick
Guess which two now Supreme Court Justices that were on President George W. Bush's legal team during the Al Gore fight in 2000?
Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Amy Coney Barratt.
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Even senior British judges have political friends and former political activities in their pasts. The nature of the British media and our view of the judiciary is such that these considerations don’t really get an airing.
I think a lot of people misunderstand the significance of an individual US Supreme Court judge’s political sympathies. Whether they err to the conservative or the liberal/progressive side will come out in the way they interpret legal questions against the constitution. It doesn’t mean they’re going to make nakedly political judgments that result in overturning the prospective presidency of a man who secured five million more votes than his opponent. Yes, these people are conservative leaning, but they take the job because they believe in the stability of the USA’s constitutional democracy and they are well aware of the long-term damage they would cause by interfering in elections.
For them to set aside enough votes to materially affect the outcome will require far more than being friends with a former republican president. It will require massive evidence of systematic ballot rigging, of the sort that simply did not happen.