• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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    …Chief Justice Roberts’ oft-cited remark that the job of a Supreme Court justice is to “call balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.”

    The concept of identity-protective cognition helps explain Justice Scalia’s reflexive response to the question of whether fish is meat. Rather than dispassionately considering arguments rooted in biology and social practice, he jumped immediately to his group identity as a practicing Catholic. That identity led him to a clear answer that reflected his group’s moral values and shared commitments: Fish is not meat.

    That’s the setup and knockdown.

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      Justice Scalia

      Scalia has been dead for 7 years.

      All the current shit going on with the SC, and they pick this to write about?

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        It’s not about Scalia, it’s explaining the concept of justices making rulings based on their own identity and beliefs instead of facts and logic. To, you know, explain “All the current shit going on with the SC”.

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          Bribery, corrruption, and buying court decisions are the issues of today.

          Personal identity and beliefs don’t factor in when its already bought and paid for.

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          If they have to go back 7 years to being up an example, that would indicate it is very rare they use only their identity to determine rulings.

          I don’t doubt they often ignore science but this article indicates that is not the case. Is there not something recent they could refer to?

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        Clerks don’t talk about justices that are serving or about the court while the clerk is serving.