Here Comes the Judge

A judge is a person who renders honest decisions, not decisions based on bias or prejudgment.  Keeping an open mind may be the most important and most difficult of judicial tasks.

Patience, dignity, fairness, impartiality, honest

What judges are NOT supposed to do is impose in their decision making.

The judges that sit on this current US Supreme Court are imposing.  In their writings and speeches, they are making it clear where their prejudgment is on various issues and they bring those prejudgments to the cases brought before them.   They are imposing not judging. They are not open minded.   The conservative wing of this Supreme Court bring their preconceived beliefs and renders their judgement based on those preconceptions.  They impose through the vail of legal jargon.  The conservative wing hides behind the use of legalese and obscure references to previous case law and perceived technicalities of the US Constitution.  What is disturbing about this is they are able to pick and choose language which serves their purpose.  The US Constitution, although relevant, was also written in 1787.  A lot has changed in the ensuing 237 years.  The interpretation of the Constitution serves a similar purpose as strict adherence to the Bible.  A document that was written in many parts almost a century after the death of its principal character.  These documents can be manipulated to support many sides to the same question.

 Alito – Thomas – Gorsuch – Barret – Kavanaugh - Roberts use the obscure and complicated to convince us of their brilliant legal minds.  It took Alito 213 pages trying to convince us that Roe was an imposed doctrine when in fact he and his colleagues were doing the imposing. They were legislating through a morass tangled language and case reference.  The Roe decision was specifically based on a woman’s right to govern her own body.

The sad result—— the highest court has developed as a legislative body with preconceived decisions on major principles of this country. 

 Most importantly these justices are not rendering decisions based on impartial thinking.  They bring their belief system to the court and rule based on that belief system.  They are neither open minded nor impartial – a basic tenant of judging.  There is no mystery about their decisions.

The judicial branch is not a legislative branch.  This court is legislating and legislating in a way that is not in accordance to the believe system of the country as numerous polls and studies have shown. 

No wonder they are an untrustworthy organization.