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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
The comment about diversity was going to the point that while, as has been pointed out, a judge is there to judge and not be an emotional keyboard warrior, and therefore diversity is meaningless in practice of a justice.. that fact still has no bearing on the type of people we tend to move up in the name of diversity for diversities sake these days. It puts the wise latina as a drawback concept into perspective I thought.
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That's absolute bullshit though.
Each side strives to select and promote judges who are biased in their ideological favor.
Almost every judge who has been selected in the past 50 years has been FIRMLY on a partisan side. They've held positions in partisan orgs like Federalist society, NAACP, ACLU, in administrations Reps and Dems etc.
Those who were "surprises" have pissed off their selectors to no end, and been called their "greatest" mistakes.
But, further the constitution doesn't place ANY qualifications on selection to the SCOTUS -- you don't even have to be a fucking lawyer!
So, for people to talk about the judicial history, legal education etc. neccesary for a judge is not "strict adherence to the constitution," -- the kind they claim is necessary in order to be "unbiased" and "impartial."