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No less than three of the current Supreme Court "Justices" were on Bush's legal team in Bush v. Gore.
Quite. And Bush v. Gore was in 2000; in 2001, just four months into office, Bush appointed Roberts to the DC appellate court, which was a very cushy appointment for a lawyer who'd never even been a judge.
Then, in 2005 when a Supreme Court seat finally opened up (Sandra Day O'Connor retired) Bush gave it to John Roberts. Surprise, surprise.
But wait, there's more. When Chief Justice William Rehnquist happened to die during Roberts' SCOTUS confirmation hearings, Bush gave Roberts the Chief Justice position.
In other words, in just four short years after Bush v. Gore, John Roberts rocketed from being nothing but a very well-connected lawyer straight up to Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court -- with nothing more than a brief stint as an appellate court judge in between on his resume, and he even got that with zero prior experience on the bench.
Thanks I hate it.
It's insane that in the US people know the political leaning of their supreme court justices. I don't know of any other country where that's the case.
In Germany, the judges of the Bundesverfassungsgericht might have political leanings too, but they can only have that position for up to 12 years (after which they can't be reelected) and have to abdicate when reaching the age of 68.
Yeah, I think it would take another tumultuous period for America before they could reform. Plenty of corruption in US and other places happen due to legal and logical sophistry.
That's quite interesting. Didn't know that wasn't the normal and now I have something to look into. It seems like the political leanings is the only thing that's ever talked about so will be interesting to see how they do it else where.
This is most Americans whenever this sort of thing comes up. Most Americans are very unaware of anything that happens beyond US borders, and assume that the way things happen in the US is normal worldwide. Meanwhile, most of the rest of the world is exposed to news and other media from the US as well as many other countries.
If you live in Australia you get British media, Aussie media and US media. If you live in the UK you get UK media, American media and European media.
Even in non-English countries, Hollywood media is everywhere, even if it's translated to other languages. Hollywood offers a distorted view of the US, but it's still media made with US ideas and biases, so it exposes the rest of the world to how the US thinks. The closest most Americans get to foreign media is an occasional break-out hit like Squid Game.
It's frustrating how isolated the US is, because decisions made in the US affect the whole world. But, when the people making those decisions don't know much of anything about the world outside the US, they often don't know that there's a better (or at least different) way.
Jesus Fucking Christ dude, I was talking about judges and you took this opportunity to rant for multiple paragraphs about media. It's the fucking internet, I can get news from multiple sources and not just "squid games". Commenter above talked about German judges political leanings, as I'm sure plenty of other countries do as well after researching further on it. UK and Australia are the outliers (with Canada, still looking into them) and have their own sets of problems, instead of talking about those you've decided to make an anti-US shitpost.
Looking into it further, seems like they all have their failings and political stances are included in all of them. Your high horse just has a nice robe thrown around it's wooden legs so no one can see what's going on. If you want to continue talking about "judges" I'm all for it, coming to see your wall of text about US media is just fucking sad. "now I have something to look into, will be interesting to see how they do it else where".