Actually?
Judges have ALWAYS been political applying the law….
Reporters now write their stories that involve judge’s referenced with who appointed the federal judge making a decision that might be against/for the Trump admin, thus adding politics to the legal ruling….
Post Trump election?
Federal judges appointed by President Obama , Bush and even Trump have increasingly ruled against act’s by the Trump admin that do NOT conform to the law or prior wishes of Congress….
Those media stories tend to report who appointed the judge….
During the Obama admin efforts to stop his admin’s policies where counter by Southern right leaning Attorney General’s who sought ruling in Southern Federal courts that believed would rule in their favor…
The idea that the courts and judges are NEUTRAL in applying the law is of course simply a fallacy …
Politics , as we saw in the appointment and confirmation of Supreme Court judges is ALWAYS just below the surface….
Of course Judges in the end are just human beings working a job, eh?
And ALL of us ARE political in one way or another…
The prominent democra- tic theorist, Robert Dahl, argued decades ago that the courts were not truly independent but would defer to the majoritari- an will on all salient issues.1 More recently, those studying the court propounded something they called the “attitudinal model,” which maintained that judges decided cases according to their ideological or political objectives, rather than neutral principles.2 More recently, political scientists have combined the models and argued that judges make political decisions within the constraints imposed by the legislative and executive branches.3
The political scientists support their claims with a formida- ble body of research. Most law professors are unfamiliar with their data, but there are literally scores of studies demonstrating that a federal judge’s decisions can be predicted by know- ing the party of his or her appointing president. Peretti reviews this research, noting that politics is central to the selection of federal judges and that their decisions on the bench likewise correspond with politics (in the ideological sense, not the party loyalty sense). She views the Court as a representative body, in a sense. Judges are selected indirectly (much like the U.S. Senate used to be) and have relatively slow turnover, at least on the Supreme Court. Hence, the Court’s makeup and its decisions respond to political trends but more slowly than do the other branches….
Note…
The US Constitution was made up and signed off by politicians…Not Lawyers…
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