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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Would like to hear reactions to this, especially from SEC Chick. |
Just to argue with a heading, there are plenty of places for ideologues on Appellate Courts. Con Law is meant for ideologues. Who else is really going to dig deep on it. Much of this, as Not SEC Chick has already said, is about shutting a barn door that was opened a long time ago (probably about the time of the English Civil War, actually).
But I do wish expertise in specific areas of law beyond litigation and con law were valued. We could use some patent lawyers or tax lawyers or trade lawyers or actual corporate lawyers somewhere in the process hearing cases on taxes, trade, IP, or corporations. And, maybe, if we valued other stuff as much as we do the goring of constitutional oxes, it would lessen the degree of polarization just because the sole focus wouldn't be how issue X affects the litmus test concerns.
