Bad Justice: This Supreme Court Is Pathological

“Stop eatin’ that fudge
Cause here comes the judge”

The legislature should have an ideology; turning ideology into law is what legislatures are for.

But the courts should not.

The courts need to value logic and consistency over their personal ideologies when making decisions.

Because an important part of the courts’ job is find the places where the legislature’s output conflicts with itself and decide which bit overrides the others.

And this Supreme Court is just nakedly ideological.

The ruling on Colorado’s ban of “conversion therapy” is a particularly glaring example.

The Court blocked that ban, saying it infringes on medical practitioners 1st Amendment rights. But the Court has previously upheld laws that not only restrict speech in professional contexts, but actually compel professionals to make specific factually-incorrect statements.

And what was the difference between those laws?

Ideology.

The law they ruled against banned speech aimed at discouraging minority sexual expressions. This, they said, illegally suppressed protected speech by medical professionals.

The law they ruled for compelled speech aimed at discouraging pregnant women from getting abortions. This, they said, legally required medical professionals to present alternative views.

These two opinions cannot be resolved into a coherent concept of what the 1st Amendment actually means and therefore what the law actually is.

It is ruling for results, and blatantly ignores the law.

Both decisions are completely ideological and corrupt the fundamental concept of “law”, and both are grounds for impeaching and removing all of the justices who voted for them.