{"id":3326,"date":"2005-06-06T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/06\/courts-let-us-down-again\/"},"modified":"2005-06-06T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T19:02:19","slug":"courts-let-us-down-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/06\/courts-let-us-down-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts let us down again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA Washington State judge has <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=824084\">blown the election case<\/a>, sending it to the State Supreme Court (where nothing will happen), because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundpolitics.com\/archives\/004569.html#004569\">he can&#8217;t do arithmetic<\/a>, and the US Supreme Court has shown that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=823569\">currying favor with social conservatives<\/a> and big-government liberals is more important than getting the law right. It&#8217;s instructive for some of our readers to note that Scalia and Thomas came down on different sides of Gonzalez v. Raich (the federal marijuana case), and Thomas actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/archives\/021573.php#021573\">spanked Scalia&#8217;s butt<\/a> big time <a href=\"http:\/\/wid.ap.org\/scotus\/pdf\/03-1454P.ZD1.pdf\">in his dissent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington State judge has blown the election case, sending it to the State Supreme Court (where nothing will happen), because he can&#8217;t do arithmetic, and the US Supreme Court has shown that currying favor with social conservatives and big-government liberals is more important than getting the law right. It&#8217;s instructive for some of our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/06\/courts-let-us-down-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Courts let us down again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-RE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}