{"id":36432,"date":"2022-06-30T15:54:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36432"},"modified":"2022-06-30T15:54:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:54:53","slug":"word-of-the-day-802","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/30\/word-of-the-day-802\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dicta<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Dicta are judicial opinions expressed by the judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case. [The ‘Lectric Law Library<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “GOP-appointed justices make combating climate crisis much harder<\/em><\/a>,” Steve Benen, Maddowblog<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

In biting dicta, [Associated Justice] Kagan poked her conservative colleagues for their casual indifference to their purported principles. \u201cSome years ago, I remarked that \u2018[w]e\u2019re all textualists now.\u2019 It seems I was wrong,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThe current Court is textualist only when being so suits it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See here for my commentary<\/a> on how SCOTUS<\/strong> has achieved this depressing low in public opinion.<\/p>\n

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All I can add is that the conservative justices themselves have demonstrated the solution for the mistakes they’re making: overturning these problematic rulings<\/em>. The raw political power being practiced here by the conservative wing of the Court has a number of shortcomings in a democracy, while persuasive arguments do not suffer permanently from its inherent problems like raw political power.<\/p>\n

And apparently the extremist conservatives failed in persuasion, and so are moving on to the flawed raw political power phase of their failing political movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dicta: Dicta are judicial opinions expressed by the judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case. [The ‘Lectric Law Library] Noted in “GOP-appointed justices make combating climate crisis much harder,” Steve Benen, Maddowblog: In biting dicta, [Associated Justice] Kagan poked her conservative colleagues for their casual indifference \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36433,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432\/revisions\/36433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}