Didn’t Ayn Rand say something relevant here?
When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, your nation is doomed......
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Case law is becoming an ever more unreliable basis for future determinations of either fairness or justice.
Because judicial courts do not determine “right” or “wrong”, they only designate what is either legal or illegal.
Case law, based on the old English law code, preceded the application of the standards of the US Constitution, and the framework of the Declaration of Independence. It has evolved since then to cover situations that may only exist in a certain set of circumstances, and in a given time period. As a result, case law has many contradictions and outright opposing precedents, which in the end, only succeed in enriching the legal profession.
And does not do a thing for their public perception.