Originally Posted by Ahldagor (Post 2792051)

Order in what sense?

Originally Posted by loramin (Post 2792020)

Right, well obviously we have had this whole "President nominates a potential justice" and "Senate confirms the potential justice" system since 1916 (well actually since well before then, but the actual confirmation hearings didn't start until then; before confirmation was a simple yes/no vote).

It's preserved the "principles of decency and fairness" from back then until now (despite Republicans recently undoing some of the very rules that used to be in effect to help ensure those principles). Nothing about Kav's experience suggests that it's stopped working. Even if he'd gotten a real investigation, and it had found something that lead to him not getting confirmed, there'd still be nothing.

But look, those principles, and the legal concept of "due process", are not the same thing. Getting confirmed by a publicly elected body is not the same thing as going into a court room, even though the two have similarities. Eating and drinking are similar too, but if I talk about drinking a hamburger (when my mouth isn't wired shut) you're going to look at me funny.

Originally Posted by maskedmelon (Post 2792054)

the antagonist of chaos.

Originally Posted by Ahldagor (Post 2792219)

Lol. Duality potential, or are you deadset on binary stagnation?

Originally Posted by maskedmelon (Post 2792229)

it's about balance you goober and no, that doesn't result in stagnation. rather than spoil it for you by tellin ya why thoughts, i'll let you consider it yourself.

Originally Posted by loramin (Post 2791981)

My "semantic bullshit" just shows I understand a fundamental concept of the law works in our country and you don't.

And as for Kanin, there's this thing called "cherry-picking". It's when you fixate on a single data point that proves whatever it is you want to believe, and ignore all the other data points that don't fit your beliefs.