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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I don't think the question is whether or not you will accept it.
The question is whether or not you will believe it.
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If Cote is upheld, I will accept it. I will believe it is correct and sound legal reasoning as much as I believe the Citizen's United and the Bush v. Gore decisions are sound nonpartisan legal decisions, or that the Hobby Lobby case would have been decided as it was if the justices weren't driven by their personal Catholic religious views.
All that the current Supreme Court can ever expect from thinking citizens is acceptance. Belief that they are well thought-out, sound legal decisions that will be remembered 100 years from now for incisive legal reasoning is an unreasonable expectation and one that none but perhaps Scalia would entertain.