Should judges be "holistic" in their rulings?

Should they reach out beyond the issues presented before them and try and protect or heal a litigant, or look out for their interests beyond the case presented to them?

Honestly, this scares the crap out of me when we're talking about lifetime appointed judges.

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TexChik · F

Your are afraid of lifetime appointed judges UNLESS of course they are socialist appointed judges? Life time appointments have been around for several lifetimes now. Did they not teach you that In law-school? Or are you just figuring out why we voted for Trump? “!It’s the judges stupid” to paraphrase a Clinton slogan. You also failed to address what used to be called the ninth circus ( ninth circuit court of appeals) where they were life time lib appointed and ruled according to the democrat agenda of the day and legislated heavily from the bench . Trump corrected that too !

MistyCee

@TexChik

Chill. I'm afraid of "holistic" judging in general because I generally think that judges shouldn't be overreaching into the legislative realm, putting their fingers to heavily into elections, or trying to favor politically significant litigants over others.

I liked the idea of "judicial restraint," even before I went to a Catholic law school that beat the hell out of the Warren and Berger Courts over Roe and capital punishment.

Honestly, I think it's pretty hysterical when I get called out for being hypocritical for calling out judicial misconduct for overreach and get the ninth circuit thrown in my face while the eleventh circuit is in front of me.

Why was the 11th Circuit even created in the first place?

If you care to Google it, check out John Minor Wisdom and Alvin Rubin, among others.

All that crap aside, though, do you really think that judges should reach beyond the issues before them and try to help litigants "holistically?," potentially ignoring the crap presented to them and trying to help them out with other issues that might affect them?

TexChik · F

@MistyCee There is no restraint in government now whatsoever. There are no checks and balances when socialists control congress and the White House . Their corruption and endangerment of our national security is treasonous at best . Your complaints about conservatives courts blocking the socialist agenda seem very self serving . You never complained about it when when Obama was in office and he packed the 9th circuit with radical libs , but now it’s evil when conservative justices sit on the bench? ?