{"id":177,"date":"2011-11-01T12:39:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T12:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=177"},"modified":"2011-11-01T12:39:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T12:39:06","slug":"i-am-curious-is-it-only-the-conservative-justices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/11\/01\/i-am-curious-is-it-only-the-conservative-justices\/","title":{"rendered":"I am curious, is it only the conservative justices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to clean up the Supreme Court<br \/>\nAs three justices ignore possible conflicts of interest, Congress needs to act<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/11\/01\/time_to_clean_up_the_supreme_court\/singleton\/\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/11\/01\/time_to_clean_up_the_supreme_court\/singleton\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of the stuff I read at Salon appears to be objective, though there is a clear progressive slant.\u00a0 It is curious, though, that this article only mentions possible (highly likely in my mind, I don&#8217;t want to take away from the article) conflicts of interest with conservative justices.\u00a0 While there are justices that appear to work diligently to keep themselves from controversy, I find it hard to believe that the liberal justices have never done anything that ought be called into question.\u00a0 Granted Kagan hasn&#8217;t been around that long (and did recuse herself from many initial cases), but she seems quite ripe for conflicts of interest (based on what I know about Sotomayor she seems practiced in at least providing the illusion of no conflicts).  Surely, at least in the guise of objectivity, couldn&#8217;t the author at least mention some potential conflicts with the more liberal members?<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, the content of the article, particularly wrt Thomas, seems quite damning and clearly fertile ground for conflicts of interest (actual as well as impressioned).\u00a0 I believe that anyone who is above the law is wrong and the wrong increases geometrically as the power of the individual increases.\u00a0 I believe people in powerful positions must be held to higher standards (and subject to stricter punishments!), not the other way around as is so prevalent in our oligarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to clean up the Supreme Court As three justices ignore possible conflicts of interest, Congress needs to act http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/11\/01\/time_to_clean_up_the_supreme_court\/singleton\/ Most of the stuff I read at Salon appears to be objective, though there is a clear progressive slant.\u00a0 It is curious, though, that this article only mentions possible (highly likely in my mind, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/11\/01\/i-am-curious-is-it-only-the-conservative-justices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I am curious, is it only the conservative justices?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}