James Finn
Jan 29, 2022

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I'm sorry, but your position doesn't make sense. Many judicial standards are based on judging facts through "a totality of a circumstances." Judicial opinions constantly use language like, "what a reasonable person in the community would hold."

When the people doing the judging of what is reasonable are overwhelmingly extremely conservative Catholic white men, outcomes are obviously going to be skewed.

One of the highest principles of the law is representation. Our jury system is based on that, and the idea of that judges interpret law through the lens of community standards is based on that.

Our system of jurisprudence could not function without basic representation.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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