Even though I’m not American, I have definitely shared in the funk brought to the globe by Trump. I get particularly depressed when I think about SCOTUS - so much power held by so few over so many (and in a nation with so much power affecting so many).
And yet, there are cases like this one***** where the bedfellows seem strange indeed. Ginsburg and Gorsuch, Thomas and Kagan.
I know which side I’d be on, and it’s not the one I would have predicted. Reading the decision - the opinion and dissents - gives me a wee bit of happiness. Maybe ‘happiness’ is the wrong word. It’s just something positive for a change, or what I consider to be positive: that there can be genuinely non-partisan issues and deliberation. I doubt I am alone here in feeling at times as if I am drowning in an uninterrupted wave of depressing political news. This case seems removed from the flood and I find it soothing.
(*the case itself has to do with ‘substantial evidence’ in government & administrative law and the rules governing its content, credibility, and application.)