Gerrymandering: Another Good Supreme Court Decision

How else is the position filled?Rock-paper-scissors?

So you're saying they use the political appointment option.Okay.Edited by Jon, : No reason given.

At this point I have no idea what the hell you mean by 'politics' because in every sane understanding of the idea 'institutions which are part of the public administration' are definitely political.

I think you should review the definition of 'politics', because I have no idea where you're drawing the line.If you only mean to say that the system doesn't tend to play the party game, you could have just said thatEdited by Jon, : No reason given.

Well, they're the same thing, so...

No, because they aren't involved in running the government.Surely you have a dictionary sitting around somewhere, or, you know, just speak English. Since the 'problem' was one you created by trying to imply my reckoning classifies air traffic controllers as politicians, no, I see no problem with my reasoning.

My point is that judges (the real ones, not the ones who judge talent shows) are political officials.The world where we can separate off a portion of the government and pretend it isn't part of the government is the world where pigs fly on invisible pink unicorns.The UK has a different system of filling its political positions than the US, but that doesn't mean that the positions or the process of filling them are any less political.Really, this shouldn't even be an argument. Why vimesey is so opposed to applying the term 'political' to his judges just baffles the hell out of me.

Sure; and after we agreed that that was the way in which vimesey was using the term (see Message 14), we were both ready to drop the issue.That Dr Adequate, Theodoric, Tangle, and now you want to start a new argument has no bearing on the first discussion, which was settled several posts ago.

Really?How do they enforce their judgements then?

Why does the 'executive branch' (which is just a fancy way of saying 'the people with the guns') do what the judiciary says?And what do we call it when they don't?