Reply #194: You're suggesting an either/or where none exists.

[Political Heretic]

You're exactly right, I don't understand any of those cases well enough to write a legal opinion as to the legal foundations, precedent and reasons of law for why each one should be decided in what my heart tells me is the appropriate way.

What we need is an appropriately experienced legal scholar who is also a humanist, someone with intelligence and common sense. But any notion that someone with no legal experience in an area as complicated as United States law is preferable to someone with such experience is simply ludicrous.

But hey, feel free to represent yourself in court in a capital trial and see how well just "knowing what's right" works out for you without knowing the law.