difference because the court now is essentially six hard . conservatives- and three liberals it s a question of whether it becomes seven hard - conservatives and two liberals, and liberal is not political - i mean, this isjust a way of interpreting the law. l it s not. it s, yeah yeah, it s not i a political thing. it s become terriblyj politicised, though. but the other thing is, steve, that s most interesting to an outsider, i heard an american network on thursday night debating, well, it s going to be a black woman this time becausejoe biden has said that, and maybe it should be a hispanic man or woman the time after that there s a sense in which almost the culture wars that they are supposed to try and stay above are being translated onto the court itself. well, is it? i mean, this term culture wars is pretty imprecise, it seems to me. i mean, president trump used patronage to put in all kinds of people who he felt reflected his kind of views and i imagine biden will us
conservatives and three j liberals it s a question of whether it becomes seven hard conservatives and two l liberals, and liberal is not political - i mean, this isjust a way of interpreting the law. l it s not. it s, yeah yeah, it s not a political thing. i it s become terriblyj politicised, though. but the other thing is, steve, that s most interesting to an outsider, i heard an american network on thursday night debating, well, it s going to be a black woman this time becausejoe biden has said that, and maybe it should be a hispanic man or woman the time after that there s a sense in which almost the culture wars that they are supposed to try and stay above are being translated onto the court itself. well, is it? i mean, this term culture wars is pretty imprecise, it seems to me. i mean, president trump used patronage to put in all kinds of people who he felt reflected his kind of views and i imagine biden will use this space to do the same. now, there might be some
i mean, this isjust a way of interpreting the law. l it s not. it s, yeah yeah, it s not a political thing. i it s become terriblyj politicised, though. but the other thing is, steve, that s most interesting to an outsider, i heard an american network on thursday night debating, well, it s going to be a black woman this time becausejoe biden has said that, and maybe it should be a hispanic man or woman the time after that there s a sense in which almost the culture wars that they are supposed to try and stay above are being translated onto the court itself. well, is it? i mean, this term culture wars is pretty imprecise, it seems to me. i mean, president trump used patronage to put in all kinds of people who he felt reflected his kind of views and i imagine biden will use this space to do the same. now, there might be some tokenism in it in terms of whether it s hispanic or whatever but presumably, whoever gets appointed