Does this happen in the US? praise and scorn - caricature - of the SCOTUS justices.
In fairness to SCOTUS, whichever side they fall on, they don't say stupid s***. That Githu interpretation from 2013 would have never seen the light of day. Dont get me started on British courts..... I think the problem is when courts do things you don't just consider "wrong" but dumb. Makes you think they must be corrupt.
SCOTUS ... there is a BIG ideological divide. Even now with Trump guy Gorsuch it is 5-4 conservative. Matters landing there are predictable I think that is just sad. I am ignorant of the 10yo SCUK.
Our SCOK and independent judiciary is just 7 years old. Like the counties. Hopefully they will develop jurisprudence with time and win the confidence of the public. I would never want predictability or political bias in this top court.
Yes, that's true about SCOTUS and like any human institution, they've made their fair share of pretty bad calls in the past. With our tribalism, we are not in danger of developing those ideological splits just yet.
By the way, the British court is very old, older than SCOTUS and I believe any other courts in the commonwealth. Yes I know it was redesigned SCUK just the other day but we spent years reading about "the House of Lords" and its Lords and their landmark decisions and I'm sure kids in law school still do as they do all over the commonwealth. It was far more influential than SCOTUS outside the U.S..