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Even when Palin agrees with liberals I disagree with her
Someone on E08 posted a transcript to an interview she did on Fox where she clarified her answers on the Supreme Court. I just found this hilarious.
This was the relevant portion
And then another one personally affected me, also. The Exxon
(INAUDIBLE) oil spill. Deciding what the oil company, as they decimated Alaska's coastline and much of our fisheries and much of our coastal communities livelihoods -- the people who live there. And they sided with Exxon on the punishment, the punitive damage that was to be awarded. Exxon won on that one in a sense that --
(the interviewer cuts her off here)
I had to do a law school project on that case, and I actually ended up siding with the conservatives. For the project, we got copies of the cert petitions and got in teams of 9 and role played the court, researching things, and writing a mini opinion. The result I came up with was the same one the conservatives did - a ruling for Exxon using very similar logic. I wrote the "dissent" for my team since we split 6-3 on it.
Palin really is my ideological opposite!
Re: Even when Palin agrees with liberals I disagree with her
I have to laugh because if people really understood the law, I think they would be shocked to discover how many times they agree with a position that is contrary to their political leanings. When I graduated from law school, I intended to be a civil rights attorney. I ended up being an employment discrimination attorney who defends corporations - and I truly believe I'm on the right side in 99% of my cases.
The law is a strange beast.
I intend to use this revelation that you are a friend of Big Oil against you if you ever run for political office. You have the option of giving me a cushy political appointment and/or hush money in order to avoid my spilling the beans.
In all seriousness, though, I don't know enough about the decision to make an educated analysis, but the stories of the residents of those coastal communities are just heartbreaking. Their lives have never returned to normal. I might go with Palin on this one.
LOL at TTT!
So you don't think I'm totally evil, I'll give you the case in a nutshell. Basically, Exxon won the jury trial, but the instructions that the judge gave the jury had a very out of whack way of determining damages. It resulted in a HUGE damages award. Exxon appealed to get the jury instruction thrown out.
Basically, it came down to whether the damages calculation used was unconstitutional in that it violated due process. Was it too unfair to Exxon?
I agreed that it was. But, to put my liberal hat back on, the case is still being decided. The Supreme Court chucked it back down to the 9th Circuit or the trial court to figure out what is a better way of determining damages.
While the amount paid out will probably be less, it will still likely be huge and, in theory, the end result could be the same amount of money. But, IMO, it wasn't about the end result, it was that the process for getting to that amount was flawed, and it sets a really dangerous precedent for the future.
this is why its best to be independent.