My initial anti-judicialist radicalization came when I realized that competing claims about how to manage fire risk in my community were to be decided not by anyone with technical expertise, but by a randomly selected Alameda County judge www.berkeleyside.org/2023/06/14/u...
It’s really grating how the judicial establishment expects everyone to ooh and aah at fancy lawyer reasoning, to the point of telling you the plain text of the 14th amendment doesn’t say what it says, but also refuses to defer to the expertise of any other field of human learning
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![UC Berkeley is free to clear dozens of acres of trees for a fire break and three fire hazard reduction projects after an appeals court reversed a trial court ruling blocking the plan. Much of the wildfire protection work, funded by a state grant, overlaps where the university wanted to clear trees in 2013 before a different lawsuit prevented them from doing so. [the article is from 2023]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6t3kp4tpjzdfjc5dhtpudttm/bafkreiabc4f5h7uhk4piq5uqbz45kfmb6pqfkf7a7mbtc2dm452r2avf2a@jpeg)
