Pardon the intrusion?
“… high court not just indifferent to facts but contemptuous of them.”
“Facts are stubborn things. Whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact…”
John Adams, 1770. Prosecutor at a murder trial of Redcoats who fired into a crowd at the Boston Tea Party, before a judge sworn to serve the English King.
