The Inherent Unfairness of an Immigration Provision in the Violence Against Women Act
By Dan Cadman on September 20, 2018
I was reading an article in National Review by Andrew McCarthy and came upon this statement, which I find to be both self-evident and at the same time profound:
n our adversary system, we do not submit disputes to a team of independent expert investigators. We have advocates for each side — partisans — make the case as well as it can be made from their side's perspective, and we let the other side attack with all its partisan might. We allow each side to examine the other's witnesses. Based on this often heated clash, we expect that members of the public will be able to figure out what information is reliable, what is nonsense, and what the truth is. That is the process we use for deciding life-and-death criminal sentences, as well as civil judgments that can be financially ruinous. We have used it for centuries because it works.
https://cis.org/Cadman/Inherent-Unfairness-Immigration-Provision-Violence-Against-Women-Act
