alt Hacker NewsIt is not the reader's fault if the article is unreadable in the first place.
Not to mention that asking help to explain a text is extremely common. I can read English, but I have never read a US supreme court ruling. There are much better ways for me to understand those rulings to me as a non-lawyer.
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turtlesdown11 • yesterday at 10:05 PM
> I can read English, but I have never read a US supreme court ruling. There are much better ways for me to understand those rulings to me as a non-lawyer.
Having admitted to never having read a SCOTUS ruling, how can you then proclaim there are better ways for you to understand? How could you possibly make that assertion if you've never read a SCOTUS ruling?
Many SCOTUS opinions, especially the major ones, are very readable! The justices and clerks are excellent writers.
The most publicly notable cases (on things like abortion, gerrymandering, gun control, etc.) aren’t so tied down in complex precedent or laws the average person is unfamiliar with.
Although, even some of those (like, for me, issues around Native American sovereignty or maritime law) are quite readable as well.