If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.
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Fairness is what justice really is.
Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.
Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.
That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.
Justice is truth in action.
The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.
The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.