blind justice

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Dictionary meaning

the ideal of a legal system that applies the law impartially and without regard to the identity, social status, wealth, race, or political connections of the parties before it, treating all individuals as formally equal under the law and making decisions based solely on evidence and legal principle rather than on considerations of who the litigants are; the image of Justice blindfolded while holding her scales and sword has been the dominant visual symbol of this ideal since the late Renaissance, representing the aspiration that law should operate as an objective and impersonal mechanism of dispute resolution insulated from the biases and partial interests that characterise politics and social life