Okay-- here's one idea floated by somebody smarter than I-- restructure the federal court system.
The circuit (appeals) courts' workloads are lopsided-- some have a whole lot more work than others, and there are only nine of them, each attended by one SC justice (they used to ride their "circuit," hence the name).
Okay-- here's one idea floated by somebody smarter than I-- restructure the federal court system.
The circuit (appeals) courts' workloads are lopsided-- some have a whole lot more work than others, and there are only nine of them, each attended by one SC justice (they used to ride their "circuit," hence the name).
Sooooooo-- even out the loads by creating four more circuits-- all the judges will thank us for that!
Of course, this will call for FOUR MORE JUSTICES, so we add four to the court. At the same time, we set TERM LIMITS for all new judges. The Federalist Society will not thank us for this.
As of course, this would require more money, the idea will get shot down, because we are doing nothing about campaign finance reform. Doesn't anybody here want that to happen?
Well, what other options for allocation are there? I can see difficulties with any of them. I think we have to count on term limits to weed out the bad appointments, whether they be by Congressional logrolling, Presidential fiat or Charles Koch manipulations, etc. What do you think might be the best sort of method of identifying and appointing them?
As both the Supreme Court and the Senate were created by the Founding Fathers to severely damp the democratic impulse, at best we can only avoid fighting for the perfect and thereby killing the imperfect but sometimes workable (like the Warren Court).
Okay-- here's one idea floated by somebody smarter than I-- restructure the federal court system.
The circuit (appeals) courts' workloads are lopsided-- some have a whole lot more work than others, and there are only nine of them, each attended by one SC justice (they used to ride their "circuit," hence the name).
Sooooooo-- even out the loads by creating four more circuits-- all the judges will thank us for that!
Of course, this will call for FOUR MORE JUSTICES, so we add four to the court. At the same time, we set TERM LIMITS for all new judges. The Federalist Society will not thank us for this.
As of course, this would require more money, the idea will get shot down, because we are doing nothing about campaign finance reform. Doesn't anybody here want that to happen?
Well, I thought it would be worth a try.....
OF course you can do this but this doesn't mean you will have a FAIR court?
The Supreme Court should NOT be allocated by politicians.
Well, what other options for allocation are there? I can see difficulties with any of them. I think we have to count on term limits to weed out the bad appointments, whether they be by Congressional logrolling, Presidential fiat or Charles Koch manipulations, etc. What do you think might be the best sort of method of identifying and appointing them?
As both the Supreme Court and the Senate were created by the Founding Fathers to severely damp the democratic impulse, at best we can only avoid fighting for the perfect and thereby killing the imperfect but sometimes workable (like the Warren Court).
I love it!
The "Like-O-Meter" will short-circuit on this one.
Here! Here! A definite YES for campaign finance reform. (And let's overturn the ruling on the Citizens United case, for good measure.)