NO. The entire point of "Lifetime" appointments was to make the court incorruptible, IT DID NOT WORK, so 18 years is ENTIRELY too long for the same people to define justice in a nation. The court should rotate every 4 years and to even be considered for appointment there should be prerequisites and character investigations and background checks and public hearings out the ass!
no, 4 would make every nomination way more charged politically so you could get a really shitty person in for just 4 years to fick shit up, then they could leave
Electing judges is the absolute worst idea. The public as a whole has absolutely no idea what separates a good judge from a bad judge. Especially an appellate judge like SCOTUS.
What can be less politically motivated than holding a people's vote. Technically it already is as the house technically is representing its constituents. There should maybe be a procedure to contest supreme court decisions to a referendum.
You can usually choose from more than one school. If you can't then you're in a small community anyway. We're talking federal supreme court justices here.
Impossible to not be politically charged when they need to be nominated by a politician.
If only we could have a system where every president gets to appoint two nominees per term, and those candidates serve for a fixed term-- exactly what this proposal includes. This is a really, really smart plan. No system is perfect, but this is by far the best proposal that I have seen.
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u/PollutionPatient8261 Aug 29 '26
NO. The entire point of "Lifetime" appointments was to make the court incorruptible, IT DID NOT WORK, so 18 years is ENTIRELY too long for the same people to define justice in a nation. The court should rotate every 4 years and to even be considered for appointment there should be prerequisites and character investigations and background checks and public hearings out the ass!