Let me repeat: how justices *leave* the court is not the problem. The problem is how they *get on* the court.
If we do not reform the extremely partisan process of judicial appointments, then limiting judicial terms will just mean we have the same fights but more often.
If we do not reform the extremely partisan process of judicial appointments, then limiting judicial terms will just mean we have the same fights but more often.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1384099458955231232
Also, we need to discuss the elephant in the room: the partisan fight over the judiciary is really just a fight to fill a power vacuum.
Judges are not supposed to decide political questions. Congress is. But Congress is completely broken and incapable of filling that role.
Judges are not supposed to decide political questions. Congress is. But Congress is completely broken and incapable of filling that role.
We have a Senate apportioned by archaic rules that give some voters 55x more power than others depending on their state's population, and a filibuster rule that effectively lets senators representing 13% of the country block legislation with broad bipartisan consensus.
Look, I disagree with the right wing justices on guns, campaign finance, and other issues, but the fact is most of their cases aren't constitutional, they're statutory.
They're stuff we should be writing new laws on, but instead are asking them to rewrite the old ones for us.
They're stuff we should be writing new laws on, but instead are asking them to rewrite the old ones for us.
So honestly, the main problem with the Supreme Court isn't anything about the court itself, it's the problem that Congress is nonfunctional and rather than fixing that, we have decided we'd rather make the justices be Congress instead.
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