My Idea for electing Supreme Court justices
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« Reply #25 on: June 03, 2016, 04:30:56 PM »

Why fix something that isn't broken? The Supreme Court works just fine.

Yeah aren't there way more unanimous decisions than ideologically split decisions?  Do I have bad data?
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« Reply #26 on: June 23, 2016, 01:35:51 PM »

I can't wait until the first campaign commercial for justice Scalia jr., Preceded by his first $1,000 a plate dinner.

I think instead of law school pedigrees we should look to commercials to see who's a real American/has castrated pigs in the past.


learn to read lol

Who said anything about not reading your post? I said you "lost my support" the minute you said "electing Supreme Court Justices".

It seems your response is misdirected.
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« Reply #27 on: November 20, 2016, 07:57:45 PM »

I do not see any advantage in electing Supreme Court Justices, nor in having them serve for a fixed number of years. No the Supreme Court is not working just fine, like one person said, but the problem with how the Supreme Court behaves comes from a lack of objectivity. They are too political, because that's the underlying reason why the Presidents appoint them. Presidents from both parties have been selecting who to appoint based on the ideology of the appointees, which translates into the fact that the Justices base their decisions on their own ideologies. Presidents need to appoint people because of their commitment to objectivity. Looking back at the last 100 years, the best example of a President choosing someone for that reason was when Herbert Hoover appointed Benjamin Cardozo. We, the electorate, should start demanding that our presidential candidates look at that appointment as the ideal that should be emulated.
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« Reply #28 on: November 21, 2016, 10:06:22 PM »

I think justices should be limited to a single term for 18 years.
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