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  Should the Supreme Court be popularly elected? (search mode)
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Question: Should the SCOTUS, instead of being appointed, be elected directly by the people in a nonpartisan manner?
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« on: July 23, 2014, 06:44:23 AM »
SCOTUS should have regular 18 year terms, so that one comes up for appointment every odd-numbered year. Long enough for them to be largely insulated from politics, but removes the perverse incentive to just appoint the youngest people possible.
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