SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE: The Judiciary (UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT)

[opebo]

Requiring each justice to write an opinion would require a constitutional amendment, fellows.

[opebo]

Requiring each justice to write an opinion would require a constitutional amendment, fellows.

The point being - it is petty, and quite frankly an insult to the dignity of the Justices and more importantly the dignity and indepedence of the institution, to attempt to micro-manage the court in the way you are doing. 

Lets all step back and face the facts:  The attemps to pack the court failed.  It would be ridiculous to make a constitutional amendment to give us a writing assignment - your oversight is confined to confirmation and impeachment, not to running the court.

[opebo]

i don't know why you're worried about "court packing," since both of the committees working on court reform have pretty much deemed that proposal dead and the chances are that it won't be considered again.

That was precisely my point - you guys failed to pack the court, so don't now in frustration just try to insult us with these demeaning writing assignmetns and micromanagement.

[opebo]

I don't know where you got the idea that we're just doing this all out of frustration.  There are plenty of valid reasons for requiring justices to write their own opinions.

You do realize the Court is a third branch of government, don't you?  Equal to and no subsidiary to the legislative or the executive?  Your powers over us are strictly enumerated, and I see nothing in the Constitution giving you authority to give me homework or otherwise micromanage us.