The Judicial Branch (Supreme Court) PASSED

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The Supreme Court is the guardian of last resort for constitutional government and the freedoms enshrined therein. I trust that just like in 2013, people will come to their senses and oppose base attempts to induce partisan and factional interests into the jurisprudence of the high court. I too would like a more active and involved court, but I would prefer that its independence be strictly guarded.

 

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Aside from Opebo, who is long gone, the longest any person has been on the court is two years, though bgwah is creeping towards 4 (only two of which have been in his current position though). 

Since Opebo's banning we have had 3 vacancies in the space of under two years. I don't think there has ever been a situation where the judges have been partial or baised based on political influence and considering we have had a liberal court since Bullmoose left in 2009, that says a lot both about the structure and about the types of Justices we have had.

We have had problems with activity and that is 1) a problem because there was a lack of accountability and we fixed that problem. 2) because of a lack of cases and I am interesting in hearing proposals to change that, particularly what Blair has in mind.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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I like the idea that Truman suggested, but it does create some degree of concern for how you organize the rotation and the ability to serve in other offices during time not on the bench. Perhaps six month rotations instead of four.

I also like Blair's idea. As an alternative, we could assign each sitting Justice a region kind of like in real life with the appeals courts gets a Supreme Court Justice assigned to it, and if a region wants to, they can assign their judicial capacity to said Justice and forgo a regional judicial official.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Third Convention - lasted two seasons, had no direction and people disagreed and never resolved those disagreements. Didn't even draft a final product.

Fourth Convention - Lasted two/three months (IIRC), everybody agreed, little was changed. Final product became the third constitution.

Granted, I didn't expect nine months either, but conditions in which we are operating and the differences that need to be settled to succeed, means that a shorter one probably would not have passed a successful product.