I devised a map which creates districts if we start electing Supreme Court judges. The Chief Justice would be elected at large. I included the territories.
Question is, which of the districts would elect liberal judges, which would elect conservatives, and which would elect moderates?
I would think the California and New England districts would elect the most liberal, and the Texas and Midwest-Upper South light blue the most conservative. The pink one in the Midwest would be the most swing.
If we have come to expect and to take for granted that Justices are motivated by their own ideology to make their decisions about the meaning of the U.S. Constitution and the federal laws they are to "interpret," then we might as well hold elections for the Justices. Maybe this is going to be inevitable, given that we have presidential candidates who no longer even talk as if they are going to select who to appoint to the Court based on the objectivity of the appointees. I still keep hoping that we will, before my death (I'm 53), see a person appointed who has a commitment to objectivity; someone like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Cardozo, Hugo Black.
