- Gormadt ( @Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 31•6 days ago
Having a supreme court justice for each judicial district seems like a good idea to me, for a total of 13.
And also having term limits would be great.
- Melody Fwygon ( @fwygon@beehaw.org ) 3•3 days ago
This. Pull judges directly from the Federal Circuit; run them for 8-10 years; then send them back to the Federal Circuit as a ‘Distinguished’ judge.
Supreme Court Judges should resist political pressure; but they should not be appointed for life.
Info: A ‘Distinguished Judge’ is a former SCOTUS justice who served their complete term and cannot be re-nominated to the Supreme Court ever again. It is a lifetime title granted when they make it to the SCOTUS and complete one term.
- Gormadt ( @Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•3 days ago
NGL that sounds pretty cool, judges earning a title for Serving their nation as a member of SCOTUS.
And of course coming with a nice retirement package and a lifetime ban from working for companies who cases they over saw as a justice.
- Midnitte ( @Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English17•6 days ago
Especially since it’s harder to corrupt a larger pool…
- lolcatnip ( @lolcatnip@reddthat.com ) English17•6 days ago
Or at least more expensive.
- Atelopus-zeteki ( @Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io ) 11•6 days ago
Anyone informed of this simple fact ought to want to expand the court. Who did they interview, anyway? Only the clueless?
- Gormadt ( @Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•5 days ago
The median voter. So yes, the clueless.
- Spitzspot ( @Spitzspot@lemmings.world ) 23•6 days ago
Compromise by doing both.
Although a poll of ~1600 people does seem like kind of a small sample size . . .
- Zaktor ( @Zaktor@sopuli.xyz ) English11•6 days ago
It’s a fine sample size. That’s a normal national poll. A poll of 1,000 people has a margin of error (from random sampling) of 3%. There are other errors than random chance that could bias a poll, but random chance is what sampling size is generally managing.