Current Affairs General US politics (ie, not POTUS related)

[BirkenheadBlue]

Obviously figuring out a way to balance the Supreme Court in the short term is a priority, but do you know if of any workable suggestions for depoliticizing it in the long term? If we can’t get it back to a place where you just have justices who are above partisan politics and trying to legislate from the bench, sure Democrats can balance it at their first opportunity, but it will just set off a tit for tat cycle where eventually you end up with some obscene number on the court. As for how to make this happen, I’m at a complete loss.

There's a proposal out there supported by some folks, not electeds, right and left where the members of the SCOTUS would not have life terms. They would be on the court for 18 years and staggered for replacement 2 each POTUS term. It doesn't guarantee ideological balance and I'm not sure how it deals with untimely departures from the Court but it seems an idea worth exploring.

I saw a proposal that would HUGELY expand the size of the SCOTUS bench, to something like 30 (or might even have been more, I don't remember). You then have, I think it was 7 in this proposal (chosen in some random fashion) ruling on each given case.

It would deal with the fact that the SCOTUS workload is currently far too large, and would make the appointment of any 1 individual justice far less consequential.

 

[BlueTX]

I saw a proposal that would HUGELY expand the size of the SCOTUS bench, to something like 30 (or might even have been more, I don't remember). You then have, I think it was 7 in this proposal (chosen in some random fashion) ruling on each given case.

It would deal with the fact that the SCOTUS workload is currently far too large, and would make the appointment of any 1 individual justice far less consequential.

Very interesting...

 

[TN Toffee]

There's a proposal out there supported by some folks, not electeds, right and left where the members of the SCOTUS would not have life terms. They would be on the court for 18 years and staggered for replacement 2 each POTUS term. It doesn't guarantee ideological balance and I'm not sure how it deals with untimely departures from the Court but it seems an idea worth exploring.

That seems like the kind of thing that also setting an age limit could help mitigate.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Very interesting...

Seemed like a decent idea to me. Biden could even let the Republicans pick a good number of the new justices.

Sick thing is, you'd still never get McConnell to go for it, simply because they've got the upper hand now.

 

[TN Toffee]

I saw a proposal that would HUGELY expand the size of the SCOTUS bench, to something like 30 (or might even have been more, I don't remember). You then have, I think it was 7 in this proposal (chosen in some random fashion) ruling on each given case.

It would deal with the fact that the SCOTUS workload is currently far too large, and would make the appointment of any 1 individual justice far less consequential.

I’ll see if I can find some more info on that one. As you’ve described it, I certainly don’t hate it.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Looks done

 

[BlueTX]

Looks done

I so very much want FOX to make this call. They and AP are the only ones to have called Arizona, as well. Would make the right-wing's biggest mouthpiece the first TV network to call the election for Joe Biden as this would put his EV count at exactly 270.

The fume will be exquisite.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Wow

 

[catcherintherye]

they should be given statehood and two senators, yes.

Are they not currently?

 

[BlueTX]

Wow

I'm a broken record. End the Electoral College.

 

[TN Toffee]

I'm a broken record. End the Electoral College.

For all the Republican fear mongering about socialism, isn’t the Electoral College, the very thing that allows them to have a shout at winning a presidential election, a form of socialism? The difference being that rather than redistributing money we’re redistributing political power.

 

[tsubaki]

Are they not currently?

nope

 

[BlueTX]

For all the Republican fear mongering about socialism, isn’t the Electoral College, the very thing that allows them to have a shout at winning a presidential election, a form of socialism? The difference being that rather than redistributing money we’re redistributing political power.

Son, you just insulted the Founders. We don't cotton to yer type round here.

 

[catcherintherye]

nope

Why not?

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Why not?

Because DC isn't a state