Should the Supreme Court Be Reformed?
"The Supreme Court is one of America’s most important institutions. But in recent years the legitimacy of the Court has come under question as Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Senate Republicans have bent the nomination process for their own political gain, causing irreparable damage that will last for a generation. So is there anything we can do? Our new video suggests five possible remedies to reform the Supreme Court."
I would love to see these changes. GOP would never agree.
Once Bitch/Mitch refused Merritt Garland, and once they said okay to all that money to be allowed in via citizens united, they ceased to be legitimate.
All branches of our government need to be reformed. The present form is outdated and unable to keep up with changing times and our overblown population.
When Twittler is impeached, every single one of his guys need to go too. #FuckTheMafiaGOP
Serves no purpose other than bending interpretation of a dusty old document, the constitution of no authority.
Disband it. Criminalize the bar association that writes statutory law while not even being a govt entity.
Courts, bar assoc are as crooked and federal as the federal reserve bank.
I wonder if anyone had an issue when George Washington appointed the entire court?
@OwlInASack you don't think that Washington's court leaned to his political thinking?
@OwlInASack Washington was a federalist. The opposition party was the democratic republicans. All Washington 's appointees were federalist. The opposition was in just as much of an uproar as you appear to be.
Changing 1 branch of the government would require a constitutional convention or an ammendment. Neither of which are likely.
I would rather see term limits for senate and house and leave the judiciary stable with life terms.
@OwlInASack it is one party control
Just as if trump were able to appoint the full court.
That is why more than a simple majority is required for Senate confirmation.
Checks and balances.
Increase the number of judges but not like the video notes by letting democrats or republicans choose, the court is supposed to be non partisan. At the same time rotate from the federal judge pool by random selection say every five years. My example would be 15 judges and every five years five would be rotated out. Add six to the current total, in five years, five of the oldest serving would be rotated out and continued that way.
Yes!
Without any doubt!
The court is supposed to be govern by the constitution, civil, and criminal law(s) to which a fair and equitable outcome to those who have supposedly been wrong in practice of such laws!
The Obstructionist republicans are stacking the courts with bought and sold overt conservatives judges who are directly in the pockets of wealthy and their corporations!
The courts are overtly corrupted by conservative religious fanatics!
This is how Hilter came to power in 1933 with only 16% of the elected German government, the Fascist were able to have judges appointed who were hard core NAZI's party members who were bought and owned by wealthy and the industrialists who own and control all the major corporations of the German Republic.
If dems get both legislative houses what I would do is the following;
How would you get around the required ratification by the states?
@WilliamFleming we'll cross that bridge when we get there, doing nothing is for cowards
@WilliamFleming, @OldMetalHead if we don't at least try, nothing will ever be accomplished
@OldMetalHead How are you going to overturn Citizens United. Congress already passed a law barring corporations and labor unions from campaigning for candidates within certain periods. The Supreme Court found that law to be unconstitutional because it was a violation of free speech. I don’t see how you can change things except with a constitutional amendment.
@WilliamFleming by amending the constitution.
@OldMetalHead That makes sense.
Whether it should or should not, it's not going to be reformed.
@jlynn37 When you talk to "god" again, tell him to shove his patriarchal bullshit up his ass. Thanks.
@ReadyforaChange You can do that yourself and won't need to rely on me or anyone else. In fact I think you just did.
@jlynn37 I said it to you...you God? Get some help. By the way, Christians not welcome on this site...why you wanna stir up shit asshole?
I don't know, I think by the time you could get any of these things implemented in a fair and unbiased way the technology will have arrived to make any changes you have made obsolete. Technically, we already have this technology but it has yet to be applied in legal situations.
IBM's Watson is able to find abstract patterns in large data sets, meaning it should be able to find contradictions in existing law, suggest rulings and even find loopholes within other laws.
FDR tried adding justices back in the '30s, it didn't work then either.
America is a deeply conservative nation, with brief spurts of liberalism. This is reflected in our history. The liberal periods bring about vast reactionary forces, which we are living through right now.
Partly this is because it's so much easier to unite and hate something new than it is to unite and push for change. It's easier, for instance, to hate Obamacare than it is to support a complex health care law. But slowly, liberalism becomes the status quo.
Not going to read a FB post, but yes, the SC is broken. No idea how to fix it.
But then again I think the constitution is broken and needs to be fixed, too.
I do think that we are way over due for a constitutional convention. The 2nd amendment was written for a pre-Civil War national defense plan and is way out of date and needs to be updated and clarified to reflect conditions that exist today. The 2st and 14th amendments are in conflict. You can't fully implement either without violating the other one.
However I think we waited too9 long to update it. If we tried to do so now, we likely would end up with something far less than what we have. Mostly because we as a nation are too polarized at this time
@NoPlanetB actually Bush v Gore was when public trust in the supreme court's legitimacy took a high hit and started to erode, Trump and McConnell just no longer care about the courts legitimacy and don't care if we know it of not.
#4 i didn't like at all, but #5 sounds pretty good to me, although a random selection or an established order won't necessarily prevent a slightly stacked court. Small fish considering what we've got now.