Amazing how just five people have so much power to shape the destiny of over 300 million others, with no accountability and no end to their term in office other than voluntary resignation or death, and how some of them can flat-out lie during their confirmation hearings with no consequences. Arguments for expanding the Supreme Court, an…
Amazing how just five people have so much power to shape the destiny of over 300 million others, with no accountability and no end to their term in office other than voluntary resignation or death, and how some of them can flat-out lie during their confirmation hearings with no consequences. Arguments for expanding the Supreme Court, and for term limits, just gained traction with me.
It must be comforting to the radical conservatives to know that pretty much anything they feel strongly about can be taken all the way to this Supreme Court with home field advantage, regardless of the will of the majority of the people or the voices of other wise justices or longstanding legal precedent. I'm not convinced that this is what our Founding Fathers had in mind.
I read just yesterday - sorry, don't remember where now - that the number of 9 judges was because there were then 9 federal court districts. The number was meant to be fluid as the populations increased. Another instance where Congress didn't bother acknowledging that things change (including things that don't account for inflation like the federal minimum wage).
Amazing how just five people have so much power to shape the destiny of over 300 million others, with no accountability and no end to their term in office other than voluntary resignation or death, and how some of them can flat-out lie during their confirmation hearings with no consequences. Arguments for expanding the Supreme Court, and for term limits, just gained traction with me.
It must be comforting to the radical conservatives to know that pretty much anything they feel strongly about can be taken all the way to this Supreme Court with home field advantage, regardless of the will of the majority of the people or the voices of other wise justices or longstanding legal precedent. I'm not convinced that this is what our Founding Fathers had in mind.
I read just yesterday - sorry, don't remember where now - that the number of 9 judges was because there were then 9 federal court districts. The number was meant to be fluid as the populations increased. Another instance where Congress didn't bother acknowledging that things change (including things that don't account for inflation like the federal minimum wage).