03-18-2022, 10:58 AM
(09-19-2020, 02:34 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Rest in Peace, indeed. Pancreatic cancer is horrible.
Now for the political manifestations: I expect President Trump to force upon us one of his judicial stooges, someone who believes something as diametrically opposed to what Ruth Bader Ginsburg stood for as is possible.
Are the candidates now being mentioned those to replace RBG, or the resignation of one of the other justices. Earlier this week Thom Hartmann did a piece on the state of SCOTUS today with the implication that it may be being hijacked in a way. While in school I learned that the reason the body has an odd number is so there could never be a tie vote. And the reason they were appointed for life terms expiring only upon death or resignation was supposedly so that politics wouldn't enter the picture. We all know now that this happens anyway.
Such would no doubt require constitutional amendment, but might be beneficial to throw out the idea as to whether we should move to an elected SCOTUS, just like most states do it.