If not reform in the future,

barefooted — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 02:00:46 +0000

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If not reform in the future, some consistency among the rulings today might be nice:

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sotomayor-blistering-dissent-contraception-case

I am not convinced that the

EmmaZahn — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 20:09:20 +0000

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I am not convinced that the reform most needed is at a cultural level or simply term limits because of how special interests have targeted and packed the federal judicial system with people who owe them their careers.

Check out the CVs of the current Supreme Court justices to get a picture of the pool nominees are drawn from. A clear career path to the Supreme Court has been defined. See how fast the Chief Justice touched the right bases with a couple of years here, a couple of years there. It's really quite scanty experience. How on earth was he made a justice much less the chief one? Special interests working the system. That is why reform should be considered.

Major reform would not be necessary Possibly only convincing the President and the Senate Judiciary Committee to simply expand the pool of nominees to include State Supreme Court Justices, for instance. Or, since there is no constitutional requirement that justices be lawyers, expand it even further with people from other fields -- their clerks can handle the legal stuff.

Personally I would like to see a bit more reform built onto that. Anyone interested in a Supreme Court position would submit an application to the Senate Judiciary Committee which would then submit acceptable applicants to the full Senate for its Advice and Consent. Approved applicants go into a pool (subject to an annual review) awaiting an opening. When there is one, the President picks a name by lot from the pool.

I would really like to see more government positions filled the same way: Identify qualified applicants then choose them by lot, not by political persuasion.

The Senate don't want to

trkingmomoe — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 22:03:43 +0000

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The Senate don't want to reform their rules but they are realizing they are going to have too. It is the same with the non political branch of the government. The political branches may also come to realize that the court system, the non political branch, might need to be reformed when it stops serving the good of the people.

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If not reform in the future,

I am not convinced that the

The Senate don't want to