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Justice Neil Gorsuch took 10 minutes to approve Dobbs abortion opinion – report
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Well yeah. Alito was executing "the plan" they all already agreed on back at the Federalist Society. SCOTUS has been captured by far right forces. The court is illegitimate and corrupt to the core.
5 out of 9 are known to have taken what looks to be bribes:
Until the Supreme Court is completely overhauled, it's going to be extremely difficult to substantively change the heading of this country. Conservatives see this as a win, but they're too short-sighted to realize they shot themselves in the foot just the same.
We could also water it down, adding justices seems to be the only option since they don't/won't hold themselves accountable.
I'm no legal expert but I've always thought the randomized or rotating court idea (perhaps > 9) filled by lower circuit courts would be better and less partisan overall.
There are 13 circuit courts full of judges, all with their own lifetime appointments. I believe the proposed idea is that the current supreme court could be made up of random, rotating judges on temporary assignments from the 13 circuit courts. Currently, the 9 justices oversee one or more of the 13 circuits. So, we could expand the court to match the 13 circuits, and then, as justices retire/die, their replacements are randomly assigned to terms of 18-24 months from the circuits they oversee. It would still meet the constitutional requirements for the supreme court, as it only requires that there is a supreme Court made up of appointed justices in good standing.
I'm sure it's more complex than that, but those are the basics of the random appointments and rotating seated justices.
I've never heard of that option, but they're appointed too right? Not sure if that would fix it.
All of Canada's judges are appointed (which, iirc, isn't what happens in America).
It is rare to see any judge up here so politically partisan. Part of that may be that we repatriated our Constitution in 1982 (to formally acknowledge our independence from Britain) so judges are basing decisions on a newer document. The other thing is Canadian courts do not put "original intent" above all ... they consider the changes in society's mores and beliefs just as important.
Up here all judges abhor being reversed so work very hard to base their rulings on facts. I'm not sure if it's the same in America.
Who reverses them, do you have a Supreme Court type of system?
Yes, provincial and the Supreme Court of Canada (SCoC) ... just like America does (state/SCOTUS).
It looks like you're pretty similar, just not as corrupt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Canada#Current_members
They are but they tend to be constantly cycling out at a given time and so seem less concentrated or determined by individual presidents. They are also possibly subject to less lobbying targeting given which group presiding over a specific case would never be certain.
Why would Republicans care about that? They aren't black! Except for the black one taking the most bribes so they consider him white!
Thomas isn't the one taking the most bribes, it's just the one they focus on in the media.
It's not a recent thing.
There was about 5 minutes under Warren where the court looks like it might actually be progressive. Other than that essentially it's entire history it's just a archconservative institution that exists as a check on civil rights.
Wow, that was a hell of a read. Thank you.
So what are you going to do about it?