Mad Dog is happy to report that his relentless hectoring of his Twitter targets, his letters to the editor of the Times etc, have finally got the attention of at least one "opinion leader" namely David Leonhardt of the NY Times, who writes that the United States Supreme Court is now so fatally afflicted with partisanship, term limits for the justices should be imposed.
Of course, he wusses out by going for the 18 year limit scheme, and this would require a Constitutional amendment and getting that through 34 state legislatures stands a snowball's chance, but at least he is a mainstream media type who finally acknowledges sinking Brett Kavanaugh is an exercise in mass delusion, the red herring let loose to distract attention, when the great white shark is silently gliding behind.
The problem with the Supreme Court is not Brett Kavanaugh, nor even Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas or Roberts. The problem is the custom of running the court with only nine justices, each of whom serve for life.
Other countries have 27 or even 100 supreme court justices and they work just fine.
The problem with our court is as the nation changes with respect to its ideas about segregated schools, abortion, campaign contributions, gun control, labor unions, the Court remains somewhere to the right of Roger B. Taney and Genghis Kahn.
The problem is change is fine as long as change can be undone, modified as experiments fail and new ideas emerge.
But at least we are beginning to hear people talk openly about actions which are the natural outcome of Mitch McConnell's breaking the rules, because he had the power to do it: It was Obama's turn and McConnell refused to let him have his turn. Well now: you broke it; we'll fix it.
Of course, he wusses out by going for the 18 year limit scheme, and this would require a Constitutional amendment and getting that through 34 state legislatures stands a snowball's chance, but at least he is a mainstream media type who finally acknowledges sinking Brett Kavanaugh is an exercise in mass delusion, the red herring let loose to distract attention, when the great white shark is silently gliding behind.
The problem with the Supreme Court is not Brett Kavanaugh, nor even Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas or Roberts. The problem is the custom of running the court with only nine justices, each of whom serve for life.
Other countries have 27 or even 100 supreme court justices and they work just fine.
The problem with our court is as the nation changes with respect to its ideas about segregated schools, abortion, campaign contributions, gun control, labor unions, the Court remains somewhere to the right of Roger B. Taney and Genghis Kahn.
The problem is change is fine as long as change can be undone, modified as experiments fail and new ideas emerge.
But at least we are beginning to hear people talk openly about actions which are the natural outcome of Mitch McConnell's breaking the rules, because he had the power to do it: It was Obama's turn and McConnell refused to let him have his turn. Well now: you broke it; we'll fix it.
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