I think the supreme court is the biggest example that what this country needs is to be rebuilt. It is wildly overpowered for its responsibilities and wildly reliant on a faulty premise of branch unity the founding fathers based their accountability mechanisms on. As if the feeling of being encroached on as a legislator would override their happenstance agreement with the specific ruling they see doing the encroaching.
What we need instead is for “SCOTUS” to be a sortitionate body, any federal judge can serve on a SCOTUS provided they are randomly selected for the case and haven’t served it already, up to five SCOTI can try a case via appeals before an “en banc” judgement where all five SCOTUSes retry the case, and if even that fails a judicial synod can be called where every federal judge drops their shit and gets together to law nerd this shit out.
Don’t forget Judicial Review isn’t actually an original function of the Judicial Branch. It’s a power they decided to give themselves some ten years after the Constitution was written.
I think the supreme court is the biggest example that what this country needs is to be rebuilt. It is wildly overpowered for its responsibilities and wildly reliant on a faulty premise of branch unity the founding fathers based their accountability mechanisms on. As if the feeling of being encroached on as a legislator would override their happenstance agreement with the specific ruling they see doing the encroaching.
What we need instead is for “SCOTUS” to be a sortitionate body, any federal judge can serve on a SCOTUS provided they are randomly selected for the case and haven’t served it already, up to five SCOTI can try a case via appeals before an “en banc” judgement where all five SCOTUSes retry the case, and if even that fails a judicial synod can be called where every federal judge drops their shit and gets together to law nerd this shit out.
Don’t forget Judicial Review isn’t actually an original function of the Judicial Branch. It’s a power they decided to give themselves some ten years after the Constitution was written.