• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Having a supreme court justice for each judicial district seems like a good idea to me, for a total of 13.

    And also having term limits would be great.

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      Anyone informed of this simple fact ought to want to expand the court. Who did they interview, anyway? Only the clueless?

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      This. Pull judges directly from the Federal Circuit; run them for 8-10 years; then send them back to the Federal Circuit as a ‘Distinguished’ judge.

      Supreme Court Judges should resist political pressure; but they should not be appointed for life.

      Info: A ‘Distinguished Judge’ is a former SCOTUS justice who served their complete term and cannot be re-nominated to the Supreme Court ever again. It is a lifetime title granted when they make it to the SCOTUS and complete one term.

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        NGL that sounds pretty cool, judges earning a title for Serving their nation as a member of SCOTUS.

        And of course coming with a nice retirement package and a lifetime ban from working for companies who cases they over saw as a justice.

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    Although a poll of ~1600 people does seem like kind of a small sample size . . .

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      It’s a fine sample size. That’s a normal national poll. A poll of 1,000 people has a margin of error (from random sampling) of 3%. There are other errors than random chance that could bias a poll, but random chance is what sampling size is generally managing.