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Absolutely, and let me tout my less-radical-than-it-seems suggestion of what to do about SCOTUS: sortition. Only the role of the chief justice is constitutionally enshrined. Write a Judiciary Act prescribing that the other seats get filled by a yearly random draw from the courts of appeals.
i mentioned this before but the last week or two has fully clarified that the rest of our lives is a drag-out fight against the supreme court that starts with priming the public to enthusiastically support — or at the very least resist decorum-based media calls against — completely rebuilding it
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Make it impossible, in other words, for axe-grinding litigants to know who would hear their union-busting/Black-voter suppressing case du jour — or for the Harlan Crows of the world to know where to send their bribes.
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Terms end in September, so that they're largely making cert decisions for their successors and not themselves?
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Yep! You’re following me — essentially remove the ability of entrenched ideologues to shape their own docket, by ending their entrenchment.