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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

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.

In its early days as an institution, the Supreme Court’s justices used to ride circuit – presiding over cases in assigned states or regions. Sortition would invert this practice — assigning Senate-confirmed judges to one-year stints serving on the nation’s federal court of final appeal.

Because the structure of the Supreme Court isn't defined in constitutional text — only the role of chief justice is — Congress can write language redefining its membership. As this article argues, it departs from legislative precedents to say that change can happen only once all seats fall vacant:

Judicial sortition helps Congress and the Supreme Court - LegBranchwww.legbranch.org There are different ways to win a debate. One of the most common techniques in politics is to make a straw man argument. Straw man arguments are prevalent in political debates because they refute oppo...

Early Supreme Court Justices Ride the Circuit (U.S. National Park Service)www.nps.gov The early Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court also served as Circuit Court judges, and endured hardships as circuit riders.

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