I can't believe I even have to say this, but it is not normal that the Supreme Court is taking its sweet time to decide if the president can incite an insurrection to overturn an election and maintain power. This should have been decided already. The answer is no!
The Supreme Court should probably be reconstituted as a subset of all current circuit court judges, 11 of whom are selected at random to sit for a given session.
That's an awesome idea, but I think it'd require a constitutional amendment to change. So that's not happening.
Doubling down on your hypothetical, though, also have a second set of those judges selected who will decide on what cases go before the court.
So you don't have the people making the ruling the same ones deciding on which cases to rule on, and which ones they don't.
The Constitution says almost nothing about the how the Supreme Court should be constituted or even how its members be selected, only that we should have one. I don't see how any of its language precludes it sitting with existing higher court judges on the bench on a per-session basis.
Hell, at least that'd guarantee they'd be real judges, unlike the attempted Bork or for that matter Amy Barrett.
