#3goodthings #scotus
1. Abolishing the Supreme Court as it now exists.
2. Having each Appeals Court elect one of their number to hear SCOTUS appeals for two year terms.**
3. Limiting Appeals court terms to 12 years (not lifetime appointments).
** Implication being that the ethical rules that apply to all Federal judges would also apply to those serving on SCOTUS.
One problem is that this basically undermines one of the three branches of federal government, rolling the Supreme Court into the legislative branch, and allowing a ton of misbehavior from that branch to oversee its own behaviors.
It allows the legislative branch to pass unconstitutional laws by setting up the appeals courts to elect Supreme Court Justices that it favors.
It sets up a conflict of interests and undermines checks and balances in exactly the sort of way that the US government structure was avoiding.
