{"id":1210,"date":"2021-04-16T12:45:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T12:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2021-04-16T12:45:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T12:45:38","slug":"how-i-would-reform-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/16\/how-i-would-reform-the-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"How I would reform the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Babylon Bee<\/i> — the paper of record — had the perfect satire for the idea of increasing the Supreme Court to 13 justices: Losing Baseball Team Suggests New Rules Allowing Them To Add 4 Players To The Field.<\/a> <\/p>\n

But just because the recent proposal is somewhat ridiculous doesn’t change the fact that some reforms might be wise. <\/p>\n

ISTM there are two main problems with the court. <\/p>\n

The first is that the court has been filling a legislative vacuum. The solution for that has little to do with the court. Congress needs to step up. Not that I want this Congress<\/i> to do anything but resign, but in general terms, Congress needs to stop pushing off their legislative duty on the courts and the federal agencies. <\/p>\n

The second problem is the obvious one — that the nomination of a new Supreme Court justice is such a partisan drama. For that one, I think the solution is to expand the court to dilute the impact of any given nomination. But not from 9 to 13. That’s peanuts. It needs to be a much bigger number.<\/i> <\/p>\n

There’s currently about 179 judges<\/a> on the federal bench. Why not just have them rotate in and out on the Supreme Court? That would severely reduce the significance of any individual nomination. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Babylon Bee — the paper of record — had the perfect satire for the idea of increasing the Supreme Court to 13 justices: Losing Baseball Team Suggests New Rules Allowing Them To Add 4 Players To The Field. But just because the recent proposal is somewhat ridiculous doesn’t change the fact that some reforms … Continue reading “How I would reform the Supreme Court”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}