agip wrote:
johnny99 wrote:
It will be interesting to see what happens if 1) Trump gets re-elected, 2) the Dems take the Senate, and 3) a SC vacancy opens up next year.
Do the Dems sit on Trump's nomination for 4 years? That's basically the precedent that Mitch McConnell has laid down.
yeah I think that supreme court seats will go unfilled, next time the WH and Senate are from different parties. The court will shrink.
The moonshot is a change in structure...there are many proposals on the table to end lifetime tenure and allow one pick per 4 year prez term. Would be so much better.
Curious if anyone knows why the founders decided that the president should pick the SC justices (combined with a low bar approval from the senate)? In the era of Trump, I have way less respect for the electorate than ever before, but....the people get to directly pick the other two branches of federal government (and directly pick non-federal justices). Why was it decided that one of the branches should get to directly pick the other? I'm not even sure that it would make things any better, but holding occasional elections to keep only 9 seats filled is certainly easily logistically possible. Despite what I think of electorate, I think that I'd still prefer that to yet another thing for Congress and POTUS to f*** around with.