my brain just wandered off creating a scene from a dystopian film where every election cycle the new president appoints whatever number of judges will give their "side" the majority. visions of a few decades from now when there are so many judges that they meet in an abandoned sports area and it's like the worst day in parliament - people wearing wigs and gowns, booing, throwing wadded up paper at one another while one person holds the ceremonial "staff of speaking" but the din from the crowd overpowers what they are saying... a sea of black gowns and white curls as ineffectual as our current House of Representatives... . . oh wait - I'm supposed to be at work.. sorry. closing hubskipack the courts, who gives a shit at this point
I mean, that's pretty much how I felt until a few weeks ago. It is fun to think about justices in terms of exponential growth and carrying capacity :p Legit though, it seems like the two alternatives are: Illegitimate partisan court that ping pongs every time a new party takes control or Illegitimate partisan court that is extremely republican forever imo it was already on shaky ground in 2000 when they just up & decided who would be the president. and when Obama was completely denied any pick at all was the beginning of the end but omg Just this month, they've decided which gerrymandered maps are allowed on purely partisan grounds. They've ruled in ways against the 4th and 1st amendments several times in ways that no possible reading of the constitution could justify. Overturned almost a century of precedent that was upheld just 2 years ago wrt Native American sovereignty. Maybe impeach + replace is better than packing? Keeps the numbers down at least. And vaguely related to the house of representative thing, oh man, it's never going to happen but I did see a proposal for expanding the house to somewhere around 10,000. Every town or village would have at least one, people would vote online from the comfort of their homes, you could legitimately know your representative personally and they could still live locally instead of uprooting everything to move to DC,