Title: Progressive Court Reform: Appoint Partisan Operatives
Original CoS Document (slug): progressive-court-reform-appoint-partisan-operatives
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Created: 2019-09-08 23:40:27
Updated: 2019-09-19 23:00:10
Published: 2019-09-12 11:29:49
Converted: 2025-04-14T21:04:23.156703289
An old joke about Washington’s elites defines their periodic gaffes as “inadvertent disclosures of the truth.”
The president of a D.C. lobbying organization which “promotes the importance of the courts for progressive issues in our political system” recently brought this definition to light when she said, “Judges make decisions that affect every aspect of our life.”
Precisely. What effectively is legislation routinely springs from federal courts at every level, but especially the Supreme Court.
With no trace of irony, her organization touts itself as “the leader in advocacy for a federal judiciary that advances core constitutional values.”
One wonders which clause in our Constitution promotes the “value” of placing every aspect of our lives in the hands of unelected judges? This is the opposite of the role federal courts were to have in a republic comprised of sovereign citizens.
Yet, many progressives believe federal courts currently have too little “importance” when it comes to implementing their agenda. But they have a solution: stack the Supreme Court with more justices, all chosen based upon partisan affiliation.
No, really. They want Supreme Court justices to bear an R or a D after their names. You can’t make this up. It’s too preposterous for fiction.
Besides, what better way to promote progressives’ “constitutional values” than handing control of the Supreme Court to Team D and Team R operatives?
We have a better idea: rather than packing and stacking the court with black-robed politicians, let’s instead use term limits to send judicial careerists packing.
Lifetime appointments were intended to free judges from political influence. Instead, D.C.’s elites have eviscerated the quaint notion of judicial independence. Now they want to codify “their” judges’ allegiance to the ruling class.
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