One of Thomas's good friends is posting about (smaller) corruption by RBG and Sotomayer. It's time to take SCOTUS off the honor system.
www.propublica.org
What would expanding the court do to fix these issues? Adding more judges could increase the problem. Again, if the court was 6-3 left leaning, you wouldn't be begging for expansion. Term limits wouldn't fix it either. Ethical reforms would be the only option.
I can’t keep retyping my suggestions for those too lazy to look them up. But one of the reasons why I like expanding the court to something like 21 is so you could have a lottery when cases are brought up. This would place a random justice selection of 7, 9, 11, or whatever we determine the number to be. That would make it much harder for billionaires like Leo or Singer to buy off judges to determine the outcomes of their cases. As it stands now, conservative groups like the Federalist Society and billionaires like Leo, know that they just need to keep Alito and Thomas happy to maintain their control over the court, achieving wins that they wouldn’t be able to achieve through the legislative process.
Pretty good idea.
This. It's the untouchable nature of the court that propagates this stuff. And if you think this is new, I think you'd be pretty naive. It's just easier to find this stuff with social media. They need extremely harsh penalties and automatic expulsion combined with criminal prosecution for this kind of ****, impfho. This is the central unimpeachable pillar of our entire Republic. It must be treated as such. There should be tight standards, regular external and non- or at least bi-partisan oversight, complete with full audits and extreme transparency. These people hold the very foundations of our nation in their hands, it is the most serious job there is in our country. It needs to be treated as such and not allowed to become a good old boys club.
Again, no one is buying off Judges. I have asked you twice to show the bribes and the court cases in which the justice changed his opinion. You have not provided this. You're making this up. You could have a lottery right now, we don't need all 9 judges to decide a case. Alito and Thomas are already right wing, what is a right wing billionaire going to do to change their opinion to make it more right?
You should try reading the article cited above (post 29). I even included a link to it, did you miss that?
Hard no. It is the untouchable nature of the court that allows the court to function. The proposed reforms would be the end of the republic within 2 decades.
Did you even read the article? Where is the bribe? Where did he change his opinion?
supreme.justia.com
Switch out Thomas/Alito with KBJ and Crow or Singer with George Soros. Now imagine the outrage from the right.
You miss the point, or willfully ignore it, likely the latter. There is of course a policy of ethical practices, which obviously is not being followed, and has no teeth. That is the point. There is a document they subscribe to with zero accountability as to how they conduct themselves. There needs to be stronger oversight on ethical issues and forced recusal or other sanctions when an ethical conflict comes before the court. So if you're on the court and your best billionaire buddy just took you and your family to his mansion in france for a week-long vacation, and a week after you get back his case comes before the court, you would be automatically recused from the case. Simple. But it requires transparency and oversight to ensure these conflicts are known and mitigated.
