• Kleinbonum@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Judges simply shouldn’t be nominated by one single person, particularly if that person is the de facto leader of his political party. And confirmation of judges simply shouldn’t be possible purely based on how many seats that same party holds in the Senate and, in a worst case scenario, without any kind of bipartisanship purely along party lines.

    Because that essentially means that Supreme Court judges are nominated and confirmed by the political parties.

    Apart from maybe a president being able to single-handed determining Supreme Court judges, almost any other system would be better. Including - as shitty as that would be - direct election of Supreme Court judges by the entire electorate.