Sherrilyn IfillMany commentators are tweeting & tooting that we need to expand the SCOTUS. That is not the answer to everything. Unless you just want a larger Court, not bound by ethics rules, engaging in the kind of behavior described in the NYT piece. What we need are guardrails - an understanding that the Court sits w/i our democracy. Our job us to strengthen it by creating the processes that promote impartiality & insulation from lobbying, not crossing our fingers & hoping for the best.
Thornbill9@ifilljustice how do you have rules without a mechanism to enforce them? We saw this amply demonstrated during trump’s term how many precedents could be easily brushed aside by a party and movement with little interest in anything other than power. Impeachment for one is of little threat given the bar for conviction
Jay S. Fleischman@thornbill9 @ifilljustice That presumes a person’s ideology remains consistent over time, doesn’t it? That presumption is inherently false; for example, I’ve become far more leftist over time while some others have gone in the opposite direction. How do we account for that?