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Robert Reich55% of Americans support expanding the Supreme Court.
66% support setting term limits.
73% support establishing a code of ethics for SCOTUS justices.
Public opinion is clear: it's time to reform the court. https://t.co/aU82Ce356R
Tim Chng - 莊 騰 程@rbreich what are the step by step actions that must pass to expand the supreme court?
Goldengladiator@chngthengteng @rbreich
If I remember right there's only one step, the president nominates new members and the senate confirms them. We just need to get the democrats on board.
If I remember right there's only one step, the president nominates new members and the senate confirms them. We just need to get the democrats on board.
Grumble@rbreich Public opinion polls are not actionable.
Poll the 1% if you want to know what politicians are going to do.
JimmySwizzle
Stan Fletcher@rbreich Since there are 13 Federal district courts, each which is assigned to 1 Justice, so how come there are only 9? Shouldn’t there be an equal number of Justices and Districts?
Robert Smith
John BaileyBecause whatever is a popular idea, spread by social media memes, is automatically the right thing to do.
Let's apply this idea to ... Florida, for instance - to see how deeply stupid it really is.
Eric Jennings@rbreich well past time for all of these. Unfortunately I don’t see a good path to much of it happening soon though. It would be great to have the justices on fixed terms and staggered to ensure each presidential term appoints a set number of new justices on a fixed interval. 9 justices on 18-year terms would work well for that.
Sascha Freudenheim@rbreich Well, 55% of Americans can--and often are--wrong. I am deeply troubled by the SCOTUS situation; term limits and a code of ethics are all good steps. But expanding the Court is a political shell game and a bad one at that. And there's a reason that of the three ideas you listed, it has the lowest degree of support.
AdreanaLangston@rbreich You keep talking about these things that the majority of the electorate desire as if the United States is a Democracy. It is not. It is Oligarchy with big D Democratic trappings. This is evidenced by the plethora of policies overwhelmingly supported by the electorate that do NOT come to fruition. Your points prove MY point.
John Yates@rbreich Now that we know the #SupremeCourt right is unethical and corrupt, #Alito and #Thomas must resign immediately, at minimum, or the court must be unpacked to 13, immediately
Don@rbreich It’s time to reform the court. Let’s make this happen.
@rbreich I support all of these but I'm surprised I'm in the majority. What's the source of these stats?
@rbreich yes, the supreme court should be overhauled.
Cockeyed Optimist@rbreich do.all.of.them
quickly, please
Call me GamoraSince we have seen exactly how this Supreme Court chooses to go with politics over the law in every decision, I highly support implementing all of those proposed reforms. This Supreme Court has destroyed my confidence that they would ever choose the law above their political positions.
AntGuyOnMaui 🏳️🌈🐜🐜♾@rbreich With all due respect (and I do hold you in high regard), I strongly disagree that term limits & court expansion will solve anything. In fact, both will surely INCREASE the politicization of the court that we are trying to reduce. What's to stop the next Republican POTUS from expanding the Court even further? The corruption of Congress' checks & balances duties, exemplified by Senator McConnell's refusal to entertain President Obama's last #SCOTUS nominee, is what needs to be addressed.
Robert Wilson, III 🏴🇪🇸🇸🇮@etnom @rbreich I could see a benefit to requiring equal numbers of different political party affiliations in every supreme court (so that more parties require more justices to attain equal representation of party affiliation), but this of course is discrimination based on creed -- which is illegal.
Danatheone@rbreich pack a court and you get unpack a court polls
@rbreich Expand to court to match the number of jurisdictions & set term limits.
@rbreich I'm currently struggling with the idea of discriminating based on creeds, which I take to be basically the same as ethics. Essentially, I guess it's illegal to discriminate based on ethical grounds such as holding opposing values or beliefs about what is ethical. I'm not sure how to reconcile this conflict of wanting to be ethical on the one hand and not discriminating based on creeds I don't agree with on the other. It seems basically impossible.
Marie Walsh@rbreich Justice shouldn't be a Political Chess Tournament..
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Lady Liberty 🗽@rbreich I knew it! Once we got Warnock #SCOTUS impeachments are coming. The con judges are so arrogant thinking they can’t be touched. #scotusstench
72mz@rbreich public opinion is not the best arbiter of decisions like this. Unintended consequences must be considered.
Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸)@rbreich Yeah, but who gets oversight of the reforms... 😆
Aris Teon@rbreich you can't even leave Twitter, but you keep creating free content for the far right oligarch. And yet you keep lecturing on how everyone else should fix the broken system.