[ExI] The Handmaid's Tale

[Anton Sherwood]

On 2020-9-26 18:01, Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat wrote:
> I'd also be inclined to having similar terms limits on federal judges
> across the board, making a similar around a decade limit. This would
> stop what we have now: one president who's really got a huge number of
> appointments because the Senate stymied the process for the previous
> president. (Not that the previous president was somehow better, but
> gaming the process managed to allow one party -- more one faction of
> one party to nearly take over the judiciary below the USSC level.)
> 
> I hope they consider ways of making appointments to the courts way
> less political -- maybe by using sortition or distributing the
> process. For instance? Sortition, as mentioned elsewhere, or rotating
> who gets to decide appoints, letting me out of the box... Other things
> to make political input harder in the selection process. None of these
> would be foolproof.

Stop me if you've heard this one before, but here is my modest proposal:
Abolish the Federal judiciary.  Let "federal" matters be heard by the 
courts of the appropriate State, and appealed (once by each party to the 
case) to any other State.

The Tenth Amendment would be taken more seriously; and precedents would 
develop by consensus among equals rather than by infallible decree from 
the apex.

Such a reform will obviously never happen, as it must be initiated by 
Federal politicians.

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