The Supreme Court Has Planned for a June So Awful It Will Be Impossible to Keep Up

[Nasruddin]

25. Proudly obtuse

We need some real reform, not starting a grifter packing tit for tat war.

I would rather rehab the system from top to bottom but the constitutional issues will obviously make that very difficult.

A lot of problems are solved by a good term limits scheme. If possible, applied to the whole federal judiciary.
Perhaps, if judges cannot be removed from office except via the broken constitutional measures, they can be moved from post to post after a term. If they don't like it, they can quit.

Another possibility is to make the number of justices flexible, and give every presidential term (say) 2 positions they can add. It would be better yet if each presidential term got 1 free removal too. Senate obfuscation remains a problem.

I don't understand how to deal with the accountability problem without constitutional work. We have a corrupt court and a corrupted judicial system from top to bottom that can crime with near impunity (my guess is that the supreme court justices can do whatever they want and their team will close ranks and intervene if any of them are busted - as we are seeing hints of).

Congress can limit the scope of the supreme court but that will surely lead to a constitutional battle. But it should do this. Probably never would.