How to take back the courts
No term limits. Can create new districts but don't know what that would accomplish. Can increase the number of judges legislatively.
I guess creating new districts is just another way of increasing the number of judges.
You can't impose term limits on the appeals courts? Is that in the Constitution somewhere?
Steve said:
No term limits. Can create new districts but don't know what that would accomplish. Can increase the number of judges legislatively.
Or decrease them, causing the layoff of the least senior judges, the Trump appointees. The Judicial Act of 1802 caused the termination of sitting judges.
https://www.fjc.gov/history/exhibits/graphs-and-maps/age-and-experience-judges
drummerboy said:
I guess creating new districts is just another way of increasing the number of judges.
You can't impose term limits on the appeals courts? Is that in the Constitution somewhere?
Yes it is.
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But SCOTUS is the least of our problems, since most of the deciding gets done at the Federal appeals level, which Trump and Co. have polluted beyond all recognition.
While SCOTUS has some constitutional limitations, do the appeals courts have any? Can't Congress overhaul the whole lot of them - create more districts, mandate term limits, increase the size of individual courts, etc?
I don't know the answers to these questions, but I really wish someone among the contenders would make this a major talking point.