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[-] SolarMech@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 months ago

Where I'm from judges have to be picked by a list prepared by the bar of that jurisdiction, IIRC. That way you can't just get any barely competent idiot who happens to be a good party man as a justice on the highest court of the land.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

This is a great idea! Maybe im wrong but it seems like this wasn’t a problem historically. Even partisan judges were competent. It’s only in recent years that they dropped that pretense, so maybe it was one of those things where we just assumed you’d want someone who knew what they were doing.

One of the things that Trump was great at is clearly identifying places where we just assume anyone in that position would do the right thing, out of some duty to actually running the country. Fine, let’s drown them in paperwork

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