honestly you changed my mind on it. I was leaning toward a 15 member court but a 31-35 member court would (1) get so fucking much done and (2) allow each president to seat enough justices that they felt they made a sizable historical dent on the court that hopefully they wouldn’t try to ratfuck it so much (and my pony will breath fire). we’ve been talking (at least amongst my legal circles) about massively expanding the appellate courts for years, why are we not talking the same about the supreme courts?
part of the problem is ruling on nationwide edicts. they’d need to seat the entire damn court en banc and vote en banc (latin legal term. it means the whole damn group of judges). i’m not sure how to make it seem fair otherwise. which slows the court back down to its current pace.
I’m not too worried about the speed, slowing down the process would probably be good in many cases.
I don’t see a problem in seating them all. They have to show up for work every day, like anyone else. If it’s a court day, they’re expected to be there.
justice delayed is justice denied. i know it’s a quip but it’s true. when you have to go through the legal system what little justice you get comes far too late as it is. we need more judges so we can process things faster so people don’t have to sit in jail waiting for their cases because they can’t afford bail (which shouldn’t exist in the first place but don’t get me started. or let me go off further)
honestly you changed my mind on it. I was leaning toward a 15 member court but a 31-35 member court would (1) get so fucking much done and (2) allow each president to seat enough justices that they felt they made a sizable historical dent on the court that hopefully they wouldn’t try to ratfuck it so much (and my pony will breath fire). we’ve been talking (at least amongst my legal circles) about massively expanding the appellate courts for years, why are we not talking the same about the supreme courts?
part of the problem is ruling on nationwide edicts. they’d need to seat the entire damn court en banc and vote en banc (latin legal term. it means the whole damn group of judges). i’m not sure how to make it seem fair otherwise. which slows the court back down to its current pace.
I’m not too worried about the speed, slowing down the process would probably be good in many cases.
I don’t see a problem in seating them all. They have to show up for work every day, like anyone else. If it’s a court day, they’re expected to be there.
justice delayed is justice denied. i know it’s a quip but it’s true. when you have to go through the legal system what little justice you get comes far too late as it is. we need more judges so we can process things faster so people don’t have to sit in jail waiting for their cases because they can’t afford bail (which shouldn’t exist in the first place but don’t get me started. or let me go off further)