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Nicook | 9 days ago

Scalia wrote some really interesting opinions for sure. Feel like the arguments are only going to get worse :(

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tialaramex|9 days ago

Because in practice the US Supreme Court is a partisan body, the United States is deprived of the potential for excellent jurists you'd expect with a population of hundreds of millions and some of the world's best law schools. Only a subset of your best will exhibit the desired partisan skew.

Despite the larger population and improved access, my guess is that the quality of Supreme Court Justices today is probably worse than in 1927 when it decided Buck v Bell (which says it's fine for states to have a policy where they sterilize "unfit" citizens, straight up Eugenics)

0xDEAFBEAD|8 days ago

How would you suggest selecting jurists in a way that doesn't introduce partisan incentives?