Accusing SC Justices of partisanship and prejudice. Isn't that hyperbole?

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It kept out Robert Bork.

A veto could also have kept out Bork.

Btw, I don’t know if presidential nomination is the best process for choosing SC judges (or federal judges in general) in the first place.

1. The American system is hugely flawed by the de facto necessity of the 2 party system.

Parliamentary system have their own issues, however. Ultimately, I don’t know which is better.

I more or less agree with your points on the rise of echo chambers in US political life, but I think radicalization has mostly occurred on the right. Yes, we on the left do have our echo chambers, but we are normal (with a normal level of flaws, etc.), whereas the right has gone nuts with MAGA.

This is how the Senate is broken. It should have prevented Thomas, but on the heels of rejecting Bork there was pressure to confirm, even in the face of Anita Hill’s accusations.

I had never thought about it in this way, but I think you make a good point.

But do you think we want to just hand over the reins to the House alone? Is that gerrymandered situation and state power structure really an improvement? Currently the Senate is the same house while the House is chaos of the MAGA.

I think the US government should be completely overhauled at this point. For example, with respect to gerrymandering, I don’t think we should have states as we do now. There should be some local government, but, for example, we don’t need local real estate law, or state-based diver licenses, etc. Federalize that shit.

So if we didn’t have states as we do now, then we wouldn’t have a senate with two senators per state. Etc. etc. Would a unicameral legislature be better? It hasn’t hurt Nebraska, it would seem. Or maybe we could have an upper house with proportional representation. There are a zillion things to consider.

The solution lies somewhere in transforming the American culture again to drive sanity, restraint, and cooperation. Because without that, e won’t get ejected officials that value those traits.

I think we’ve seen the same lack of sanity around the world, as with Brexit, far-right parties in Europe, etc. So it’s not just a local infection, and I think we should ask ourselves why.

Btw, Slate had an article that describes how Canada has legislative override of judicial decisions, and it seems to work pretty well:

Biden’s Supreme Court Plan Is Missing One Key Piece