# The GOP seating ANY Supreme Court Justice this year would permanently & irrevocably destroy politics

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**Created:** [May 8, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-seating-any-supreme-court-justice-this-year-would-permanently-irrevocably-destroy-politics/853436 "2020-05-08T21:09:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-seating-any-supreme-court-justice-this-year-would-permanently-irrevocably-destroy-politics/853436/3 "2020-05-08T21:33:29Z")

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I think the SCOTUS’s reputation is already done. It’s already quite obviously just another political branch of the government – right now it’s a GOP branch. With luck maybe it will become a Democratic branch at some point, if the process to pick SCOTUS justices isn’t fixed. But there’s no chance of it resuming its role as a fair and objective arbiter of law and the Constitution unless there’s a huge change to the process of how justices are chosen.

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