Amend the Constitution so that the Congress,not the President, selects candidates for the Supreme Court. Presidents have tended to choose political extremists, so the Court will lean right or left. The Justices should not be chosen based on political leanings, and a Justice cannot be truly independent of the President who appoints him/her. The Justices, in part, preserve our Constitutional protections. They can't
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Amend the Constitution so that the Congress,not the President, selects candidates for the Supreme Court. Presidents have tended to choose political extremists, so the Court will lean right or left. The Justices should not be chosen based on political leanings, and a Justice cannot be truly independent of the President who appoints him/her. The Justices, in part, preserve our Constitutional protections. They can't do that effectively if they're political appointees. They should be selected by Congressional panels composed of equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats, with a deadline of 90 days to select candidates to fill vacancies in the Court. This would make it more likely that Justices would be moderate, no bias to left or right, and that would make for a more effective Court, in which the citizens could have faith that the Court's decisions were driven by an unbiased interpretation of Constitutional protections and not by politics. This would also apply to judges of the lower federal courts: no political appointments.
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