I would favor having 2 prospective SCOTUS justices run as running mates of a presidential candidate. Winner gets two SCOTUS justices, and two existing justices step down. That would imply a 22 year term for each justice, if SCOTUS were expanded to 11 justices. There would of course presumably always be retired SCOTUS justices who could fill in for any justice who died in office. Perhaps selected by lot for each case.
“I would favor having 2 prospective SCOTUS justices run as running mates of a presidential candidate.”
Interesting idea, but I’m not sure it would be a good thing, depending on who is elected POTUS. For example, Obama would have brought four new Justices with him in the ‘08 and ‘12 elections...and four others would have had to step down. If the four that had to step down were the more conservative variety, then that would tilt the SCOTUS too far to the left. Or am I missing something in this scenario?