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Why bother with carefully selecting judicial nominees? All we gotta do when we disagree with trial results is to make snap political judgments instead, based on the subjective pressure standards of the mob du jour</>, just like in Europe. Evidence and adversarial proceedings? Who needs those when we have internet activism based on whever can make the most emotional and one sided appeal.

Princess Diana is my new hero.

The system you currently live under was created by “the mob du jour” you keep referring to. Regardless of how stupid you may think the new law is, our system is setup that way. So regardless of how you may feel towards it until the FLSC or SCOTUS overturns it you have to live with it.

Whether you like it or not Terri Schiavo has a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the decision by the FL legislature who derived their powers from the consent of the governed saw to it.

”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”
--Declaration of Independence

And the courts know their duty also.

“In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.”
--U.S. Constitution Article III

It ain’t my fault they had to sware to it.

”The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution”
-- U.S. Constitution Article VI

You don’t agree with the system and that’s fine, because I don’t agree with it always either. Until the bugs are worked out it’s all we’ve got and me and you just have to live with it, but if you don’t like it push to get it changed, it works (sometimes).