Judges should have 2 year terms and so should senators.
Followed by two year prison terms.
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Well said!
If judges want to legislate from the bench. Then they should be subject to the voters like legislators.
Exactly. All over the nation right now the legal fraternity is acting with vengeance, that is with Ego, with vindictiveness, to prove they are the "law," exclusively.
But each and every one of us must live by, agree to, and hence understand, the law. Ignorance is, I believe, no excuse. Judges and lawyers, those who specialize in the "law" are every bit as corruptible and humanly fallible as anyone else on this forum or on this planet. It is demonstrated regularly.
Hence in an egalitarian society there can be NO better option than the choice of the people, no matter how flawed. In a court of "law" one can certainly pay to have a prostitute lawyer speak or research, and a Judge sit as a referee, but there can be no more fair and egalitarian judgement than by a jury of citizen peers. (Lawyers hated the OJ Simpson result). That's simply the way it humanly must be, and it is the ancient Greeks who first came to that conscious realization.
Sandra Day O'Conner here is simply showing her Ego and personal bigotry. This whole contemporary US scenario is exactly tantamount to the RC heirarchy before the Reformation; "they" were the ones to issue judgement, us commoners must not interpret the Latin, and it should not made accessible (by vernacular translation).
One of the major bigotries behind the orchestrated hate of GWB was that he was not a lawyer. And of course the United States has multiple times more lawyers per capita than any other country, and look at our Congress. They need to feed.
I agree that regular frequent election of Justices can also be problematic, but the Iowa amendment seems masterfully reasonable. I wish it also applied in the US Constitution. The Founders may have made a mistake here, but that is a different argument and concerns the moral/ideological background in which they operated.
Johnny Suntrade, the Suntrade Institute