The Supreme Court needs to be removed from politics.
The purpose behind life appointment of federal judges was to remove Article III as much as possible from the ever-changing winds of politics. It was to ensure that the judiciary responded to the People fairly, justly, equally according to and under the law. It's purpose is also, where necessary, to tell the other two branches that they are off their rocker.
The Supreme Court is no different. It is the final court of recourse for We the People. But We the People have no right to have the final court respond to our petitions, complaints, claims. What Americans either forget (or more likely never knew) is that no one has a right to have the Supreme Court hear their case. The Court itself decides what it will hear.
And the reason for that is because statutes say sonot the Constitution. Since the Judiciary Act of 1925, the decision to take a case or not to take a case has been entirely and solely up to the Court itself.
Think about that.
The Constitution does not limit the cases the Court reviews.
A statute that is nearly 100 years old does.
The practical reason is that the Supreme Court is too small to handle the number of cases that ask the Court for review.
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