SCROTUS

Hey,  did you catch any of that Supreme Court confirmation hearing last week?  I had a rare political moment and tuned in for a few moments.  I got initially confused.   Was this already the season premiere of SNL?   Did I miss a week or two?

Yep, the proceedings were that comical with the loopy Democrats bloviating ad nauseum over a conservative nominee.   Just like the loopy Republicans do when the new nominee is a liberal.

Is this country an embarrassment or what?   And people wonder why I rarely pay attention to the news these days.

Amidst all the two-party histrionics which has pretty much doomed our country's long term survival, I still have the same contention I have always help with regard to...ahem...SCROTUS.

My big issue with the US Supreme Court is its basic concept.  

Hello?  It doesn't work anymore as it was originally designed.  It's now nothing more than a fight you would see on MSNBC or Fox News.  A reality show in black robes.  A big competition.  And, when a ruling is handed down, the score is reported like it's on ESPN.

5-4.  Oh, good, Clarence Thomas must have hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth.

Once this clown car of nine became a political operative, the whole, civilized process was doomed.  It started back in the 30s when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt figured out that he could start to stack the deck the way he wanted to with his justice appointments.  And, this has continued on in a taffy pull of political bias to this very day.  I laugh at all the numbskulls who were euphoric about the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage.  These same dummies were condemning the same process back in 2001 when they effectively made the second George Bush President.  

Trust me, knuckleheads, the Supreme Court was broken then and it is broken now.  

In Len's world, the Supreme Court exists in a completely different fashion.  You want nine Justices overseeing the tenets of the US Constitution?  Fine.  But it should only continue in this manner.

No more life time terms.  I mean, let's face it, we were hearing that Ruth Bader Ginsberg was dying back in 2010.  Yet there she sits.  Taking up space at an advance age and probably incontinent, to boot.  Nope, Len's thought is you get 12 year terms.  And out.

In Len's world, these Justices are voted in by national election.   Don't we already vote for local and county judges who we have no idea who they are in the first place?   Why can't we do that for six of the Justice spots?

Why six, Len?  Because, in my utopian universe, there can be no more than three liberal and three conservative judges.  That way, they can get their opinions but they essentially cancel each other out.  Done.

The whole Supreme Court is shepherded by three Chief Justices, culled from the ranks of the legal specter but avowed independents.  No political affiliations whatsoever.  Those people are rare, but they do exist.  Heck, I'm one of them, but all my legal experience was developed by watching Perry Mason reruns on Me TV.  

Is this at all possible?  I think so.  And, until the day comes when we make this crucial change to the Supreme Court, we are all chuckleheads.  For letting this travesty of a court to continue.

Meanwhile, is Ruth Bader Ginsberg still alive???????

Dinner last night:  Salad.