Category: We The Pupil

Reamed Supremed

SCOTUS or Supreme Court Of The United States is now more akin to Supreamed Court Rumplicans Of The Unhinged Magas or SCROTUM.

Honor has been benched. A clear indication that our government is not currently geared to work efficiently and judiciously of-by-for We The People.

So now from a time and land not so very far away, setting the stage for a new court of play . . . introducing . . .

The Supremiums

Improvements must be made to ensure that the US Supreme Court remains a separate and independent branch of government that presides honorably for the betterment in the course of human events.

• increase amount of serving justices
  • a good proposed current starting number is to have thirteen justices presiding
  • number of justices could be a percentage of total lower supreme courts with a proviso to bump up or down to an odd number
  • if number of justices fall below a certain percentage of maximum number, hearings may be suspended
• all justices subject to term limits
• a determining factor for term limits could be a floor function formula that utilizes the number of maximum justices
  • ( justices ( justices + 1 ) / 2 ) / justices = term limit in years
  • (9(9+1)/2)/9 = term limit 5 years
  • (13(13+1)/2)/13 = 7 years
  • (21(21+1)/2)/21 = 11 years
• current terms prior to imposed limits are counted toward new limits
  • if the new limit is seven years and a sitting justice has served six years then that justice has one more year on the bench
  • if a sitting justice has served eight years, they are immediately removed.
• justices are nominated in the following order by:
  • House of Representatives
    • Minority House
      • or half through random drawing
  • House of Representatives
    • Majority House
      • or half through random drawing
  • Senate
    • Minority
      • or half through random drawing
  • Senate
    • Majority
      • or half through random drawing
  • Executive Branch
  • Repeat the previous five branch parcels
  • All nominations will be made in order of branch parcels and will not advance in sequence until nomination of branch parcel has been approved. No Filibuster will be allowed to stall nomination, hearing, disapproval~approval, appointment process.
• when courts below the US Supreme Court have ruled
  • the rulings are taken into consideration for what percentage of US Supreme Court justices must rule to overturn lower courts—up to 100%
    • otherwise lower courts create standing precedent imposed upon US Supreme Court
    • percentage possibly determined through formula
      • formula may differ across types of cases; civil, criminal, murder, insurrection
• with established precedents, such as with the Voting Rights Act, a greater percentage—likely 100%—of US SC Justices must be met in order to overturn precedent.

The US Constitution is the Supreme Law of The Land for the United States of America. As such it must be understood with integrity, interpreted with empathy, enforced with honor.