Time to Consider the Direct Election of the Supreme Court

[JCMach1]

Yes, it would take a Constitutional Amendment, but hear me out. The advise and consent power has become partisan outside of any democratic process. We the people, quite literally, don't get a say. Imagine some of the possibilities:

-Expand the number of Justices
-Direct popular vote in non-partisan races the first November after a vacancy emerges.
-Retention votes every 4 years on Presidential cycle for all justices.
-limitations on age, before the bar, etc.

The Supreme Court was designed to be Conservative and elitist. Can we please to away with this non-democratic institution already?

[Meadowoak]

1. We need a larger more diverse court, it should include LGBT, athiest, black, Hispanic, single parent

And nobody wealthy.

[JCMach1]

2. Let the American people decide

and diversity will follow...

[Meadowoak]

3. Exactly.

[MichMary]

4. No

-Retention votes every 4 years on Presidential cycle for all justices. Good grief, no! Can you imagine how that would have gone in 1980, 1984, etc?

-Direct popular vote in non-partisan races the first November after a vacancy emerges.
Also, no. We have enough of a problem getting our voters out to the polls for non-presidential elections. This would virtually guarantee a Republican-leaning court.

[JCMach1]

5. details are flexible... the system we have now is NOT democratic

Why should we keep it?

Senators were not directly elected under the Constitution... did we keep that?

[struggle4progress]

6. +

[NightWatcher]

7. Because electing a president went so well for us this time