Reply #6: Every four years a bipartisan panel whose majority -- [View All]

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-- members represent the out-of-White-House party should nominate judges as positions become open.

For example, beginning this year with the GOP in the White House, Lee Hamilton would chair the panel. The GOP leader would be John Danforth. Other members of the panel would be of both parties and of high reputation. In other words, George Mitchell and not Zell Miller; Tom Keane and not Jesse Helms.

As the Greens and other parties gain prominence, their members would be added to the panel as well.

A seasoned & reasoned bipartisan panel would not nominate the racist bigots that Dubya is trying to shoe-horn into judicial posts; the country would not be divided on "activist judges" and other right-wing memes; and the resulting field of judicial candidates would round the edges of the ideological split in the courts.

Would it work?