The opposite is true because if judges have to please the electorate they will not be able to give judgments that may make them unpopular. They will not be able to risk antagonising the electorate, without fear or favour.
Term limits on Supreme Court justices would go a long way as well. Knowing they can't be removed for any reason has emboldened them to the point that they are now making laws instead of interpreting them.
“Very early in her married life he had decided, though perhaps it was only that he knew her more intimately than he knew most people, that she had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered”
They’re the same people that looks at the US’ healthcare system that bankrupts half a million people and lets people die for want of basic medicine and think we should have that too.
Define common sense Isabel?
Usually, when one hasn’t got or can prove a credible argument, they end saying, ‘Well, it’s common sense!!’
No such thing as common sense.
Recent English immigrant to Dubai Isabel Oakeshott - aka "Axis Sally of the Home Counties" - evidently doesn't know that judges in the UK uphold laws that are made by members of Parliament (MPs) who are *elected * by citizens #DontBuyTheTelegraph
State court judges by far are more political im their decisions because they are always worried about reelection. Lifetime appointments or at least lengthy appointments are by far better.
We all know what the fash mean when they say "common sense" 🙄
Call me a soppy liberal, but I would rather we had judges who made decisions based on accurate interpretation of the law, rather than on what the average Wetherspoons boor would say after reading a misleading Daily Mail headline.
This only works if we know their decisions. In Georgia, we vote for judges but since we don't know most of their rulings we can't say who is worth keeping. Nothing changes if we don't have an informed electorate.
On the other hand, making judgeships elected positions could mean that the judges might be inclined to make decisions based on popular opinion instead of the law.
Double-edged sword. Both have good points and bad points. Appointed judges could be ideal, assuming the law appropriately.
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Maybe she should try and write something similar about where she actually lives now?
- George Orwell, 1984
Special kind of stupid.
One people, one empire, one leader.
Britain above all" 🤮
Usually, when one hasn’t got or can prove a credible argument, they end saying, ‘Well, it’s common sense!!’
No such thing as common sense.
Call me a soppy liberal, but I would rather we had judges who made decisions based on accurate interpretation of the law, rather than on what the average Wetherspoons boor would say after reading a misleading Daily Mail headline.
Double-edged sword. Both have good points and bad points. Appointed judges could be ideal, assuming the law appropriately.
*end of brain fart*
That is how the Criminal GOP captured US politics,