Yeah, exactly, there should be more transparency and accountability, even though it saddens me. I’m glad you replied again. I follow supreme court rulings and have done so since the 1980s. Historically, in my lifetime, the Supreme Court made surprising decisions in the past. Now, not so much. Pretty much now you can predict how they’re going to rule based on the political bent of the case in question. It didn’t use to be that way. So, yeah, I agree with you. Maybe the job of Supreme Court justice needs to have a term limit and not until you’re dead limit.

I don’t think it has to do with the system of government. I think it has more to do with how undeserving individuals don’t take their jobs seriously. The job of supreme court justice is to uphold the constitution. The newer appointees of Republican presidents do not do their job as they are supposed to. They just decide based on their personal opinions without examining the law and the proceedings. You can pretty much predict what the supreme court will decide before any lawyers start arguing their case based on the topic at hand. There’s no intellectual interpretation of the constitution here. It’s just whatever they “feel” about it.

I guess we just have to wait for some of these supreme court justices to drop dead or retire and hope for the best. I’m not surprised, given how the supreme court is stacked right now. I think it’s sad that the supreme court is all about politics now. These conservative justices don’t even bother reading the constitution much. They might not even know it inside and out at all. I have the sensation that they kind of just decide before hearing the case based on their political position or personal opinion. After formulating their predetermined opinion they scan the constitution briefly to see what might fit with their opinion and just try to make it all fit together in a weak way. Why bother presenting a case if it isn’t even going to be considered? They’ve already made up their mind before the proceedings.