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Term limits-say 15 years. The selection process needs to be de-politicalized. Have a ready pool of extremely well qualified candidates and then select them by lottery. Being seated politically as they are now-they stay political- far from being blind justice. Justice is blind. As blind as you can get it. American Justices are inclined to have 20/20 vision.

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The Big Picture ran a piece (a Q&A with Term Limit the Court) that gets into this question. They are proposing 18 years, but they have a good argument to make!

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Works for me.

Nine justices are selected at random. Similar to the three judges appeal courts. Should one judge be unavailable then there are still nine to decide an issue.

A supreme court Inspector General to investigate questions of ethics.

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Expand the court. You will never depoliticize the court until membership in right wingnut organizations like The Federalist Society becomes disqualifying, and fraudulent and invented premises like "money = speech" are no longer the law of the land.

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And approval by the ABA is the pure litmus test?

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Who selects the pool and how is it not political?

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This is how we should select our presidents, too! Instead of 15 year terms, though, how about 6 and out? No 8 years of too much, and no 4 years of too little? What do you think??

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I like it because it takes money out of it....it's how we should select applicants to elite schools...from a pool with a cut off average say of 75 % grade average. Selecting the pool for the presidency would be more challenging but it could be done....certainly the chances of a TRUMP being pooled out of a decent pooling would be lower. It would take charisma and marketing out of the presidential selection too.

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I agree! I've long thought about writing a book called The Lottery, where any qualified voter is subject to becoming president. (A lottery is required because no sane American will step forward to run.) The result could be most entertaining! Got the idea from the movie/series Designated Survivor.

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