Due in large part to the unconstitutional, unprincipled decisions of Chief Justice John Roberts as well as the decrepit nature of RBG prior to her demise, a majority of Americans want to end lifetime appointments for U.S. Supreme Court justices, according to an Ipsos poll for Reuters, though less than half are in favor of other efforts to reform the judiciary.
The national opinion poll recently conducted found that 63% of adults supported term or age limits for Supreme Court justices. Another 22% said they opposed any limits and the rest did not express an opinion.
The poll also found that only 38% would support expanding the size of the court by adding four more justices. Another 42% said they would oppose doing so and the rest were unsure.
Liberal activists and some legal scholars have been pushing for judicial reforms as Republican leaders in Congress built a 5-to-4 conservative Supreme Court majority over the past several years as a result of President Trump successfully installing three picks. Note: Chief Justice Roberts is called “conservative” by the democrats only because he was appointed by George W. Bush, a Republican. Contrarily, the liberals enjoyed having Roberts on their side of the field.
Some democrat lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation to expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices, a move they are trying to convince their voters would restore public confidence in the judicial branch. But the party’s leadership appeared cool to the idea of pursuing that course. And we all know their efforts are simply a ploy to return the Court to a left, liberal bent.
While Congress has the power to change the number of justices who sit on the court, legal scholars believe it would likely require a constitutional amendment to end their lifetime appointments.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online, in English, throughout the United States. The survey gathered responses from 1,003 adults. The results have a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of 4 percentage points.
The poll found that only 49% of Americans have a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of confidence in decisions made by Supreme Court justices. In comparison, 43% of respondents expressed a similar amount of trust in decisions made by the White House and 32% said the same of decisions made by Congress.
What say you Def-Con News readers? Personally, I don’t trust polls. Also personally, I agree with term/age and health limits. And I don’t believe the size of the Court needs to be changed. If I had a vote, though, I’d vote for the “nuclear option.” Specifically, I’d like to shit-can the entire SCOTUS and start over. Perhaps computerize the process, take the human error factor out of the bloody mix.
