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I would add that if you are a fan of courts protecting minority rights not subject to the whims and abuses of majorities, you should be grateful that judges are
by kepler1 4y ago
I would add that if you are a fan of courts protecting minority rights not subject to the whims and abuses of majorities, you should be grateful that judges are not democratically elected.
- geraneum 4y agoThe worse case is majority rights being subject to the whims and abuses of a minority. Protecting minorities shouldn’t mean that this is ok! P.S. minorities here could mean anything i.e the mega rich, the “legal” cartels, etc.
- bilbo0s 4y agoHow is that "worse"? Abusing any population, is abusing a population. What you just argued is akin to walking into a room full of pregnant high school girls, and declaring one to be the "most" virgin. Besides, the point of the Constitution, is to make it difficult for such things to happen in one direction or another in the political dimension. Which it does pretty well. If you want it to provide protections in the dimension of private economic activity, you can do that, just make an amendment and build a consensus. If this new amendment which you draft to ostensibly protect this "majority", can't build the requisite consensus, then not only is it doubtful that it actually protects a majority, but it also shouldn't be an amendment. That's just democracy since the "majority" you claim to be serving doesn't seem to want the amendment.
- sosull 4y agoThere are twenty-three states where judges all the way up to the State Supreme Court are elected, rather than being appointed. These include partisan elections, nonpartisan elections, and legislative elections. https://ballotpedia.org/Judicial_selection_in_the_states https://ballotpedia.org/Judicial_selection_in_the_states