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This stuff is true in the US to some extent.
by shagmin 1y ago
This stuff is true in the US to some extent.
- whimsicalism 1y agono it's not, but i get that it's "in" to hate on the US political structure. essentially all federal cases are randomly assigned
- shagmin 1y agoI don't think it's widespread by any means but the US Supreme Court has been directly pulled into this exact topic. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/21/g-s1-28919/supreme-court-judge-shopping https://www.npr.org/2024/10/21/g-s1-28919/supreme-court-judg... https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/judge-shopping-explained https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/judg... https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/03/27/judge-shopping-explainer/ https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/03/27/judge-shopping-expl...
- whimsicalism 1y agothis is more describing circuit shopping, which is a far cry from what OP is suggesting
- Yeul 1y agoIn my country judges don't get elected. They pretty much sit in their ivory tower and fuck up anyone they want. Which is part of the reason why the Netherlands is not a superpower.
- dragonwriter 1y agoJudges don't get elected in the US (except for some state and local judges) and yet the US is a superpower. I don't think judicial selection plays a major factor in determining superpower status. Can you name any country that has ever been a superpower where judges (of the national judiciary if it has separate judiciaries for constituent parts from the national one) were predominantly democratically elected?
- nhinck2 1y agohttps://www.cigionline.org/articles/why-east-texas-ground-zero-settling-patent-cases/ https://www.cigionline.org/articles/why-east-texas-ground-ze...
- whimsicalism 1y agoI do think this is a great counterexample, but it is largely a bug in the law specific to patents that was closed in 2017. Even then, IIUC on appeal your case would still be randomized.