Is the current system for selecting Supreme Court Justices up to par? What if instead of our current system, every President instead got to pick two Supreme Court seats? This very interesting opinion published at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School, a “bipartisan law and public policy institute”,  was written by Alicia Bannon, managing director of the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program:

A number of promising ideas are likely to be on the table, from term limits, to expanding the number of justices, to partisan balance requirements. Each of these proposals warrants close study, but there are also other transformative ideas that have gotten little attention. If I had to pick one, it would be this: regardless of the Court’s size, give each president exactly two seats to fill per four-year term that expire if left unused. Such a system could help to defuse the intense politicization that now surrounds every nomination and risks real damage to the Court’s long-term public legitimacy.

The Supreme Court confirmation process clearly needs reform. Most recently — and notoriously — Republican senators lurched from blocking Merrick Garland’s confirmation in 2016, claiming that it was too close to the presidential election, to rushing through a vote for Justice Amy Coney Barrett mere days before the 2020 election. It was an exercise in raw politics that cemented a conservative super-majority on the Court.

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