@dauphin87 I wonder about that too. Joyce has been increasingly giving a liberal slant to her opinions, albeit rooted in objective law. You can see fire in her eyes now when she voices her objections to some of the crazy maneuvering of Trumpists.

@danielbsmith Yes, 13 would correspond to the number of federal districts, the way 9 used to. But having a random selection of 8 justices presents a potential problem, since everything they do now is in secret, and having the 9th be from the district the case originated from would increase the district shopping currently going on.

My modest proposal to fix SCOTUS: Add 4 justices to at least dilute the partisanship and corruption and establish a term limit of 20 years for active service, after which the Justice would enter “senior” status, still get paid, and able to sub in when there’s a temporary vacancy, but not be an active member of the Court. Both these changes would theoretically not require a Constitutional amendment. But of course, a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate would still be needed to pass them.

@1Firewire Yeah, a self-policing, non-binding ethics code should work, right? SCOTUS doesn’t really care about consequences. What consequences? They’re SUPREME! Nothing can touch them. The only solution is to expand the Court so at least the partisanship and corruption can be diluted.

As predicted, the Biden administration is being criticized for no evacuation effort for U.S. citizens in Sudan. Another Afghanistan is the charge. Despite the government warning Americans to get out of Sudan months ago.

@IslandNewsService A friend of mine grew up on Tybee Island. Never been there, but have visited Isle of Palms and currently live on Oak Island, N.C.

Thanks for the welcome and tips, guys! I’ll work on it

I’m new here and don’t know how to navigate the site. I’m told to pin the Community Firehose column, but I don’t see any columns, other than when I first signed up and decided to wait before sel3cting any.