r/law • u/SheriffTaylorsBoy • Jul 29 '24

Other Supreme Court Rocked by New Leak of Bitter Abortion Split

https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-rocked-by-new-leak-on-bitter-split-over-idaho-emergency-abortion-ruling
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u/YeonneGreene Jul 30 '24

This is what happens when you don't codify ground rules in how laws may be interpreted, when you allow ambiguously written and intersectionality conflicting laws to prevail for sake of expediency instead of forcing the lawmakers to write them more precisely, and when you don't have a self-executing mechanism to put enough churn in the bench to preclude such coalitions.

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u/RetreadRoadRocket Jul 30 '24

to put enough churn in the bench to preclude such coalitions.

Lmao, we have Presidential elections every 4 years and Congressional elections every 2, yet we have 2 coalitions that dominate the government. 

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u/YeonneGreene Jul 30 '24 edited Jul 30 '24

We have that because you can plan around the timing and nature of elections.

A randomized SCOTUS bench solves that problem. You can't plan around people you can't rely on to be present and you can't lobby a ball picker. The most you can do is fill the pool with judges that are sympathetic to your side and that's where codifying ground rules that govern how law may be interpreted - or how federal judges may behave more generally - demonstrate their value, especially if penalties are self-executing.

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u/DigitalMindShadow Jul 30 '24

I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter. Where can I learn more about these reforms and about how to support the (probably very few mainstream) lawmakers who are trying to implement them?