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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-May-2022 03:52:26 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   People, not all people but most people, are angry about the wrong thing.
   
   I agree that Roe v Wade being canceled is a bad outcome. I agree that women should have the right to their bodies, but here's my possibly unpopular take:
   
   A Supreme Court that doesn't give a damn what the public wants ... is exactly what a Supreme Court is for, actually.
   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-May-2022 03:59:26 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      The reason we even know the party allegiance of the Justices, the reason there is partisan court seat stacking etc is that the SCOTUS cares too much what the people or rather what the people's representatives think.
      
      It's the politicization of everything. As another example the US appoints some of its District Attorneys by popular vote and that's just super weird for a role that is supposed to be administrative, meritocratic, bureaucratic.
   2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 14-May-2022 08:49:40 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @clacke
      
      > A Supreme Court that doesn't give a damn what the public wants ... is exactly what a Supreme Court is for, actually.
      
      I agree.
      
      > the reason there is partisan court seat stacking etc is that the SCOTUS cares too much what the people or rather what the people's representatives think.
      
      I disagree. It is that absent support for the ruling party's "correct" interpretations, a court nominee will not be confirmed.
      
      > It's the politicization of everything.
      
      Correct. And, as we know, politics ruins everything it touches.
      
      > the US appoints some of its District Attorneys by popular vote and that's just super weird for a role that is supposed to be administrative, meritocratic, bureaucratic.
      
      Yes, I agree. The DA role is normally at county-level, so each county that does this should reconsider, including #Los_Angeles County in #SoCal. On the other hand, one has no idea what sort of back-room deals would be made in an appointed DA situation. But overall, I think appointment would be better.
   3. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 14-May-2022 13:47:32 EDT Bob Jonkman

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      "A Supreme Court that doesn't give a damn what the public wants ... is exactly what a Supreme Court is for, actually."
      
      True enough. But elected representatives in government *are* supposed to do what people want, that's why they get elected. If they had fulfilled their obligations to actually represent the citizens' wants then the Supreme Court wouldn't have to act at all.
      
      It all boils down to a need for #ProportionalRepresentation with multi-member districts so all views are represented in goverment.
      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-May-2022 22:43:37 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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         @Bob Jonkman Oh yes. I remember that this is your cause and I fully endorse it. Which model of proportional representation do you think works best if you have the choice?
         
         And which one would you give the best chance to succeed as a target for reform, in Canada and the US respectively?