[xzins]

I don't mind it being a constitutional amendment.

However, I think the real problem is life-tenure and appointment of Scotus and other justices.

I'm in favor of a constitutional amendment in which we change to an elective judiciary with a 6 year renewable term. They are acting on political whim anymore, anyway. They might as well face political consequences.

The people can decide their judges as well as they can decide their other officials.

[fiscally_right]

The point of the judiciary is to be a check on the other branches of government.. If the supreme court was elected in the same way as the other branches, it would lose that power. The judiciary exists because there needs to be a branch that is free from the corruptive influences that political pandering and lobbying and campaigning bring. The injustice done by the Judiciary being too powerful would be dwarfed by the injustice of weakening it.