Your Ideal Supreme Court Makeup (Liberal/Conservative axis)

[Fawlty]

With the recent development of a strongly conservative court, I'm interested in what flavor of court people would choose if they could, and why.

Personally, I would be happy with a court made up of any of the three middle options. I got used to a Supreme Court that leaned conservative with significant overlap, and I thought that was okay. I don't think this court is going to be okay.

Please feel welcome to discuss other important ways the makeup of the court (like originalism vs. non-originalism) might be idealized.

 

[TheComebackKid]

Dylon....Dylon, Dylon, Dylon and Dylon

 

[Ripskater]

Strong conservative court is necessary to reverse the leftist agenda of the last president. Our borders need protected, the lgbtq agenda needs to be shut down and we need religious freedom and 2nd amendment protected after Obama

 

[bobgeese]

Strong conservative.

 

[panamaican]

My ideal supreme court makeup would be indifferent to liberal and conservative and just interpret the law based on the cases in front of them and adherence to constitutional principles.

 

[Iceberg Slim]

should be added to the poll

 

[bobgeese]

My ideal supreme court makeup would be indifferent to liberal and conservative and just interpret the law based on the cases in front of them and adherence to constitutional principles.

Isn’t that what a conservative judge is (at least ideally)?


FFS a large portion of the left would burn the constitution in a heartbeat.

 

[panamaican]

Isn’t that what a conservative judge is (at least ideally)?


FFS a large portion of the left would burn the constitution in a heartbeat.

Society changes, norms change, laws change, legal principles should stay consistent. A good judge should be able to interpret how to apply the traditional legal principles to a changing society. A bad conservative judge tries to prevent social change through the law. A bad liberal judge tries to force social change the same way.

You don't want a conservative or a liberal judge. You want a judge that understands the legal principles that underpin our government AND understands how society itself is evolving. That judge should make rulings that allow the people to understand how the old principles apply to the new society.

 

[Squarechoke]

Not as relevant to me as I'm not living in the US, but I'd prefer a Supreme Court that just has competent people with no political affiliations, not allowing laws to be twisted by agendas.

Writing laws will naturally be political, but the interpretation of law should not.

 

[Diamond Jim]

The court should look like the country. It shouldn’t be strongly conservative or strongly liberal.

 

[machidafan99]

Four Libertarians & Five Nader's Raiders

 

[Witchhunt]

My ideal supreme court makeup would be indifferent to liberal and conservative and just interpret the law based on the cases in front of them and adherence to constitutional principles.

I feel tears welling up Pan. So simple, so beautiful.

 

[panamaican]

As a follow up to my above post, this is why it's important that Supreme Court Justices come from a background that gave them insight into where society is. You don't want justices who are out of touch with society because then it becomes harder for them to bring broad perspectives to their understanding of the society that they are applying legal principles to.

 

[Rational Poster]

Strong conservative court is necessary to reverse the leftist agenda of the last president. Our borders need protected, the lgbtq agenda needs to be shut down and we need religious freedom and 2nd amendment protected after Obama

Illegal immigration went down under Obama, you can't stop people from being gay, you have religious freedom, and Obama didn't change a single gun law.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

My ideal supreme court makeup would be indifferent to liberal and conservative and just interpret the law based on the cases in front of them and adherence to constitutional principles.

This. The poll does not have any answer that fits my view. I think the Court is abused when it is used to enact policy. We have a legislature for that.

 

[Deleted member 484047]

Four Scalias. Four Ginsburgs. One Kennedy.

8 of the sharpest legal minds the court has ever seen and a moderate swing vote.

 

[Falsedawn]

The court should look like the country. It shouldn’t be strongly conservative or strongly liberal.

If the court looked like the country, it would lean liberal by a noticable amount, and at least one of the nominally "conservative" judges would vote liberal about 85% of the time.

 

[Jack V Savage]

Dylon....Dylon, Dylon, Dylon and Dylon

Never gets old.

 

[LMP]

Now that Google is freed up from its military A.I. program, we can get them to develop A.I. to replace the Supreme Court. I think it will work out well.

 

[ChillBroBaggins]

If a conservative court had actual contingencies to deal with issues like global warming and the incoming Robotics/AI fields, where rampant growth needs to be curtailed and structured, sure. But the conservative courts are more concerned with eliminating Roe v Wade. I'm more concerned about the military building killer drone swarms.