Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.

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    if you had some means of removing judges who can’t even pretend to be impartial.

    Could you not imagine all the ways today’s Republicans would try to abuse that against aby democrats appointed justice that ruled against some of the blatantly unconstitutional craziness they have tried to pull?

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      Man it’s really exhausting having to ask “how would Republicans abuse this?” every time a change is proposed.

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      I mean, they’re already abusing the system we already have. It’s just trading out a known abuse for the potential of a unknown abuse. At least in the latter there would be some way for somewhat normal people to influence it.

      Despite what most people the vast majority of lawyers are pretty liberal. There’s only a couple of right leaning law schools in the US, they just have an oversized influence because they’re basically all the ivy league.