spending of taxpayers money

A few salaries will not make a single difference. If you want to find savings, then drop the defense budget and stop funding Israel.

6 years is a terrible idea. It would allow even 1-term Presidents to select a majority of the justices and get whatever they want, and a 2-term President to appoint every seat.

18 years is correct. It's the shortest term that doesn't allow a 2-term President to appoint a majority of the justices (resignationsand draths notwithstanding).

waste of taxpayers money

lol like that is the problem here

You want more justices so they hear more cases, it's like 80% of cases requesting supreme Court review never see the Supreme Court because they say they don't have the time and their caseload is too high.

The reason term limits aren’t good for the SC is because the constitution shouldn’t be something that changes with the political spectrum. It also prevents them from receiving being targeted or retaliated against for their decisions. It’s supposed to be hard for them to change and redefine the law. What they’re doing now is an abomination. There’s nothing wrong with the way the SC is set up. It’s filled with facists is the problem.

Which computer program?

One of theany AIs? All run by Techo Libertarian jackhole conservarives?

Computer programs don't inherently remove bias. If anything, they obfuscate it. We wouldn't have less gerrymandering from a computer program, we'd have more. We could require absolutely open and transparent code and data, and that still wouldn't be enough because the manipulations would be performed right in the open for everyone to see, but it would be 'okay' because it's not illegal. Much like our current system allows for gerrymandering for political purposes, this wouldn't address the issue, it would just make hiding and obfuscating the reasoning easier.

And as for electing supreme Court judges, if you thought presidential elections and political ads were bad now, it would be 100 times worse if we have to put up with political ads for judges on top of that. It would put more money in politics which is absolutely the wrong direction to go. We need a bigger, more representative supreme Court. We need more courts in general, and more judges to get through the cases that are already in the backlog. Your proposals would exacerbate our existing issues, not help us.

More Supreme Court justices is more spending of taxpayers money.

fucking hilarious. we spend > 2.5 BILLION per DAY pretending to be the biggest asshole on the planet. a few more justices would amount to 'functionally zero', just like that argument.

In other news, Republican Congress mandates all states to use Grok, "MechaHitler" to redraw congressional districts.

/s

Six years is too short a term. I think you want a longer term length, because you want change to happen, just not all at once. The real problem with the SCOTUS is that it's all up to chance when a spot opens up, and since appointments are currently lifetime appointments if you get a judge on the court who is in their 40's they could serve 40+ years. Republicans were able to engineer a Majority on the Court, in spite of only holding the Presidency for six years since 2008.

If we had term limits, though, then SCOTUS seats would come up for appointment regularly. The impact of filling one sudden vacancy isnt as great if each President was guaranteed to be able to nominate a few every term.

If the Court stays at 9, I would be in favor of 18 year terms. Or, we could increase to 13, and make the terms 13 years. Both scenarios with strict one-term limits. This makes it so a one-term President can't nominate enough judges to totally remake a court, and if would take about a decade for the Court to really turn over to the point that it might make different rulings.

The courts are overloaded. Increasing the number a of all levels of judges would be a good idea in general.

Outvoting corrupt insane people on the supreme court is just a bonus.