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2. An interesting thought: just randomly choose from among the federal appeals court judges

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Jun 24, 2025, 11:19 AM

Jun 24

It would be very different if the Supreme Court merely chose the cases to hear and handled emergency order, but the cases themselves would be heard by randomly assigned appeals court justices.

It can all be done remotely so why not? Just add a couple judges to each appellate court for the extra workload.

Cases would then be heard on merit rather than chosen to be heard based on likely result knowing who's deciding it.

It would upend a lot about how things get done (or not done) at the Supreme Court ....

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"... [Increase] SCOTUS to at least 100 Justices, with randomly selected pools of 9 to hear each case ..." [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 24 OP

Then we will have kacekwl Jun 24 #1

An interesting thought: just randomly choose from among the federal appeals court judges unblock Jun 24 #2