 | Re: How can FOAVC plan to grow and fulfull its mission? |
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Use the online tool by Judge Brennan and get enough people involved so that it is forced to aggregate people by congressional district. To have a real chance of success, we need to identify a majority of congressional districts in 38 states (for ratification purposes) and have more activists engaged than the partisan committees of the majority party (of course, we could use some of the same activists - depending on the party). We also need proposals that stand out as being worthy of a convention. In other words, big ideas. Contrary to popular belief in these circles - damaging equal protection rights of minorities (gays, immigrants, women) is not a worthy goal or a big idea - so we need to tread lightly when dealing with amendments regarding the courts. Regional government, with regional VPs appointing judges at the District and Appeallate levels and a "regional seat" for each region on a 7 member SCOTUS (with the chief selected by the membership without replacement), is probably as close as we can get to judicial reform. I wouldn't mess with lifetime tenure too much. Indeed, imposing tenure may mean older judges, not younger. |