Monday, April 23, 2007

Should roster of US Supreme Court be more liquid?

[This post originates at allthingsreform.org on April 18, 2007]


The US Supreme Court has upheld a federal law banning certain late-term abortions. Our highest court had the majority vote in this case from a different makeup of justices than of the court that struck down a similar ban in 2000. This has obviously been a very human, personal and heated issue; who sat on the Supreme Court influenced as much of the decision.

A few decades passed for the large segments of our population driving to move the court in their respective general directions concerning abortion rights. Our society, I believe, has suffered the divisions and hostilities incumbent in that clash of movements. Perhaps our esteemed constitution's lifetime term requirement for all of our US Supreme Court justices should be changed to limited terms, to allow for more liquidity in our highest federal court's controversial decision pattern.

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