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Chicago's favorite smarty pants judge says the Supreme Court should have 19 members, not 9.
Whoever could U.S. Appellate Court Judge Richard Posner have in mind to fill the extra spots?
Probably not himself – he thinks all judges should retire at 80.
"Mediocre and highly politicized," was the opinion the 78-year-old jurist gave of the justices who sit in D.C. during a recent talk at the University of Chicago.
"We have a very crappy judicial system."
Posner — the most highly cited legal scholar of the 20th century, according to the Journal of Legal Studies — repeated his complaint that politicians are more concerned with appointing "tokens" such as women or Hispanic justices, and with would-be justices' politics than they are with merit.
"If you had 19 members you would inevitably have more diversity," he told Prof. Luigi Zingales during the talk. Posner, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, said no president since Herbert Hoover has appointed a Supreme Court justice who "was not in either his personal or his political interest."
Posner says 'highly politicized' Supreme Court should grow to 19 justices
I don't care what anybody says, I love this guy.
Whoever could U.S. Appellate Court Judge Richard Posner have in mind to fill the extra spots?
Probably not himself – he thinks all judges should retire at 80.
"Mediocre and highly politicized," was the opinion the 78-year-old jurist gave of the justices who sit in D.C. during a recent talk at the University of Chicago.
"We have a very crappy judicial system."
Posner — the most highly cited legal scholar of the 20th century, according to the Journal of Legal Studies — repeated his complaint that politicians are more concerned with appointing "tokens" such as women or Hispanic justices, and with would-be justices' politics than they are with merit.
"If you had 19 members you would inevitably have more diversity," he told Prof. Luigi Zingales during the talk. Posner, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, said no president since Herbert Hoover has appointed a Supreme Court justice who "was not in either his personal or his political interest."
Posner says 'highly politicized' Supreme Court should grow to 19 justices
I don't care what anybody says, I love this guy.
