While I agree with most of what you've said I have a problem with that reasoning.1. Abolish lifetime tenure for federal judges by amending Article III, Section I of the Constitution.
Lifetime appointments make the process as free from partisan politics as possible. There is no way a judge can rule in good faith knowing he could be removed per a decision he might make. Most of the re-establishment of our basic freedoms resulted from jurists courage to make decisions based on the rule of law, not the fear, ignorance, and hate of the people.
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I believe a judge's ruling should be predicated on innate awareness of the will of the People rather than on his/her personal sense of right and wrong. If two thirds of the People believe there should be a death penalty a good judge will have the acuity to know that and will rule accordingly. The judge who opposes that will is better suited for journalism or theology than judiciary.
I am less interested in a judge's personal courage than in his/her willingness to serve the will of the People. The Law, the courts and the judiciary are a mechanism, not a divinity.
And if the "will of the people" includes the need to lynch anybody of a different race who looks at a woman of my race? A father who kills his daughter because she dated a young man of a different faith?
A nation of laws is a better place to live than a nation of mob rule.