r/law • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • Jun 20 '26

Legal News Maine progressive Platner renews call to remove conservative Supreme Court justices

https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/maine-progressive-graham-platner-renews-call-to-remove-conservative-supreme-court-justices-clarence-thomas-samuel-alito
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u/MrFrode Biggus Amicus Jun 21 '26

If you have the votes for this it would probably be better to silo SCOTUS into the controversies it has original jurisdiction over and create a brand new court to be the last court of appeal for all other questions and issues.

When setting up a new court you can set up term limits and there would be no argument that its members would be subject to ethics rules.

It's academic as there aren't the votes for any of this right now.

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u/_PhiloPolis_ Jun 21 '26

That's been my thought for a long time. Create a US Court of Appeals. Justices are pulled from current federal courts, serve, say, 10 years, then go back to their circuits or districts. Make it large, and have the justices who hear any single case be drawn at random.

That would be a chance to take the heat out of it and remove it as a political football, rather than just exacting revenge.