Ted Cruz, obviously not happy with the recent Supreme Court rulings on Obamacare and gay marriage, thinks he has the solution to solving the Court’s judicial activism problems — a constitutional amendment that mandates periodic judicial-retention elections for SCOTUS justices.
He writes at National Review Online:
Judicial retention elections have worked in states across America; they will work for America. In order to provide the people themselves with a constitutional remedy to the problem of judicial activism and the means for throwing off judicial tyrants, I am proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution that would subject the justices of the Supreme Court to periodic judicial-retention elections. Every justice, beginning with the second national election after his or her appointment, will answer to the American people and the states in a retention election every eight years. Those justices deemed unfit for retention by both a majority of the American people as a whole and by majorities of the electorates in at least half of the 50 states will be removed from office and disqualified from future service on the Court.
Thoughts?
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