Idea: Elect Supreme Court Justices

[MarkD]

The reason why our Founding Fathers made the federal judiciary to be politically independent was because that was the only way to ensure that the judges could render their decisions objectively. It's arguable that that original plan is not working, because Presidents are almost always not interested in trying to appoint the most objective interpreters of law to the Supreme Court. But would holding popular elections for Supreme Court Justices actually increase the possibility of us ending up with truly objective interpreters of law? Would most voters actually understand that objectivity is what we need the most?

[MarkD]

I doubt doing this would lead to the Court being any more objective. The reason the federal judiciary is kept isolated from political pressure is so they will have the capacity to be objective -- which, unfortunately, isn't happening. What can we do to make sure the Justices will be objective? I think electing them will make things worse, not better.