Does anyone here feel as I do, that we have essentially lost the courts?

[Desert Dem]

[virgogal]

1. No. We have been playing "musical chairs" with the courts

for years......hang in there.

[at140]

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[sinkingfeeling]

2. Yes.

[HelpImSurrounded]

3. If we have, the solution is simple - congress needs to do its job.

The solution to bad judicial decisions is better laws. If the constitution needs amending, amend it. The myth of "judge made law" is a pile of crap that the GOP uses to demonize the judiciary and the continuing progress in the law. But the judiciary is not the top of the pyramid, it's just a link in a cycle.

[activistUSA]

9. The law

is no good if judges of all party affiliations ignore it. Ask the millions of Americans in divorce cases, probate cases, custody cases and criminal cases and more where the rule of law was disregarded by sleazy attorneys who climbed the ladder and became judges. Millions have been abused by judges from all political affiliations. Most are not nice people.

[AJT]

4. Yes

So far the GOPers have populated 25% of the federal bench during this administration.

[Thekaspervote]

6. They have definitely gone the wrong way, but with 10,000+ judgeships, some going vacant all the

Time, our turn is coming

[live love laugh]

7. No

[activistUSA]

8. The founders/framers

would turn over in their graves with the knowledge that their constitutional precepts concerning criminal justice have been thrown out the window and the goal of prosecutors and defense counsel is to push for an American invention called a "plea bargain" resulting in the highest percentage of incarceration in the world (at least the free world).