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| Authored by: llanitedave on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 09:00 PM EDT |
I sympathize, but I don't see how this could be a court
issue.
And it could be argued that the presence of the filibuster is
an effective way to prevent a "tyranny of the majority".
That said, it would be nice to see presidential appointments
at least be voted on in a timely manner.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 09:29 PM EDT |
This was not done by accident, it was done by the founders
for a
number of very specific reasons.
First, even a majority of senators may not represent a
majority of the
population of the US. Each state regardless of population
has two
senators. So talking about majority rule and the senate
in the same
sentence is misleading at best.
The senate was designed to slow down the rule of the
majority. Just
because something is popular does not make it right. There
are many
cases where this design is good for the country. I will be
the first
to admit that is not always true, but it is certainly not
always bad.
At the time of the founding it was done to prevent states
with high
populations from using those high populations (and votes in
congress)
to define the laws for the states with low populations.
Today our issues with judicial appointments are much the
same. Does
not matter which party is in power, they both want to
appoint judges
that often represents the extreme views of each party. The
division
may not longer be along the lines of populous states, and
low
population states, but the principle is the same, the
decision
proposed and passed by the senate needs to be acceptable to
the
minority as well as the majority. It cannot be a decision
that the
majority forces on the minority.
The problem is that proposing a solution that is acceptable
to
everyone will not get those senators re-elected. And in my
opinion,
reelection is more important to many senators then finding a
solution
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