A simple structural reform to stabilize the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is a single point of failure.
Nine people shouldn't decide the law for 330 million Americans based on timing and luck. We can distribute power, reduce chaos, and lower the temperature—without packing the Court.
No party. No purges. No partisan quotas. Just a fairer structure.
THE PROBLEM
What's broken
The entire legal system funnels through one narrow bottleneck: nine justices with life tenure. One retirement can reshape the law for decades. One confirmation becomes a national crisis. One "swing" vote can decide everything.
This isn't because the Constitution requires it. It's because we concentrate too much power in too few hands.
Symptoms you already recognize
- Each vacancy feels existential
- The law whiplashes with timing, not consensus
- Legitimacy drops—even when "your side" wins
- Every nomination becomes a political war
We already know how to prevent this
In America, we don't trust concentrated power to produce fair outcomes. That's why juries are randomly selected, judges don't choose their cases, and appellate courts use rotating panels.
Not because randomness is perfect—because distribution protects fairness. At the top of the system, we abandoned that principle.
THE FIX
The fix: Rotate the Court
Supreme Court cases should be decided by rotating panels of experienced federal judges, selected at random—judges already confirmed by the Senate. The Supreme Court stays powerful, but it stops being fragile.
The result:
Distribute power.
No single judge decides everything.
Stabilize the law.
Outcomes average out over time.
Lower the temperature.
Vacancies stop feeling existential.
What this is not
- Not court packing
- Not partisan quotas
- Not purging current justices
- Not outcome-guaranteeing
Take the pressure off the Court.
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