re: #414 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

re: #413 danarchy

They can establish all the commissions they want, as long as the filibuster is in place they can’t actually act on any of the recommendations.
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I don’t care. The fact that they’re even having the conversation is going to have a ripple effect on the people who shout BUTBUTBUT SEPARATION OF POWERS!!!! There will be arguments. Many of them. And loud.

Kinda have a mixed reaction to this “court reform” commission: yes, it’s certainly worthwhile to have a Presidential Commission open up the issue; and yeah, there are a lot of “reforms” that the Judiciary (in general) could stand to have implemented, but OTOH, that “Separation Of Powers” thing isn’t just rhetoric: there is a huge, nation-wide, disgracefully-well-financed movement which has spent many years insinuating “originalist” (i.e. extremist partisan right-wing ideologues) jurists into virtually every level of state and Federal courts: they are not likely to give up even the least bit of ground without extreme political combat.