bleary reposted
I like to use the Dublin Fire Brigade analogy. Imagine you knew the ages of the DFB board of management, who was due to retire:die next, the political balance in the board was AND you were worried that the next appointee might be the heir of a whale oil company or a dude who doesn’t believe in fire.
In a functioning system, judges should be completely interchangeable. The fact that SCOTUS members have personal political opinions that influence their decisions is kind of a disaster.