In the 1960s and 1970s it was fashionable for large corporations to only offer promotions to employees who were willing to relocate. The joke was that "I.B.M. meant I've Been Moved."
The stated intention was that the employees would remain loyal to the company because they never had time to grow local roots. Furthermore, there was the possibility that they might transfer good ideas and practices from one location to the next.
Given that an unfortunate number of Federal judges give evidence of misplaced loyalties, I think that 1960's strategy should be unleashed on them. They certainly have earned it.
I propose that 20% of the judges on every lower Federal court be transferred every year. The assignment will be random and made by drawing numbered balls from spinning container while broadcasting on live-TV.
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I also propose that the US Supreme Court be relocated in its entirety every ten years with all cities within 60 miles of Washington D.C. be disqualified for the next 100 years. Every metropolitan region will be entered into a lottery similar to the one described above. I am going to pull rank and the first non-D.C. placement to be Springfield/Branson, Missouri.
It is not that I have anything against Springfield or the great State of Missouri, but that area is emphatically NOT Washington D.C. and it is centrally located.
If any of my readers want to suggest other places to relocate the US Supreme Court, please chime in.
If anybody has a clue about the legal mechanism required to make that happen (Congress ==> Executive Branch?), let me know.
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ReplyDeleteDry Piles, Nevada. It doesn't exist yet, but let that not be an obstacle. As soon as they settle in, lease a patch of Kergeulen off the French for five years. After that, there is some fever ridden swamp in Florida yearning for slimy reptilian inhabitants. Vacated locations can be recycled as HQ's for BATFE, DoE, EPA, etc.
ReplyDeleteDry Piles, NV doesn’t exist but Hazen, NV, site of the last hanging in Nevada, does. Recommend as a good starting point with a reminder of frontier justice.
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An excellent idea! Service members are moved every three years unless they are moved to a hardship tour. Of course, for a big city rat. Pine Grove Mississippi would be a hardship tour.
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ReplyDeleteAny small town northwest of Thief River Falls, MN. Court to be held outdoors Jan and Feb.
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It isn't just the judges that need to be relocated, I'd say it is MORE important to move their entire staffs to new locations.
ReplyDeleteI suggest each Justice's staff should be located to the census location closest to the geographic center of their respective Districts? The actual sessions can be held at a randomly selected County Courthouse each month.
Yes. Their entire staff too.
DeleteIt might curb some of it, maybe?
ReplyDeleteI dunno, Joe: obviously some of them occupy those positions solely to hang out with the rich, powerful cool kids and they’ll definitely suffer from IBM policy.
But a lot of the problem is straight incompetence and corruption. Those guys will just go be incompetent and corrupt somewhere else.
Not that I have any better bright ideas. (Short of solutions that involve firing squads, gallows, and catapults…)
Maybe a stint in Eaton Rapids would smarten them up…😉👍
I want to make three comments.
Delete1: I don't think there are any silver bullets. One solution will not fix EVERYTHING. So what is needed are a suite of solutions that are mutually reinforcing. My cut-off for consideration is a 30% reduction in "issues". Two 70% solutions results in a 50% reduction in issues. Four 70% solutions results in a 75% reduction in issues. That is acceptable to me.
2: At least four of the nine US Supreme Court Justices appear to be highly responsive to the opinions of the D.C. cocktail circuit. Four divided by nine suggests a 45% solution which is well above my 30% solution cut-off.
3: The final thing I want you to consider is the regulating effect of knowing potential consequences of continued drunk-and-disorderly performance. If John Roberts (and company) knew that SERIOUS actions were on the brink of being activated to relocating them and all of their staff to Boise, Idaho or Bangor, Maine or Tuscaloosa, Alabama (all fine places, I am sure) then maybe they would self-police their actions to forestall those actions.
Humans are exquisitely responsive to social pressures. Washington D.C. is not representative of the U.S. in general. For example, almost 6% of married couples were "same-sex" vs approximately 1% for the US in-total. D.C. has a Chlamydia case rate of 1228/100k vs the US total of 492/100k.
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Boise's already too Californicating blue. Keep those idiots elsewhere. Eastern WY/western NE might be good. Isolate them; let them have cattle for neighbors. Better yet, feed lots.
DeleteFred in Texas, that all sounds good but let's add a bonus round... At every relocation interval, a national election is held for SCOTUS justices. The lowest scoring justice and their staff get tarred and feathered on national TV. Make it a miniseries with the staff first four nights and the Justice during the fifth night.
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On a related note, imagine the economic revitalization that moving the United Nations headquarters to Port au Prince would bring to Haiti.
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Judging by what I'm reading there will be a bunch of office space in Brussels that will be unoccupied in not that many years. Maybe they could house new tenants and we can get that wretched hive of scum and villainy out of NYC
DeleteI vote for relocation every two years, starting with the first move to Thurmond, West Virginia, followed by Flint, Mi., then East Palestine, Ohio. Let the top courts of the land live in and see what the "corporations" are doing to each and every state.
ReplyDeleteP.S. is Love Canal, New York available?
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Not a bad idea. Certainly can't be worse than what we are suffering from currently.
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ReplyDeleteWhy not do it seasonally? Somewhere along the Canadian border in the winter, somewhere along the Mexican border in the summer.
ReplyDeleteYes, Springfield/Branson are NOT anything like Washington DC.
ReplyDeleteBald Knobbers won't put up with that kind of nonsense.
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If in a state, Adak Alaska. Lot's of housing currently available from closed Naval Air Station. Otherwise Johnston Atoll with the other Gooney birds.
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