Comment by whimsicalism
1 day ago
no it's not, but i get that it's "in" to hate on the US political structure. essentially all federal cases are randomly assigned
1 day ago
no it's not, but i get that it's "in" to hate on the US political structure. essentially all federal cases are randomly assigned
I don't think it's widespread by any means but the US Supreme Court has been directly pulled into this exact topic.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/21/g-s1-28919/supreme-court-judg...
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/judg...
https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/03/27/judge-shopping-expl...
this is more describing circuit shopping, which is a far cry from what OP is suggesting
https://www.cigionline.org/articles/why-east-texas-ground-ze...
I do think this is a great counterexample, but it is largely a bug in the law specific to patents that was closed in 2017. Even then, IIUC on appeal your case would still be randomized.
In my country judges don't get elected. They pretty much sit in their ivory tower and fuck up anyone they want.
Which is part of the reason why the Netherlands is not a superpower.
Judges don't get elected in the US (except for some state and local judges) and yet the US is a superpower. I don't think judicial selection plays a major factor in determining superpower status.
Can you name any country that has ever been a superpower where judges (of the national judiciary if it has separate judiciaries for constituent parts from the national one) were predominantly democratically elected?