prayer in school case, so they trashed it. didn t lincoln try to make it 13 people or something like that? it goes way back. so boring. it s going to be a huge issue. let s play with this idea of cruz . he s a lawyer went to harvard law, brilliant guy. former general of the state. how did he think would work every eight years would have a retention election? the supreme court justice would have campaign and have advertising and the people that didn t like it would run advertising campaigns against it. is this an improvement? how can you think more elections, more money, more poll litization would they join political parties. what about the justice who doesn t have any money? he doesn t actually think this, chris. of course, he doesn t think
what i really worry about, john with this ruling is the grave injustice it does to the rule of law. they ve done a great disservice to the country because they re rewriting laws at the bench. judicial tyranny is when we believe the courts have a right to bypass the process of law. we ve seen it this week. a court is not reading the constitution not reading the dictionary. well some republicans blasting the supreme court s rulings on obamacare and same-sex marriage came down last week and now texas senator ted cruz says it s probably time the supreme court justices are subject to election so-called retention election. here to debate we have elizabeth at florida international university and a former supreme court clerk. good morning to both of you.
morning. good morning. professor foley, let s start with you, so the idea of these retention elections are and, in fact, ted cruz detailed it this way. with every justice beginning with that second national election and after his or her appointment will answer to the american people and to the states with a retention election every eight years. professor foley, is this a good idea? well you know i m not particularly wedded to this proposal although i think it s an intriguing one and it certainly is worth considering. conservatives in particular need to be open-minded to these sorts of supreme court reform proposals like senator cruz s because essentially we have supreme court justices now who are acting like politicians in robes, and we node to find ways to make them more politically accountable to the people. and they aren t accountable because these are jobs that they
. jamie: if you thought the bitter political battle in wisconsin was over, here we go again. liberals are trying to make it a referendum on republican scott walker and it s pushed to rein in public unions and they re pouring millions into the state to unseat justice david prosser, along with six others could decide the fate of the wisconsin repair law, state employees. it s not a recall election it s a judicial retention election, suddenly escalating into a full scale brawl. is this the first liberal counterattack against walker. sure, the first liberal counterattack against walker and designed to send a message not the just in wisconsin, but across the country the unions are going to stop at nothing. this is allout war and they re not going to accede to these negotiations and reforms over