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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is something called "separation of powers."

This act stomps all over that.

[quote]As I have noted previously, the SCERT Act would wreak havoc by creating a process by which people could submit complaints about Supreme Court justices to a panel of five appeals-court judges in an effort to disqualify them. The complaints may draw from a specific statute or regulation or simply allege “conduct that undermines the integrity of the Supreme Court.” That would enable a flood of disqualification motions in major cases, not to mention minor ones, in which anyone who wishes to see a justice removed from a case could throw a wrench into the process. It is another way to restructure the Court: Instead of pursuing the politically toxic tactic of packing it by adding justices, influence cases by subtracting them. Even falling short of that, this new mechanism would serve as a means of intimidating justices and delaying their work.

Whitehouse’s press release announcing the upcoming committee vote on his legislation makes only a fleeting mention of the bill’s complaint mechanism and not surprisingly does not include its details. It is, after all, easier to market such a package under the label “ethics” than under “restructuring the Court.” Whitehouse and the vast majority of his Democratic colleagues likely know that court-packing is going nowhere. Senator Ed Markey’s bill to add four justices to the Court, which had two cosponsors during the last Congress, has none so far in this one.[/quote]

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/oppose-the-democrats-latest-supreme-court-scheme/[/quote]
The founders wanted checks and balances on the powers.[/quote]

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