Seeing that from outside the USA it’s completely baffling that judges need to declare the party they root for (what if they vote for an independent candidate? 🤔) and that it’s expected of them to show personal bias in their ruling instead of… You know… Acting like judges that are there to impartially apply the rule of law?
You have to have elected judges, judges appointed by a politician, or judges appointed by a non-politician (like a board of other judges). There are pros and cons to each, this is not one of the problems that the US has which are solved in the rest of the Western world.
It’s because judges are appointed by the executive branch. So, if they don’t tell the president or governor which party they’re with they might not get appointed. It’s a fucked up system and could potentially lead to authoritarianism.
Seeing that from outside the USA it’s completely baffling that judges need to declare the party they root for (what if they vote for an independent candidate? 🤔) and that it’s expected of them to show personal bias in their ruling instead of… You know… Acting like judges that are there to impartially apply the rule of law?
You have to have elected judges, judges appointed by a politician, or judges appointed by a non-politician (like a board of other judges). There are pros and cons to each, this is not one of the problems that the US has which are solved in the rest of the Western world.
It’s because judges are appointed by the executive branch. So, if they don’t tell the president or governor which party they’re with they might not get appointed. It’s a fucked up system and could potentially lead to authoritarianism.