{"id":1861,"date":"2006-05-10T10:10:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T18:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2010-04-14T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T17:08:31","slug":"king-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1861","title":{"rendered":"King Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard me <a href=\"?p=300\">advocate<\/a> abolition of the US judiciary, as a way to restore some of the tension between Federal and State authorities that <a href=\"http:\/\/federalistpapers.com\/\">Publius<\/a> considered so important.<\/p>\n<p>Failing that, I&#8217;ve also proposed to eliminate the &#8220;jackpot&#8221; effect by allowing each President to nominate a fixed number of Supreme Court Justices per term, irrespective of vacancies.  It turns out that one appointment per Congress would be about right: the present Congress is the 109th, and 110 persons so far have sat on that bench.  <a href=\"?p=2042\">(Followup)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard me advocate abolition of the US judiciary, as a way to restore some of the tension between Federal and State authorities that Publius considered so important. Failing that, I&#8217;ve also proposed to eliminate the &#8220;jackpot&#8221; effect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1861\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}