If Ortiz's only interest is truly to bully the weak and serve the powerful then she's a bad apple.
You're claiming that the entire bushel of apples is rotten, but that wouldn't make any single one good.
You're claiming that the entire bushel of apples is rotten, but that wouldn't make any single one good.
No Judge or Prosecutor should ever be elected its just to dangerous and to make a start I suggest that supreme court Justices should have a minimum of at least 20 years experience as a Judge - not as one recent one zero experience being just an academic lawyer.
Federal judges (like the judge that was hearing Aaron's case) are not elected; they are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Same for Supreme Court justices; you may remember Justice Sotomayor being appointed by President Obama and being confirmed by the Senate. Given the way that politics are, it's unlikely that a judge with 20 years of experience will be appointed to the Supreme Court: over a 20-year career as a judge, they will have inevitably made a controversial decision that the "other side" would fairly/unfairly pick apart.
The point about Judges or prosecutors being not selected because they have pissed off one side or the other stands - I think the UK system is safer as it mush harder for politicians to block or influence.