Law Prof. Calls for Congress to ‘Buy Out’ Conservative Justices

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Critics of conservative Supreme Court justices have recommended offering them a “buyout” to get them to retire.

Georgetown law professor Josh Chafetz and Seton Hall Law Assistant Dean Brian Sheppard both advocated for this plan, suggesting that President Joe Biden could scrape up the money to bribe the justices out of their seats.

According to Zero Hedge, Dean Sheppard insists that offering the large bribes “could be effective without harming the integrity of the institution.”

While discussing the benefit of encouraging Supreme Court turnover, Sheppard also noted that “the most pronounced turn in favorability coincided with the recent shift to a 6-3 split in favor of Republican-appointed justices.”

In a column expressing his opinion on the matter, Sheppard spends most of the time arguing that buyouts should be used to discourage justices from staying on the Court until they can be replaced by a successor with shared values.

However, he did make it clear that the majority of justices who would be offered the payments would be Republican appointees—Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

This change would allow President Biden to appoint a five justice majority.

Luca Brasi, of the school of judicial integrity, wrote up an offer.

“Congress should offer substantial buyouts to any Supreme Court justices who retire when they reach 10 years of service on the High Court,” the statement reads.

“The five justices who have already exceeded that number should be eligible for the payment if they retire within one year. To overcome the considerable allure of ideological power, the sum should be in the millions.”

Sheppard continues, suggesting that “if congress cannot be persuaded to pass a buyout plan, then President Biden might be able to gather sufficient discretionary funds for that purpose with money under his control.”

So, President Biden would be offering millions of dollars to conservative justices to leave the court in order to pull it farther to the left.

Sheppard insists that this would not turn into a seats-for-cash deal, and treats it as totally harmless.

Congress has not made any statements regarding this as a possible solution.