To the editor:

Our U.S. Supreme Court is in a state of disaster. Senators are proposing ethics consults to restore decency in judicial conduct. This would help, but ethics is not slapping hands. In the legal field, ethics is the people’s responsibility for creating the future. As the legacy of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr., our leadership exists to support our dignity, equality and freedom from persecution. But today’s court dispenses with all that. Maybe the Federalist Society forgot to hand out a job description.

We have to start over.

1. Expand the court to at least 11 or 13 justices. This will allow for the diversity and transparency of experiences to enrich judicial language. Harvard and Holy Cross may not be the only law schools represented! The inbred madness of the plantation’s narrative can leave the building, one opinion at a time.

2. The policy of lifelong terms has not worked out. Fifteen to 21 years would be enough time for a justice to contribute her insight.

3. Our confirmation process confirms only that a cabal has ruled us since the Reagan years. An international appeal may be needed, most likely to the U.N.

4. SCOTUS has presumed its own final appeal. But they are accountable to Congress! Chief Justice John Roberts kindly declined to appear at a Senate inquiry last week.

Roberts and the other five shady justices are indeed privileged: If their obeisance to interests is important to them, they can quit. And they should!

Connie Crank Price,

Lawrence