No. The ruling party gets to appoint a new judge when one retires.

Afaik the problem is that the Democrats play nice and the Republicans take advantage of this, because why wouldn’t they? Ofc each party is going to appoint a judge with alligned world views, but sitting judges don’t need to show loyalty or do party politics whatsoever.

Electing judges will get them involved with party politics. They’ll have to spend time campaigning, and there will be less experienced judges.

True. Corrected. The point is that was already pretty bad and getting worse quick, so reaching 50% isn’t that surprising. His policies probably slowed it down.

It only went up 11%points, which is a miracle considering the 230% inflation going on before he took office.

How much if your country would be in poverty if next year their savings and income were effectively slashed by 60%?

They’ll be Catholics, the default in Belgium. These days very open minded, all our churches have rainbows and such. Belgian moral panic Christians generally don’t go to church.

Q: wouldn’t this be just as easy on fediverse networks?