I think a few of the commissioners are appointed by a body of judges, but most of them appointed to the commission by the commission after open job application.
It seems really weird you let the president pick the supreme court justices in the first place really. It's also odd that you vote for judges in some places, because that makes the process overtly political, but even that would be better than just letting the president pick them.
In England and Wales, judges are essentially appointed by the Judicial Appointments Commission.
The single syllable words "four" and "hour" are actually the two syllable words "fohwer" and "ower".
The words "anything" and "nothing" are pronounced "owt" and "nowt".
The word "the" is not pronounced "t'", it is simply replaced with an unvoiced glottal stop. The word "t'" is thus, actually, short for "to the".
E.g.
Goin' t' shop. Wan' owt?
means
I'm going to the shop. Do you want anything?
We also pronounce "bus" as "buzz", too.
We also use "was" and "were" the wrong way round and say "pants" instead of "trousers". The rest of the country seems unaware of that last one, and will accuse you of talking American.
If I had a penny for every time I heard about new advancements about to revolutionise solar panel technology, I'd have glazed the bloody Sahara with them by now.
If you're inclined to be charitable, I believe the capitalist-brained reasoning goes something like:
These grocery stores will inevitably run at a loss and/or need to be subsidised - costing the taxpayers money - because the state couldn't possibly run them as efficiently as a private enterprise competing in the free market.
According to the British (during the Malayan Emergency) and Americans (during Operation Ranch Hand), indiscriminately starving enemy civilians by spraying Agent Orange everywhere was legal.
In more recent history, we of course have Captain Drone Strike's reign of terror against wedding parties and aid workers in Afghanistan.
The only thing that's changed since the Geneva conventions of 1949 is that when civilians are targeted, the rest of the world says "tut tut, that's a war crime" before it proceeds not to do anything about it.*
Unless you're from Africa or the Balkans, apparently.
I'd warn you that it's a pretty horny film, but Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (by Clive Barker /j) was also very horny, so that may not be an issue.
I think a few of the commissioners are appointed by a body of judges, but most of them appointed to the commission by the commission after open job application.