It would however make the appointees significantly more partizan though, and potentially have the top rung of the courts/legal system filled by people with no legal knowledge or training,

It's completely partisan as things are. People already vote for presidents with a partisan understanding of what sort of people the president will nominate to the Supreme Court. The difference is that under my proposed regime, we could unseat those justices after they start issuing unpopular rulings, whereas under the current system, they have lifetime terms, which is significant considering that their verdicts are final and cannot be appealed.

Now that said, I think it might be prudent to do what Nebraska does with their legislature and ban party primaries for judicial elections. Nebraska has a unicameral (i.e. one-chamber) legislature whose members are elected through a non-partisan "top two" primary system. We could do something like that for judicial nominations, eliminating party primaries from the process and thus minimizing political polarization of nominees. I think that would be a reasonable safeguard. In fact, I think it'd also be a better way to run Congress and presidential nominations as well. I'm okay with just banning party primaries from our political process entirely. And I'm also in favor of the national initiative (i.e. allowing people to place policy proposals on the ballot for a direct popular vote at the national level like we do at the state level typically) and for the allowance of national-level recall elections like many individual states permit (this avoids dependence on the impeachment process). I'm in favor of more lower-case D democratic and less partisan ways of doing things in general.

A real pandemic in middle America is accelerating.

More than 90,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2020, a record high according to provisional estimates from the CDC. Overdose deaths increased by almost 30% since the beginning of the pandemic [that means lockdown deaths] and rose over 50% in some states.

https://usafacts.org/articles/drug-overdose-deaths-hit-a-record-high-in-2020/

Unlike the pcr-paperdemic with an average deaths of 80+ years old, obese & triple-morbid, the average opioid deceased is young or middle aged and the loss of life years is much higher.

Good news is that the Taliban will likely destroy the heroin fields in Afghanistan (90% of the world production) but synthetic Fentanyl from China is taking its place.

For those interested in some neo-Nazi schadenfreude, the smug white nationalist and Charlottesville organizer Richard Spencer is now ostracized from his neighbors, divorced after allegations of domestic abuse, and broke as he enters the trial for his involvement in said rally.

https://www.insider.com/white-nationalist-richard-spencer-is-shunned-as-a-summer-resident-in-whitefish-montana-locals-say-2021-9

I can only hope other fascist movement leaders face similar karma going forward.

Well, it's a good start, but when it comes to nazis I'm all about eye for an eye. Being poor and maybe going to jail isn't enough unless there are very efficient showers there. 

not sure if I'm allowed to say that, but seriously...if yer a nazi, you deserve what nazis did to others. It's a pretty straightforward stance. 

Thoughts and prayers.

I try to empathize with your average disaffected youth that's either been radicalized online or indoctrinated by their upbringing and would sooner see them deprogrammed than punished so long as they haven't hurt anyone yet; some of my favorite stories in politics are of former right wing extremists seeing the error of their ways and reforming. That empathy stops when it starts hurting others and especially when they start profiting off of that cruelty, though. I don't agree with an eye for an eye, but far too few of these hatemongers receive their just desserts and it does bring a smile when one finally starts to.

And what solutions do you propose?

Had an interesting conversation with someone recently who said they hated the libs because of their filthy, socialist communist agenda.

turns out the issue they had was with the idea of outsourcing labor offshore to china, and I was like "Dude, that's Capitalism, the literal opposite of what you're complaining about. Pretty sure communism and to a lesser extent socialism is pretty strict about keeping jobs within the country as best they can. IT's capitalism that prioritizes profit without restrictions, which is what allows and encourages offshore foreign outsourcing."

I always find it so funny when conservatives don't even know what it is they're complaining about. Or when both sides want the same thing but certain politicians gotta 'stick it to the libs' and thus go against everything progressives wanna do...not because of its effect but because they're certain if the libs want it they want to oppose it.

Socialism means whatever they want it to mean at the time.