A BYU prof proposes scratching the nomination process for Supreme Court justices and replacing it with elections. A terrible idea, all will say. My own preference: Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment, which requires senators to be elected directly. If we went back to the old way of doing things–i.e., having state legislatures pick senators–we’d have a Senate that’s much more respectful of federalism. I bet we’d also have a classier confirmation process. Maybe we’d even have improved elections: Bear in mind that the Lincoln-Douglas debates were a product of this system.