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Of course you don't want the legislative or executive branch to appoint members of the judicial branch. All three branches are supposed to be strictly separate from each other.

If you did allow the other branches to appoint judges, the bench would obviously become stuffed based on who's currently in power.



And yet that's what the US does.




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