Judicial sunsets solve better---avoids lobbying and external pressures.
David Schaub 20, Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Fellow at UC Berkeley School of Law, 7/19/2020, "Doctrinal Sunsets," Southern California Law Review, vol. 93, no. 3, pg. 431-506, christian
In this respect, judicial sunsets may be better positioned than their legislative counterparts. Legislatures faced with an upcoming sunset of a high-profile statute may not see increased deliberation so much as increased lobbying by relevant stakeholders seeking to preserve or overturn the status quo.332 But the judiciary is not subject to (or at least is more insulated from) these pressures. While it is an exaggeration to say that judges are immune to public choice influence, it is fair to say that they are less vulnerable to aggressive lobbying efforts or purely self-interested assessments of the facts.333 And while legislators need not explain their votes or explicitly ground them in any sort of principled analysis, the norms of judicial-opinion writing help bring forward some publicly identifiable rationale justifying judicial decisions.