Dems ready to submit a bill giving term limits to SCOTUS. How about you give yourselves term limits, assholes?
(www.reuters.com)
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I actually agree on term limits for judges. But you better as hell have term limits for the rest of congress. No way should Chuck Schumer be in government his entire adult life.
I mean term limits for judges is an arguable point. Term limits for congress and senate is just a flat out necessity. I actually think both the left and right would be ok with it.
Here's the thing though... I want Rand Paul and Ted Cruz in the senate until they fucking die.
I’m sure Justice Cruz and President Paul will be replaced by some some fine new MAGA Senators.
I'd rather see them move from the Legislative branch into the Executive and Judicial branches, personally.
A conservative liberty lover in charge of telling the government what/how to enforce.
A conservative justice lover in charge of telling the government what the Constitution says, has said for the past several hundred years, and will continue to say unless 33 states agree otherwise.
In either case, I agree they can stick around for a while.
Republicans having to step down would make way for people to put in better ones they actually like. Like people much further right.
I would pay to watch Cruz accidentally play incest bj porn into his microphone during oral argumetns
Yup, that's why term limits are bullshit. It takes away the will of the People. Some don't like it because they think that's what's keeping shitbags like Pelosi in office, as if when she termed out she wouldn't be replaced by Pelosi 2.0 because that's exactly what her district wants. If the people of her district actually wanted someone else, they'd vote for someone else already.
Which is why our rulers will never vote for it.
Didn't the founding fathers not want to put a tangible limit so that judges would not make pandering "legacy" decisions in the same vein as McCain.
yeah, and you dont want judges who move on to sweet lobbying jobs either
People are simply living far longer than the founders could ever imagine. It was an extreme rarity to live past 70 back then and there weren't life extension drugfs or machines available back then. Ruth Ginsberg was basically in a coma for over a year, she was completely incapacitated even 4 years ago and could not do even the simplistic of tasks required to serve in the court. This wasnt even a thing back then, once you went senile you had, at most 2 years or so to live, today its well over a decade. It really should be around 18 years, yes what you say may be true but so would anyone else who was about to retire or near death do as well. Kennedy did this with the gay marriage ruling and then retired 3 years later.
Not true. If you made it past 30 you were likely to live in to your 70s. Lots more people died young which brought down the average.
Ben Franklin was there at the constitutional convention and he was like 80.
Life expectancy was around 60 years of age or less. Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were outliers. They were wealthy enough to be taken care of while the majority of people could not.
The problem with SCOTUS judges has never been term limits. It's been the lack of accountability for a group that is supposed to argue about the application of laws being turned into a group that creates laws.
Yea, I'm not actually totally opposed to this idea. Term limits for SCOTUS wouldn't be bad, but we also need them for Congress ASAP
Assuming he ever becomes an adult.