Posted on 02/19/2016 1:39:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Busy-busy.
You appear to have a script you follow with a few words and phrases rearranged for each thread
They would still be appointed and confirmed to get there. After that WE get to assess their performance.
I like that.
from Term Limits for the Supreme Court:
“Thomas Jefferson, for example, denounced life tenure as wholly inconsistent with our ordered republic.”
“Robert Yates, who wrote as Brutus during the ratification period,denounced life tenure for federal judges and the degree to which it separated courts from democratic accountability”
Seems like it has always been controversial but never changed.
“Perhaps one 8 year term would be better.”
Thomas Jefferson proposed renewable terms of four or six years for federal judges.
Only the excerpt. Does the rest of it negate what you included in the excerpt?
The Court is comprised of 9 individual justices - I do not see how the Court would change with each administration.
We elected our judges in TN after the governor and congress has appointed them at the state level. It’s a straight up or down vote, but the only problem is you don’t know their party or their records, unless you know the judge themselves.
We bounced anti-Death Penalty State Supreme Court Justice Penny White, we also most got Adolpho Birch, until he screamed racism. We went after Fed Judge John T Nixon on the same grounds, but since he’s a life time appointment we had to endure him delaying and over turning legit Death Sentences.
We have at least 100 on Death Row, many who have completed their state and federal appeals and are still under sentence of death for their heinous crimes, our RINO governor won’t sign the death warrant on even 1 of them.
1 is the Rapist/Killer David Keen of a 8 year old little Nikki Read, who he strangled to death with her own shoe laces, after he beat and raped her, then threw her blanked wrapped and tied body into the river. All his appeals are finished. 2 Juries found him worthy of death and DNA proved he did it.
I support term limits on Congress, reducing Senate to 4 year terms and both houses 2 terms only, NO house switching, no lobbying, no retirement, no perks. Reduce salary as they don’t work, their interns and lobbyist do the work. Ditto goes for Federal Justices. Would help stop some of this creeping socialism.
If you don’t think it would change anything, then what is the point?
It wasn’t just Cruz, even the most staunch conservatives on FR were pro Roberts as what we were presented with was a conservative record by the MSM.
We were all calling our congress critters to confirm Roberts as a Conservative, which has proved to be false. Not the first time a supposed Conservative justice has fooled us. Nor will it be the last.
You are willing to condemn Cruz on 1 vote we were demanding?
Then you are going to have to condemn 54 other Republicans who voted for Roberts at our urging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts_Supreme_Court_nomination
Trump hasn’t voted in the last 6 Primaries Donald Trump Hasn’t Voted in the Last Six Presidential Primaries
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420435/donald-trump-voting-record-jillian-kay-melchior
The process is rigged and that is what needs changing.
I believe that we are talking past each other.
Let me ask you, what would you like to see happen?
WE as in the Constitution.
Agree. People who fall asleep on the job and think dinner time is 4:00pm shouldn't have so much power over the country.
There may be no solutions to the politicizing of the Supreme Court. But no one can deny it has been a constant source of political dissension in the country for the last few decades. I feel the politicizing of the Court can be laid to the machinations of the Democrat party to gain by Court decisions what they cannot gain thought popular legislation. Let’s take a look.
President Franklin Roosevelt was the first President to consider the political makeup of the Court as a solution to the problems he faced with Congress in implementing more socialistic programs than Congress felt was proper. He proposed to ‘pack” the Court with additional sycophant judges who would rule according to his desires. This effort failed and the original nine Justice setup from the Constitution survived.
Senator Ted Kennedy began the onslaught of negative criticism of judges based on their judicial philosophy during the hearings on a Republican nominee, Appeals Court Justice Robert Bork. The nastiness and unfair allegations against Judge Bork gave rise to a new word in the dictionary.”To defame or vilify (a person) systematically, esp. in the mass media, usually with the aim of preventing his or her appointment to public office; to obstruct or thwart (a person) in this way.”[38]
Bork responded, “There was not a line in that speech that was accurate.”[27] In an obituary of Kennedy, The Economist remarked that Bork may well have been correct, “but it worked.”[27 Wikipedia.
In more recent years, we have seen pleanty of Democrats, including Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and President Obama line up to deny other Republican Presidents the approval of their S. Ct nominees. They take the opposite and hypocritical position now.
Finally, we have the proven record of the liberal justices on the Court. They vote as a bloc on all major issues. The Republicans do some bloc voting as well, but over the recent decades, some conservative justices have voted with the liberal block on issues: Sandra Day O’Connor, Kennedy, and Roberts recently on the Obamacare matter. These conservative justices are usually called ‘swing voters’ which means that they are not known for bloc voting, but occasionally put their liberal interpretation of a Constitutional issue in what they perceive as either a legal imperative consonant with the Constitution—or what they perceive as the changing best interests of the country.
The sad truth is that the country is no longer ruled by Congress and the President when it comes to difficult issues that face us, but by whatever majority of five unelected partisans rule. This is the classic rule by oligarchy and was never contemplated by the writers of the Constitution.
I don’t know if it can be fixed.
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