Posted on 10/07/2018 6:13:43 AM PDT by TigerClaws
SCOTUS term limits wiill never happen, though a future Democratic president could expand the size of SCOTUS.
The bar of impeachment is high to begin with. For judges, it’s impossible the way they choose to interpret.
‘SCOTUS term limits wiill never happen, though a future Democratic president could expand the size of SCOTUS.’
In other words, ‘We’re doomed’.
I refuse to believe that. I refuse to tolerate any politician who thinks so cynically. Boot out such cynics and get it done.
And I’ll tell you what — the game changer could be mandatory debate for professors, judges, and federal politicians.
— Mandatary, fair time, no moderator, posted online.
That would destroy the swamp utterly.
College professors, then House and Senate.
This is a genuine threat from the left.
Limiting the terms of SCOTUS would require a Constitutional Amendment which would require the left to control both houses of Congress with 2/3 majorities and 38 of the state legislatures. That’s not going to happen.
But the proposal does reveal the left’s mindset. If we lose, the rules must be changed so that we win, like their dislike of the Electoral College.
Dems seem to live in fantasy, life to them is a Hollywood movie, and they are the (?) hero.
What happens if the Supreme Court rules Court packing and term limits to be unconstitutional? Would the Left accept the Final Authority that they always claim it has? Would they continue to demand that Precedent be held sacred?
I am only half kidding. I think that in a few years, when these people inevitably regain power, that it will be necessary to literally fight these people to prevent the imposition of a dictatorship.
So it appears to be working just fine the way it is and always has been.
And Ill tell you what the game changer could be mandatory debate for professors, judges, and federal politicians.
Term limits for the Judges but not themselves? Ironic.
Youd need a Constitutional Amendment for terms, as the Constitution currently is a de facto life term.
It is true that Congress could add justices as the number is set by statute. Its been nine since 1869.
FDR wanted to pack the court, but was shut down. These new communists wont hesitate to pull the trigger if they ever get power back.
Whenever rules and laws don’t work to the democrats advantage they come up with the brilliant idea to change them so they do.
ISSUE: Hillary loses the Presidential election with fewer electoral college votes than Trump but has an extra 4 million fraudulent
and illegal alien votes in New York and California.
DEMOCRAT SOLUTION: Abandon the Electoral College system and elect presidents by popular vote.
ISSUE: Democrat BORKING fails in their effort to block President Trump’s Supreme Court nominees.
DEMOCRAT SOLUTION: Set term limits for Supreme Court Justices so they can get a re-do in later years.
Bad idea.
Id rather keep Trumps 3, 4, possibly 5 SCOTUS picks on the court for 30-40 years.
Yes. Once Dems pack the courts they can do whatever they want.
See ObamaCare, for example.
Thank you for pointing this out!
So no term or age limits absent a constitutional amendment.
Well they already killed one - Scalia. i am convinced he was conveniently murdered.
Let’s repeal the 17th before we do anything.
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