Posted on 07/03/2015 5:22:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It could be done using not Presidential but Congressional elections and have them come up on the nearest to their 8 years but have no more than three up for retention in any election. Some of these would of course fall during Presidential elections.
Well I think lifetime appointments to any position in government is a real bad idea. Term Limits could cure it also.
Yes, he has said that, but given the ongoing nature of the battle, we need something more comprehensive in place to preclude this issue from continuing to plague society in general and Christians in particular.
Yep. And nothing ever changes. Judicial retention rates run about the same as congressional re-election... where also nothing ever changes.
Well elections can backfire on you bigtime and we have seen over and over. I think the term limit on the Supremes is a safer way to go.
You keep missing the point.
And one of them is there are very few political options left to effect the kind of change we need. And precious little time to do it.
By Constitutionally accurate I mean using the letter of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to demonstrate for all to see/hear how wrong and destructive these activist judges are.
That is not ‘rule by ridicule’. That’s pressuring the judges to abandon their activism and rule based on the letter and the intent of the Constitution. The pressure comes from being embarrassed into doing their job correctly; doing the ‘right thing’.
I don’t know how to make it more clear than that.
Are you a lawyer, judge, clerk, or currently attending law school? On what basis do you say this would not be an effective tactic?
This isn’t my idea anyway - as I stated in the beginning, this is what several people in the legal field for quite a long time tell me. And it makes sense to me.
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