Posted on 01/22/2026 1:53:10 AM PST by Olog-hai
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a potential White House hopeful for 2028, said on Wednesday that he wants a mandatory retirement age of 75 for the president and people holding office in other branches of government.
“You’re 75 years old: done,” Emanuel, a Democrat, said at a Center for American Progress event. “And that would be in the legislative branch, it’d be in the executive branch — including the Cabinet — and it’d also be in the Supreme Court, and all the federal courts.”
Emanuel, 66, acknowledged that he would be affected by this proposal if he happens to be elected president in 2028 and seeks re-election, as he would be 73 at the start of a potential second term.
“I know where I am in my age. Of course it would apply to me,” Emanuel told Politico. “You can’t say ‘here’s what I want to do to change Washington, one of the things I want to do’ — but I get an exemption because I bought it beforehand.”
The proposal would make President Donald Trump, 79, ineligible to continue serving and would have prevented former President Joe Biden, now 83, from serving his term in the White House.
In Congress, 17 senators and 45 House members are currently 75 or older and would be impacted by the standard.
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, 77, and Samuel Alito, 75, would also be barred from continuing to serve on the bench, while Justices Sonia Sotomayor, 71, and John Roberts, 70, are nearing Emanuel’s mandatory retirement age. …
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Former mayor of Chicongo and a multi-millionaire. That tells you everything you need to know about this crook.
Hold on now... That’s discriminatory and completely wrong... Oh... That’s right... He’s a democrat. Par for the course then I’d say, because they’ve always been discriminatory and wrong... On pretty much everything.
If McLellan had beaten Lincoln back in the day, legal slavery would still be a part of America’s culture to this day.
It’s 70 in my mind. I don’t need a law saying it.
If you are 70 at the start of the term…it is the last term.
The ballerina is attempting to close the barn door after ole dobbins got out.
It has to be individual. A sharp tack like trump doesn’t need a law like that. Sleepy Joe on the other hand…..
+1
I would agree with this at least when it comes to the presidency. Presidential duties and decisions require a minimal intellectual capacity which few still have at 80 y/o. Even with Trump you can tell that he’s not at the same level he once was.
That should tell us something. I,too would maybe suggest an age limit for politicians, but not one with this clown making the decisions as to age. Some people would be OK by a late age, but we need a better way than Rahm’s idea of determining this.
Then, he should shut up as well.
Founders,
Never anticipated Women and young adults voting. That is why the Constitution only works if you have mature, reasoned voters.
His brother wants them dead.
Even if such a thing were to be passed, everyone in office now would be grandfathered in....
I “call for” Rob Emanuel (and anyone associated with him in any capacity) to be mandatorily retired.
What a perpetual putz.
Damn, who’d a thunk it, a democrat going off the rails constitutionally, you go guy, I want to see you get congress to cut their throats, especially with all the ooooold demos. While some of what he lays out sounds good, it’s just the set up for what he saved for last, the USSC judges.
I’d prefer a free and fair electoral system before making these changes. Voter ID would need to be a part of it.
Oh, yeah...Trump.
I suspect that’s the whole reason for Rahm’s “idea.”
Funny how he didn’t say anything when Biden was shuffling around, getting lost on stages and mumbling incoherent nonsense.
Isn’t Rahm-a-Dama-the-Ding-Dong the idiot who advocated a few years back that people should be offed by the state when they turned 75?
His brother Ezekiel aka “ the angel of death” is the architect of the “ Complete Lives” health system that basically ends health services to people over 75 as an unfair use of scarce resources
https://jpands.org/vol18no3/huntoon.pdf
He was a health advisor to “ just take a pain pill” obama when he whined about his grandmother’s hip replacement….
See my post above
It is his brother
See my post above
It is his brother
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/04/ezekiel_emmanuels_reaper_curve.html
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