Posted on 09/30/2020 10:08:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
Visibly upset that Donald Trump will get a third Supreme Court justice confirmed in less than four years, thumb-sucking Democrats are at it again. Yet another variation of "change the rules in the middle of the game" has arisen from Democratland.
In addition to the "mail-in" ballot scheme to cast confusion on the presidential election, peppered with a good, old-fashioned, FDR-like threat to "pack the Court," congressional democrats fuming about Amy Coney Barrett now want " term limits" for Supreme Court justices.
Sometime this week, in a shameless stunt of hypocrisy, House Democrats, led by Rep. Ro Khanna of California, will introduce a bill that would (a) limit the tenure of a Supreme Court Justice to 18 years and (b) limit a president to appointing only two justices during his term in office.
Why is this a shameless stunt of hypocrisy? Because congressional Democrats want term limits for the Supreme Court, but they don't want term limits for themselves.
To be specific, the Democrat's court-chopping bill lacks any provision for congressional term limits — as if Americans are all spun up about "term limits" for the Supreme Court but don't want term limits for Congress.
Just for fun, let's apply the Democrats' proposed 18-year limit on Supreme Court justices to several prominent members of the Democrat Congress and see where the chips fall.
Start with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. First elected in 1992, under the Democrats' court-whacking rule, Pelosi would have been gone by 2011 — that's nine years ago, before the end of Obama's first term.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
House of Representatives: Three terms
Senate: One Term
President: One term
They’d have to change the Constitution...and thats’ not gonna happen.
They don’t want term limits. They want no constitutional oriented justices in the SC. You can bet if it had an activist liberal majority, they would not even mention term limits.
House 4-2 year terms, Senate 2-4 year terms, President 2-4 year terms.
I think the GOP should support term limits for the Court. Amend the Constitution though and make it only a single 4 year term. No president can appoint more than 4 justices. That way there would be far less politics. One of the reasons it’s so political now is that the stakes are so high. Make it just 4 years and there will be less incentive to demonize.
Hypocrisy thy name is the Democratic Party !
I would say three, two, and two.
In addition, forfeiture of retirement pay and all benefits should the politician secure federal employment or employment as a lobbyist after their term(s) in office.
I would say reduce the number in the Senate to 50. Reduce the number in the House to 200.
The only term limits should be on Government programs and government apparatchiks. Not elected officials
Congress, senate and judges, as faulty as they may be - are our chosen representatives. Term limits exist - they are called “elections.”
On the other hand, people like Brennan, Comey and Clapper have shown - they operate completely on their own and live on bureaucratic power forever. They have all climbed the greasy pole of Fed.gov politics for 30+ years. Any elections or term limits for them? No, they are untouchable.
So do you believe a freshman congressman, who is term-limited and will be gone in 6 or 8 years, will have ANY more power to change the deep state??
Wouldn’t expect anything different from Congre$$
Are you still a hypocrite if you truly feel that you’re superior to others and so deserve special privileges and leniencies? I have a different word for people like that. Can’t post it here.
It makes sense on a theoretical level to limit the terms of SC justices. Justices don’t have to stand for a vote after being confirmed, while representatives do. It shouldn’t prevent reappointment of a good justice, though.
When the Constitution was written, people didn’t live as long, and a justice would usually only be on the court for 10-20 years. There was a lot of turnover. Now, they might be there for 35 years or more.
With the Barrett appointment, we should control the court for a while. But there have been many decades that I would have liked to have term limits on the court.
I think term limits might be good for Congressmen also, as well as the ability to recall them. The 17th Amendment should be repealed, and Senators should return to being representatives of the state they are from.
I’d increase the Senate maybe. States like NY and Ca are TOO big for 2 Senators. We might just have a Repub Senator here in Upstate then.
I’ve advocated term limits for most of my adult life (see part one of my tagline). Why would an attorney who could earn half a million a year without breaking a sweat want a $174,000 job that required him to relocate to a high cost, high tax environment? And how does he become a multi-millionaire if he stays twenty years or so?
Term limits will discourage those only out for their own interests, and assure that people who want to SERVE outnumber those who want to RULE!
Increase house terms to three years; reduce senate terms to five years. Two terms, then out. Subject to all laws binding on the rest of us. No pensions, except those paid for by the public servant, like the rest of us.
"..if you truly feel that you’re superior to others .. " then you are considered "entitled".
And if you "..deserve special privileges and leniences? ", and people are trying to take them away, you are considered paranoid.
One result of feeling "entitled" is enforced humility,
whereas the feeling of paranoid will get you on medication !
Something that would have a much bigger effect than political term limits (which would require a Constitutional amendment):
1) Allow federal employees to be fired by either the President or the Secretary over their area, without regard to civil service protections (which could be accomplished by simple legislation).
2) Reduce the number of positions requiring Senate confirmation to just the cabinet secretaries and their immediate deputy secretaries and allow subordinate ranks to be directly hired by the secretaries.
This would do much to disrupt the Deep State, which depends on long-term relationships into the bureaucracy.
Trump should say...”Pack the court? Great idea. I’ll do that before I leave in 2024.”
The Senators represent the whole state though. You’d end up with 3 Senators from NYC.
Both Houses are too big to get anything done. And yet they get too much done because they have too many people. They need to be punished by reducing their numbers.
Limiting our elected officials will just transfer even more power to the permanent, unelected bureaucracy DC. Do you think Andrew McCabe or John Brennan ever feared recall? Losing power? Not winning an election?
THOSE are the sorts of people and programs that need to be term-limited.
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