BFD.
Posted on 09/19/2022 3:32:33 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Lolz. No genuine conservative would be on a "team" working alongside teams of leftists and libertarians to push goofy amendments to the Constitution. We don't need staggered terms for SC Justices nominated at every presidential election, unavoidably becoming part of the campaign trail, nor SC Justices worrying about how the popularity of their legal interpretations will affect their post-term careers careers. The list goes on and on and on. Sorry progressives and libertarians, you can self-designate a "team conservative" and I will still only see liberals, libertarians, and at best a few neocons/globalists
Inauguration, that is.
BFD.
They will literally coyote ugly themselves to get rid of Thomas
So, 2/3 of the Senate will vote to reduce their own power? I don’t think so.
Any “so-called” conservative associated with this group is, undoubtedly, either a POS RINO globalist or a long-time sleeper agent now coming out of the closet...
“proposal unveiled…by conservative, progressive and libertarian constitutional scholars.”
In other words, this is the product of an academic discussion that treats legal voices upholding the Constitution and unconstitutional Jews of socialists as equally valid. No thanks.
OMG!!
Autocorrected from “socialist views” to “socialist Jews.”
While we certainly have politics mixed in now...I think the court we have right now is the best court we will have for the next 20-30 years.
typical leftist racism, anything to get a black man kicked out of his job
Then SCOTUS should decide presidential elections come every 7 months.
This fantasy has a snowball’s chance in Hades of happening unless Uncle Joe Stolen does it by Executive Order and Congress, the media and everyone else just sits there and says “golly, nothing we can do about it.”
Since he was confirmed to a lifetime appointment, he could not be forced into retirement constitutionally. It’s like Truman was not affected by term limits - ex post facto and all.
Yeah, I know, the disregard for the constitution is high.
The left would insist that any justice opposed to the idea recuse himself.
I looked at the five:
Term limits for the Supreme Court BUT NOT FOR Congress or Senate.
Excuse me, but their bias is showing.
First, this amendment HAS BEEN introduced, by Senator Whitehouse (D-RI).
Some of our states have term limits and/or age limits for justices; e.g., Florida has an age limit of 75. Some of our states (not necessarily the same) have term limits on legislators. It would be interesting to see how these have worked out.
But, the Supreme Court and the judiciary would be degraded as a separate and equal branch of government if the Supreme Court were to have a “short” term limit, relative to the lack of term limit for Congress. With term limits on the Supreme Court but not on Congress, we’d reduce the Supreme Court to subsidiary status relative to the Congress.
Plus, is it a deliberate oversight for Supreme Court justices to have a term limit and not lower level Article 1 judges? Or, just a gratuitous insult? This proposed amendment is nothing but an emotional reaction to the Dobbs decision. It is NOT a well thought out consideration of how lifetime appointments have evolved.
With appropriate term limits for the House of Representatives and Senate (e.g., 12 and 24 years), I would consider term limits for Article 1 judges and justices (e.g., 12 years renewable once for district-level judges; and, 24 for appellate judges and Supreme Court justices).
First and foremost, repeal the 17th Amendment. Forget everything else until that is accomplished.
Yes! Repeal the 17th amendment!
That amendment took state government representation out of the federal government. It also started the crap politics of the senate. If senators didn’t have to appeal to voters, they’d be much more responsible with spending, court nominees, etc.
I took a class on touting.
After that, people looked up to me.
It’s a skill that will help carry you though life.
See Demos
I know of someone who worked behind the scenes in re Demos.. For years.. Tightly connected to Ayers.
The guy I refer to is evil.
https://watchdoglab.substack.com/p/president-biden-is-pushing-to-federalize
https://www.demos.org/search?keys=Tim+best&sort_bef_combine=search_api_relevance_DESC
How about limiting Congress and Senate to two terms? That would be better! Just limit SCOTUS to age 80.
However, these days the terrorists have found ways to influence the sovereign judgments by harming the jurists' families. And a lot of those terrorizing elements count themselves an integral part of an aggregated socialist-progressive political body. One way is to hinder or block the appointment of a jurist whose forte is "Original Intent" that is essentially timeless, based on inborn character flaws that have been remedied by practiced maturity in application of spiritual principles.
The unprincipled characters claiming that the Constitution that implements the Founders' Biblical principles should be changeable according to cultural shifts, are continually attempting to overcome a conservative mentality.
One of such conflicts was whether the judge, Robert Bork, should occupy an emptied seat. Joe Biden and the Borking of Supreme Court Nominees
Excerpt quoting Mary Ellen Bork letter of two years ago:In his place, and less "moderate" than Lewis Powell who vacated the seat, Anthony affirmed Roe vs Wade and the Obergfell same-sex marriage, of both which Bork would never have passed as justice that affirms righteous morality (a la John Adams regarding the Constitution). Bret Kavanaugh replaced him, adding to "original intent:; but now, after Stephen :Living Constitution: Breyer retired, guess who appointed someone to replace him, and what the philosophy of that affirmed candidate is likely to be?
"After Bob left the court in 1988 to devote himself to writing and teaching, Democrats would often come up to him to apologize for the way the Democratic politicians treated him and would leave with tears in their eyes. We will all have tears in our eyes if Joe Biden is elected president."
(I can guess, with a sad conclusion of its destruction of the land into which I was born, before WWII).
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