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To: Enlightened1

NO ONE PERSON SHOULD HOLD THIS MUCH POWER OVER 300,000,000 PEOPLE.

NO. ONE !!!

We must reduce the power of the Supreme Court.

One idea: Every state governor nominates a justice. It can be any one citizen (judge) from anywhere in the country. It would be approved by the state legislature. At the same time, a “back up” nominee would be approved so we would not have a long-term vacancy ever on the court.

They would serve 15 yrs and done.

Yeah, it would be political, but it is now.


11 posted on 02/14/2016 7:08:49 AM PST by Baldwin77
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To: Baldwin77

Judges should have term limits.

Look at Ginsburg for instance. She is sleeping through most of the day and yet she rules on important issues facing the country.l


13 posted on 02/14/2016 7:10:10 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Baldwin77
We must reduce the power of the Supreme Court.

That's Congress's job...O' Wait...

SCOTUS should not be a beauty contest judged by 50 state governors...

The Senate is to 'advice and consent ' on the POTUS SCOTUS nominee, if the nominee isn't one of the best and brightest they should vote not to confirm...

We don't need 50 political (governors) opinions on top of 100 Senators political decisions....

What a three ring circus that would become...

25 posted on 02/14/2016 7:17:25 AM PST by Popman
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To: Baldwin77
One idea: Every state governor nominates a justice. It can be any one citizen (judge) from anywhere in the country. It would be approved by the state legislature. At the same time, a “back up” nominee would be approved so we would not have a long-term vacancy ever on the court.

Before the 17th Amendment, that's more or less how it worked.

26 posted on 02/14/2016 7:17:43 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Baldwin77

“NO ONE PERSON SHOULD HOLD THIS MUCH POWER OVER 300,000,000 PEOPLE. NO ONE!!!”

Mao Tse-tung held absolute power over a billion Chinese. The world will never know how many hundreds of millions of human beings were exterminated by his despotic rule.

Now look at what the death of one man can do to all the rest of us. Frightening.


40 posted on 02/14/2016 7:26:48 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Baldwin77

-— NO ONE PERSON SHOULD HOLD THIS MUCH POWER OVER 300,000,000 PEOPLE.

NO. ONE !!! -—

I hope you’re supporting the Convention of the States. Levin has been talking about this since his book, Men in Black.


77 posted on 02/14/2016 7:53:34 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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