SCOTUS TERM LIMITS

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp

Democrats prepare bill limiting U.S. Supreme Court justice terms to 18 years

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrats in of the House of Representatives will introduce a bill next week to limit the tenure of U.S. Supreme Court justices to 18 years from current lifetime appointments, in a bid to reduce partisan warring over vacancies and preserve the court's legitimacy.

The new bill, seen by Reuters, would allow every president to nominate two justices per four-year term and comes amid heightened political tensions as Republican President Donald Trump prepares to announce his third pick for the Supreme Court after the death on Sept. 18 of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with just 40 days to go until the Nov. 3 election.

"It would save the country a lot of agony and help lower the temperature over fights for the court that go to the fault lines of cultural issues and is one of the primary things tearing at our social fabric," said California U.S. Representative Ro Khanna, who plans to introduce the legislation on Tuesday, along with Representatives Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts and Don Beyer of Virginia.

YES! YES! YES!

https://youtu.be/ScRmLMTYzUohttps://youtu.be/ScRmLMTYzUo

I could totally get behind this even from the DEMS.

Contact Info:

https://khanna.house.gov/

https://kennedy.house.gov/

https://beyer.house.gov/

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Originally Posted by Pauls' Revere

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp

Democrats prepare bill limiting U.S. Supreme Court justice terms to 18 years

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrats in of the House of Representatives will introduce a bill next week to limit the tenure of U.S. Supreme Court justices to 18 years from current lifetime appointments, in a bid to reduce partisan warring over vacancies and preserve the court's legitimacy.

The new bill, seen by Reuters, would allow every president to nominate two justices per four-year term and comes amid heightened political tensions as Republican President Donald Trump prepares to announce his third pick for the Supreme Court after the death on Sept. 18 of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with just 40 days to go until the Nov. 3 election.

"It would save the country a lot of agony and help lower the temperature over fights for the court that go to the fault lines of cultural issues and is one of the primary things tearing at our social fabric," said California U.S. Representative Ro Khanna, who plans to introduce the legislation on Tuesday, along with Representatives Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts and Don Beyer of Virginia.

YES! YES! YES!

https://youtu.be/ScRmLMTYzUohttps://youtu.be/ScRmLMTYzUo

I could totally get behind this even from the DEMS.

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I can't support any term limits, I could support an age limit to deal with the possibility of senility but what is really needed is to let a President remove them with the advice and consent of the Senate.

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Originally Posted by Swordsmyth

I can't support any term limits, I could support an age limit to deal with the possibility of senility but what is really needed is to let a President remove them with the advice and consent of the Senate.

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That's awesome as well. Baby steps. Set the terms then we can have them removed/impeached.

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Originally Posted by Swordsmyth

I can't support any term limits, I could support an age limit to deal with the possibility of senility but what is really needed is to let a President remove them with the advice and consent of the Senate.

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Then we can set term limits for each house.

What's the point? So the D's and R's can fight about it more often?

Meow meow constitution

Time limits would only serve to make the supreme court into a political boondoggle. They aren't politicians they are judges. Time limits would just get shortened when its politically beneficial so it's a slippery slope. The judicial branch is supposed to be a check in power against the other branches of the government. This would just be a slow creep to take over the judicial process and make it a political process.

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Originally Posted by nikcers

Time limits would only serve to make the supreme court into a political boondoggle. They aren't politicians they are judges. Time limits would just get shortened when its politically beneficial so it's a slippery slope. The judicial branch is supposed to be a check in power against the other branches of the government. This would just be a slow creep to take over the judicial process and make it a political process.

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Judges have always been political and always will be, that's why they should be able to be removed by the same method they are chosen.

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Originally Posted by tfurrh

Meow meow constitution

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^^This. The terms of a SCOTUS justice are set forth in Article III, changing that would take an amendment.

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Originally Posted by nikcers

Time limits would only serve to make the supreme court into a political boondoggle.

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Huh?

When wasnt it?

I'm guessing the Democrats want to do this because they want to get rid of all judges that Trump appoints.

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Originally Posted by fedupinmo

^^This. The terms of a SCOTUS justice are set forth in Article III, changing that would take an amendment.

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The bill attempts to avoid this by making it inapplicable to current justices. But the language of the Constitution is clear, and it should have been obvious to the bill's sponsors that the 18-year term limit is unconstitutional.

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Originally Posted by nikcers

Time limits would only serve to make the supreme court into a political boondoggle. They aren't politicians they are judges. Time limits would just get shortened when its politically beneficial so it's a slippery slope. The judicial branch is supposed to be a check in power against the other branches of the government. This would just be a slow creep to take over the judicial process and make it a political process.

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It already is a political process, we have activist judges.

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Originally Posted by Anti Globalist

I'm guessing the Democrats want to do this because they want to get rid of all judges that Trump appoints.

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Not sure if it would retroactive or not.

Is this shift being planned to mitigate permanent impact of Deep Neocns ploys??

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Originally Posted by fedupinmo

^^This. The terms of a SCOTUS justice are set forth in Article III, changing that would take an amendment.

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Amend away!

The Justices will refuse to leave because it is unconstitutional.

What did Ron have to say about this (what the Constitution's intent was)?

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Originally Posted by Anti Globalist

I'm guessing the Democrats want to do this because they want to get rid of all judges that Trump appoints.

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And GOP can remove DEM appointments.

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Originally Posted by dude58677

The Justices will refuse to leave because it is unconstitutional.

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not if there is an amendment.

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Originally Posted by Pauls' Revere

And GOP can remove DEM appointments.

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Only via impeachment. Good luck with that.

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Originally Posted by Sonny Tufts

Only via impeachment. Good luck with that.

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SCOTUS term limits would work for/against both parties.

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Originally Posted by Pauls' Revere

not if there is an amendment.

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They won’t get that!

Ultimately, the court isn't capable of restraining the elected government because it's controlled by the elected government.

The best case scenario is that it provides some inertia, slows things down a little bit.

Shortening terms will retard its ability to do even that.