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Thread #168285   Message #4129372
Posted By: Donuel
19-Dec-21 - 09:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: Trump Actions & Effects (NO new Trmp threads!)
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects
Our goverment is a three legged stool of Executive, Congress and Supream Court.

Supreme Court justices now serve on average longer on average than at any point in American history (28 years) and are gaming their retirements. Life tenure gives justices the perverse incentive to stay on the court until a President with whom they tend to agree sits in the Oval Office, meaning some hold onto their seats past their intellectual primes and wait until the “right” person is elected to the White House to retire.
Life tenure has turned nominations into a political circus. It’s no longer a priority to find the best candidate for the job who will serve with integrity and who has broad life experience. Instead, the party in charge scrambles to find the youngest, often most ideological nominee (who, at the same time, knows the right things to say at a confirmation hearing) in order to control the seat for decades to come.

The Constitution says Federal judges serve as long as they display good behavior. It doesn't say for they serve for a lifetime and what the hell is good behavior??

It was obvious bad behavior when The currwent Court started taaking away freedoms and established law. First they said the old voting law can be cancelled since there there is no more racism regarding elections. Now states are on ther own and do not have to obey Federal voting law of the past.

Second they are taking away Roe V Wade law. It has been slow but the Court used to only grant new or ammeded rights but now they are going backwards for thr first time. Thats bad behavior isn't it?