Galt's Gulch

Term limits for thee, not for me...

Posted by $ blarman 1 year, 9 months ago to Politics
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Gotta love the blatant disregard for the Constitution here. The terms of service for a Supreme Court Justice don't get set by a Congressional bill regardless what these weasels might say.

That being said, Congress has the authority to enact term limits for its OWN members...
SOURCE URL: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3575349-democrats-introduce-bill-to-enact-term-limits-for-supreme-court-justices/

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  • Posted by Aeronca 1 year, 9 months ago
    FAGAN (recall the musical Oliver, the thief gang leader of children thieves)

    I read that Biden's 180 day commission to determine court-packing was concluded:
    1-No to increasing the number of Justices.
    2-A moderate Yes to term limits.

    I think, below is the actual bill, the stated title in the article is not found at Congress.gov, introduced 7/26/2022.

    H.R.8500 - To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for the duration of active service of justices of the Supreme Court, and for other purposes.

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-c...

    There is no text to the bill yet that we get to see...I'm subscribed to alerts and I'll post it as soon as they sneak it under the wire at night.
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  • Posted by Aeronca 1 year, 9 months ago
    Congress is usurping the Judiciary. Would Congress vote term limits on themselves? No!

    But they'll bring the Judiciary under their thumbs. We'll have two branches of government. And some day only one.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 1 year, 9 months ago
    Notice the Constitution doesn't say the Supremes are elected 'for life'. It says they are elected to serve 'during times of good behavior.' Wonder who determines 'good behavior?'
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    • Posted by $ blarman 1 year, 9 months ago
      Yes, but this is generally interpreted to require formal Impeachment and Conviction as an indicator of "bad behavior" and those terms and conditions are generally well known.

      It is also of note that there have been more Impeachments of Executive Branch officials than Judicial. And you can bet that even the progressive members of the Supreme Court would vote to reject Congressionally-appointed term limits in the inevitable Supreme Court decision which would result.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 1 year, 9 months ago
    The problem we face today is societal decay. The character of the politicians and the judiciary are leading the way to the destruction.

    President John Adams, October 1787
    "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

    This said, I read it as a personal code of behavior in each person negating the need for laws and to a large degree governance.


    Moral
    adjective
    1. concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior
    2. holding or manifesting high principles for proper conduct

    Religious
    adjective
    1 : relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity a religious person religious attitudes
    2 : of, relating to, or devoted to religious beliefs or observances joined a religious order
    3 : scrupulously and conscientiously faithful
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 1 year, 9 months ago
    I just reread what history tells us of what Patrick Henry and Tom Jefferson thought of the Judiciary. Not good. Not good at all!
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    • Posted by $ blarman 1 year, 9 months ago
      Anything in particular you'd like to share?
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      • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 1 year, 9 months ago
        “You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.... Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.”
        Thomas Jefferson

        If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
        Thomas Jefferson
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