Donât be ridiculous!
Only teachers are expected to work for the joy of seeing results. Businesspersons, sportsfolk, and lawmonsters need compensation!
What some old South Park Tapes? I think I have a couple of the old X-Men cartoon too.
How about we cut out the middlefolks and elect to Congress scientists and engineers instead of lawyers?
Great idea, then we can have lawyers doing medical research and designing bridges. While weâre at it, letâs swap baristas and judges!
I wonder how it would work to set age limitsâŚ
Anyone over 50 is barred from congress. Anyone under 50 is ineligible for the Supreme Court.
Iâd be willing to let bartenders be judges. They already make damned good mediators, matchmakers, and psychologistsâŚ
The only people who benefit from this course of action, ultimately, is the NSA et al.
Hard, as a congresscritter, to be officially outraged by what the money is being spent for if âhello worldâ is just a weird greeting to you.
Some even make good sidecars.
Donât know about a band name, but thatâs an album title if iâve ever heard one. A Crock Opera?
And anyone over 75 faces mandatory retirement from the Supreme Court.
supreme court judges are elected for life, arenât they? thereâs a very American solution to enforce retirement with 75.
Yeah, thatâs the problem. No matter how medically debilitated, including dementia (which unfortunately makes them less able to recognize that they need to go), they get to keep their position until death or the ârightâ party winning the White House, whichever comes first.
Lifetime appointments do make sense on one level, but so does parole for some life sentences.
I say 27 year terms. Ideally I think we should get a new one of the 9 every 3 years.
Lifetime appointments made sense when fewer people made it to 70 or above. Keeping in mind the greater longevity for the wealthy/powerful/privileged in the U.S., our Supreme Court is now a generation OLDER than anything the Founding Fathers would have envisioned and likely to continue with that trend. Do we really want a court made up of 90-somethings? Because thatâs where weâre headed.
Iâm not opposed to anyone serving into very old age. itâs not a job that is about physical capacity, per se. One of the sharpest tacks Iâve ever known was 98 and lived to 103. He was a wicked chess player, was still on staff (after a fashion) at the local hospital, and still tilled his own garden every spring. He did admit he ought not drive around 94, no accidents.
appointed by the President (executive) and approved by the Senate (legislative). Checks and balances etcâŚ
Elected judges are a terrible idea.
dunno. the judges in Germany (for the highest courts on federal level and the constitutional court) are elected by our parliament (after some behind the scenes negotiations) and so far the Bundesverfassungsgericht is mostly on the side of civic rights and destroyed many many âsecurityâ laws.
Being elected by the elected is thoroughly democratic, but it is not directly âelected by the peopleâ, which was what I was talking about. The US federal govât has a powerful executive branch, so it makes sense here that the executive nominates and then the legislature (not all of it, just the senior body) approves.
Elected judges here are mostly on the county level, and not in all states. I donât like the practice.
sorry, I misunderstood you
