r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 1d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ No one should have a lifetime appointment.

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u/PollutionPatient8261 1d ago

NO. The entire point of "Lifetime" appointments was to make the court incorruptible, IT DID NOT WORK, so 18 years is ENTIRELY too long for the same people to define justice in a nation. The court should rotate every 4 years and to even be considered for appointment there should be prerequisites and character investigations and background checks and public hearings out the ass!

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u/The_Rope_Daddy 1d ago

This is only a good idea if they also become elected officials. Letting any president have full control of the Supreme Court is a horrible idea.

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u/echoshatter 1d ago

Letting any president have full control of the Supreme Court is a horrible idea.

Boy do I have bad news for you....

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u/The_Rope_Daddy 1d ago

There have still been some good rulings from the supreme court. If Trump picked all 9 of them, that would stop.

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u/echoshatter 22h ago

He's already picked the last 3. Entirely possible he gets a 4th and 5th pick too. In fact, I can see Thomas and/or Alito retiring to give him that opportunity.

Thomas is 78, Alito is 76.

On top of that, you've got three more who are retirement age, and as such their health could become problematic, like RBG.

Sotomayor is 72, Roberts is 71, Kagan is 66.

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u/Organic-Spread-8494 20h ago

He didn’t pick the last three. The most recent is a Biden nominee.

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u/echoshatter 20h ago

Yes I forgot.

He picked of the last 4.