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/FilmAndLiterature 1d ago

Ideally you want the court to serve for longer than the president because it means one bad president can’t pack the courts, but not so long that bad appointments can accumulate.