• Veedem@lemmy.worldOP
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      I’m all for that too, but at least they can be voted out of office. Supreme Court Justices are appointed (which I’m ok with because I don’t want them campaigning) for life. Once they’re there, they never have to leave.

      • The Pantser@lemmy.world
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        Do the justices get protection like the president? Seems like they should have better protection since they are lifers while the president is only max 8 years.

          • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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            I only just learned about this when I started a new gubment job. Wild stuff.

            Now, as to what really needs to happen here, Thomas, at the very least, should face corruption and bribery charges. Maybe conspiracy to commit, too.

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              Federal judges sometimes don’t want protection around them and it’s not like the Secret Service and the President. While the Secret Service can tell the President what must happen, the Marshals can’t mandate protection details. But, when things like that happen, they certainly do.

        • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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          The idea was to ensure that the court never became political. This obviously didn’t work out, but the framers had good intentions.

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              There were no political parties and they literally believed that none would ever form. They created the US government based on the idea that parties would never exist. Naive, obviously.

        • Brawler Yukon@lemmy.world
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          while the president is only max 8 years.

          10, technically, but it doesn’t change your point. Just felt like doing an ackshully.

          #sorrynotsorry

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            10? i thought as long as they didnt get the majority of the term they could keep going (so thereoretically infinite)

            • Brawler Yukon@lemmy.world
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              Per the 22nd Amendment, someone who has held the office for more than two years of someone else’s elected term is limited to a single elected term of their own. So if you’ve done two or fewer, you are still eligible to be elected twice. Those two initial years plus your two elected terms would be ten years.

              No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

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                Technically, 9 and 364/365 years, give or take a day for leap year(s).

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                okay so just serve 1.99 of the terms of multiple other people and you have infinite terms

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      We elect House members every 2 years and Senate every 6, whereas Supreme Court justices are lifetime appointments

      This is comparing apples and plastic bottles

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        I feel like regulations on plastic bottles are just as useful as regulations on apples, even if the regulations are a bit different.

        Just because two things are different doesn’t mean they can’t have something in common.

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        He campaigned on a lot of things he never had any intention of following up on. I wouldn’t take that as a sign that he actually agreed with the sentiment.

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      And all their salaries should be decided by the people.

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        Ironically, one of the few explicit stipulations in the constitution about the supreme court says their salary cannot be reduced during their time in office.

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      Sounds great in principle but the reality is that the problem is lobbying and money in politics, not politicians who stay in office too long. Term limits tend to give lobbyists more power because they can “guide” the new politicians more easily if a given percentage of them are always new. The problem is the money.