• Veedem@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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          1 year ago

          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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            1 year ago

            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.

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        1 year ago

        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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        1 year ago

        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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          1 year ago

          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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            1 year ago

            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.

            • evatronic
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              1 year ago

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

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              1 year ago

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