Neuer Gesetzentwurf schlägt vor, Richter am Obersten Gerichtshof befristet zu befristen
https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-justices-to-be-term-limited-under-new-bill-proposes-11202125
Neuer Gesetzentwurf schlägt vor, Richter am Obersten Gerichtshof befristet zu befristen
https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-justices-to-be-term-limited-under-new-bill-proposes-11202125
48 Kommentare
To just one lifetime term?
Literally every elected or appointed position should be term limited.
Sounds good to me! Therefore it shall not pass.
Great idea – needs to be a constitutional amendment however
Be nice to see a reduction in the amount of senile people in wheelchairs making poor decisions for the masses.
I’m all for it, but the Supreme Court will declare this unconstitutional: Article III grants justices life tenure.
Pretty much everyone in government but regular workers should be term limited…
This would be struck down by the very court you’re trying to term limit. First pack the court, then term limit them.
>If the Senate does not act on a Supreme Court nominee within 120 days, it would be deemed to have waived its advice and consent authority, and the nominee would be seated automatically.
I’m still so fucking pissed at that fucking turtle piece of shit ignoring nominees
They should be, it should be a calling not a career.
SCOTUS was supposed to be ~~apolitical~~ nonpartisan and the justices were meant to transcend administrations, thus providing stability. The way things have gone especially under Trump, term limits have to be implemented.
Edit: word choice
lol, good luck getting this to not only pass both chambers, but have Trump sign it.
Wouldn’t that bill be unconstitutional ?
Maybe do this after we have a new president
Here’s an idea. Can they also be constitution-bound and not swear fealty to any elected official?
Bring back circuit riding. Then these people will start quitting again in 10 or 15 years.
Term limits? How ever will we ensure the Court’s decisions are perfectly in line with the political whims of 80 years ago now?
How the fuck is this not is beyond me
How hard is it to write a headline? So clunky.
Should be: New Bill Proposes Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices.
It’s not hard.
A good start, but not good enough. I’m gonna need 6 more justices on the court. 9 is proven to be too few to maintain sanity.
Thanks Alex, I’ll go with “things that will never happen” for $1000
This is a horrible idea. With term limits the SC won’t have to hide their payouts they just wait the 10 years and get hired as a consultant/speaking engagements/write a book for millions. It’s just a straight up bribe situation with a known pay day. At least now there is some semblance of avoiding the obvious.
Yep, leave it up to Republicans to ruin a good and honest profession again. So now as a S.C.J. You’ll just make decisions that help the rest of your civilian life. So let’s see what haven’t they ruined yet? yep I got nothing they ruined everything as far as I can guess.
There should never be lifetime appointments. That’s insane. There should be age and term limits. My god most of these folks couldn’t get a job right now in corporate America because of their age. They should not be molding our laws for a world they will never live to see.
Article III of the U.S. Constitution states that federal judges “shall hold their offices during good behavior,”
Ummm….. When will this be enacted towards Alito and Thomas?
Lol can you imagine republicans voting for this obviously good piece of legislation, Trump signing it, or the Supreme court *not* immediately declaring it unconstitutional?
That said I’m for it pass this thing.
> fixed 18-year terms
That seems fairly reasonable. What are the drawbacks?
> U.S. Supreme Court justices serve for life, but their average tenure has significantly increased; historically around 16 years, but more recently, those leaving since 1970 average about 25-28 years, with some expecting much longer service due to increased lifespans and fewer early retirements.
>However, the proposal faces an enormous constitutional barrier: Article III of the U.S. Constitution states that federal judges “shall hold their offices during good behavior,” a clause widely understood to prohibit term limits without a constitutional amendment.
Yeah SCROTUS would slap down anything limiting their terms as ‚unconstitutional‘ – what a glaring loophole.
However, congress does have the power to limit the ‚high‘ court’s appellate power:
>Article III, Section 2, Clause 2:
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>*In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.*
A simple bill requiring that the SCROTUS follow the same ethics codes that federal judges are required to follow and if they don’t limit their appellate scope to parking tickets. Since their appointments are lifetime, the limitation would last until the offenders retire. And, totally constitutional.
It takes clicking another link inside the Newsweek article, but the term limit is for 18 years which, while not forever, is a LONG time. I agree with terms limits but I think 8-10 is a better cap. The idea is the judge should at least last beyond the executive appointing them. I don’t like the idea of professional judges who stay on one bench forever, but I also don’t like the idea of the general public voting on judges (maybe a vote by licensed lawyers as the general public votes on policy ideas/political parties where a lawyer who doesn’t know what future clients/cases they’ll have generally wants someone who follows the law so our legal research/arguments aren’t a waste of time and effort).
Make them follow some f*cking ethics as well.
Need to add age limits too. For all offices
Democrats wouldn’t have a problem with the make up of the court had Clinton won and the court was currently 5-4 in their favor.
This would require a constitutional amendment unfortunately, but I would love to see this happen
But not senators and congressmen?
One term, up to a certain age. Or predicated on some type of health and mental examination. Additionally, IRS and FEC audits every year.
We don’t want multiple terms as that’ll just lead to campaigning and even worse partisan politics.
I love this idea!!! 👏👏🙌
This would be amazing! But it will never go through! We’re living in an alternate universe like Man In The High Tower where the nazis won.
Great, now do congress. Term limits, age limits, get rid of lobby money and insider trading.
as a people, make it clear that the terms can be limited by the law, or by the people.
for life appointment is a variable you’re currently too nice to manipulate, even though you clearly should not be under current circumstances
Just going to be overturned by the Supreme Court
We all know the constitution doesnt matter anymore so there are no real hurdles
Democrats fighting for our constitutional rights? Republicans will try to suppress it.
DOA
Won’t even make it to the floor. Not in the house or the senate.
So that would actually be struck down as unconstitutional by those it impacts
An age limit of 60-65 at the oldest would be cool too.
We don’t need term limits.
Hear me out.
There are 13 federal district courts. We need 13 Federal Supreme Court justices. Of that pool of 13, 5 will be randomly chosen to hear any panel of cases.
The cases brought before the Supreme Court will be chosen by a committee of 3 federal appellate judges, to serve for a period of one year, also picked at random.
No member of the judiciary can be a sitting member of the appellate committee more than one year out of three, so after you have served one year, your name will be removed from the pool of possible committee members for a period of 3 years.
Wake me up when all elected positions are held to this.
I kinda wish all elected officials had term limits. We don’t need 80+ year olds just padding their wallets while we suffer.