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TheRickles

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16. That's not correct.

Reply to dware (Reply #15)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 01:35 PM

Oct 2020

Lifetime terms are not specified in the constitution, only that the justices "shall hold their offices during good behavior". Under this language, they could be transferred to an appellate court role after an SC term that was limited to, say, 18 years. Much good info on the constitutional issues can be here: https://fixthecourt.com/fix/term-limits/

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NoShit... [View all] pbmus Oct 2020 OP

and Skittles Oct 2020 #1

It's called packing, cramming, stuffing the court.l . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2020 #2

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT Skittles Oct 2020 #3

K&R 2naSalit Oct 2020 #4

1890s? 1690s! sandensea Oct 2020 #5

Yea, I wonder if Barrett-nut thinks she can bring back hanging for witches? paleotn Oct 2020 #7

Witches would probably be safer than Democrats, if she had her way sandensea Oct 2020 #11

I hope Joe takes the rope they are giving him and fixes not only the SCOTUS but Boogiemack Oct 2020 #6

Clearly not-- and major reforms are fucking due LymphocyteLover Oct 2020 #8

Proof positive that Murkowski and all other rupublicans have no spine. Mr. Evil Oct 2020 #9

Expanding the SC is doable, dware Oct 2020 #15

That's not correct. TheRickles Oct 2020 #16

That's not true either. dware Oct 2020 #19

An interesting read - thanks for the link. TheRickles Oct 2020 #20

You're very welcome, dware Oct 2020 #21

All the RepubliCON politicians DENVERPOPS Oct 2020 #23

You're the lawyer, Laurence Tribe. What, legally, do you advise us to do? Midnight Writer Oct 2020 #10

The extreme right warpage renders it now the SCROTUS. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2020 #12

Republicans really don't seem to care about what Americans think. They just want to cram Illumination Oct 2020 #13

No it is not. PatrickforO Oct 2020 #14

Idaho, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, plus Montana TheRickles Oct 2020 #17

There is so much election ratfuckery going on RainCaster Oct 2020 #18

Cheating is winning. Period. czarjak Oct 2020 #22