Term limits for the Judical Branch

[Doomsought]

The issue is judicial immunity. Unless judges can hang, then justice cannot be done.

You need someone to be able to shoot them for usurpation if they overstep their bounds.

 

[S'task]

Wow, just ignoring the greater context there mate.

No, I'm really not? If you think I'm wrong that the Court after FDR got his appointment and under the Warren and Burger courts was not acting as a super legislation a lot of cases rather than following what the Constitution actually said, then you need to make that case. Just handwaving and saying "you're wrong" doesn't really make a case.

There's a long list of cases where the Supreme Court arguably made up new law that didn't really make sense from the plain text of the Constitution. Those decisions were all political and motivated by the justices deciding that, rather than interpret the law as written, they would make decisions for what they wanted the law to be. This has even been admitted by many of the justices that adhere to the "living constitution" model of jurisprudence.

Which brings me back around to my original point: Republican judicial appointees are only political insomuch as they are returning judicial power and federal power back towards the originally intended role and balance. The fact that this is even seen as political has everything to do with how out of step many progressive ideas ARE for the Federal government to be implimenting.

 

[Bear Ribs]

The issue is judicial immunity. Unless judges can hang, then justice cannot be done.

You need someone to be able to shoot them for usurpation if they overstep their bounds.

Judges can be impeached. It's only happened once to a Supreme Court Justice, Abe Fortas, but it's possible and the Democrats are currently pushing to impeach Kavanaugh.

 

[Knowledgeispower]

Judges can be impeached. It's only happened once to a Supreme Court Justice, Abe Fortas, but it's possible and the Democrats are currently pushing to impeach Kavanaugh.

And in all honesty considering how officials aren't supposed to be impeached for actions taking place before their entering of their office I really don't like where this going. Also unlike the President Judges can be charged with crimes while in office

 

[Cherico]

Doubtful. The Democrats like to play that game too, under Bush the Democrats refused to hold any votes for confirmations of his candidates from June 2001 to January 2003. Then, when the Republicans got a majority and began to actually hold confirmations, the remaining Democrats filibustered all confirmations until 2005 when the makeup of the house changed enough to make that too risky and they were threatened with a nuclear option.

The Republicans did not, as is sometimes said, break all norms with Garland. The played the same game that had been going on for a very long time and happened to win for once.

There is one very important rule in politics.

The rule of retaliation, any political tactic you use on others will in time be used on your side.

 

[Deleted member]

So what so you think of the idea of term limits for the courts in the United States. Personally I think that no postion with as much power as a senate approved federal judge should be allowed to stay in their position for more than the equivalent of two Senate terms ie 12 years and no more than 24 years as a federal judge all told.

I think term limits for a judicial position are wildly dangerous and that it is precisely the detachment from political concerns that a life appointment brings that a Republic needs as part of its constitutional structure for stability. We should have more life appointments, not less.