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Need a new amendment enforcing federal retirement age on elected and appointed people. If you hit it during your term, you can’t run again. If you position is appointed, you have a year to step down.
Also need a federal law correcting the recent bribery ruling, and applying it to ALL federal employees, political and non-political. Call it the Thomas Act.
Wouldn't that be funny? Biden, in his last months in office, sets term limits on Congress that would have also booted him! That would be the most epic walking away while something explodes behind you kind of moment.
It would be great but the President has no such power. Congress, a group of geriatric kleptocrats, aren't going to legislate against themselves continuing to steal millions with insider trading.
Age discrimination. Term limits or length of service would be more fair.
Age discrimination is codified. Minimum president age is 35, senator is 30, and congressperson is 25. No reason for it but age discrimination. If we can't put a ceiling they need to remove the floor.
It's my understanding that term limits actually end up making for a worse government, because then you end to with a higher fraction of people who are new at their job. Like any other high-skill job, it can take a year or more before you start to get good at what you're supposed to be doing. Too many freshman means there's less continuity and stability in the government.
But this is all just a vague understanding, I haven't read up on it intentionally.
Well without them you end up with highly skilled populous fascists instead of mediocre ones. So what we have too much of already. I'd rather have new ideas with an underskilled attempt to accomplish them than the status quo expertly shifting the overton window to the right. Some instability can be good when the alternative is a set of dynasties focused on their own benefit at the express detriment of others.
Yeah dude, electing some 30 yo who can just sit and wreck havoc for 60 years, where's the logic behind that?
I’ll be honest: I don’t know what you’re saying here. Can’t tell if you’re agreeing or disagreeing with me.
Term limits are more fair, basically. So I agree with you. Hence the "yeah" 😋
Seems to me he’s using his last months in office to highlight issues that will damage the republican traitor filth as his VP campaigns to save the Republic.
Meanwhile Trump's VP is busy convincing people that it's ok for him to fuck couches or jack off to dolphin porn because he has a kid
Edit: clarifying
But... it's got dat cushion for a pushin'
But one of the first things Congress did in 1789, the year the new government got going, was to set up a federal judiciary, including the Supreme Court—with six Justices. source
So get rid of 3 of them. Thomas. Alito. Roberts.
Joe Biden will announce plans to reform the US supreme court on Monday... the US president was likely to back term limits for justices and an enforceable code of ethics.
The lack of term limits exists to allow judges to be impartial. The President should explain the ideology of how the checks and balances of government will be effected.
US supreme court grabbing ‘ultimate power’, Biden reform adviser says
Hypocrisy. For centuries power has been concentrated into the executive branch. A member of SCOTUS called for ethics enforcement. The executive responds by proposing to further concentrate power.
He is also expected to seek a constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and some other officeholders, Politico reported, in the aftermath of a July supreme court ruling that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution.
The executive wishes to constitutionally codify that future Presidents cannot present and cover up as poorly as Trump. Once Biden flubbed his lines the situation was at risk of a repeat. If the masses believe it's fucked then it's very bad for corporate profits. Profit maximization now requires a means to remove a President.
Obviously term limits don't ensure impartiality. Fixed limits introduce an element of damage control.
Obviously term limits don't ensure impartiality.
I agree. Note that my argument was that the lack of limits allows the possibility of impartial judgement.
Fixed limits introduce an element of damage control.
What's the opportunity cost?
I dunno, but 8 year limits means that every president will have an opportunity for a do over instead of entrenching a bias for decades.
The lack of term limits exists to allow judges to be impartial
Well THAT clearly doesn't work!
A member of SCOTUS called for ethics enforcement
Nonsense. They unanimously approved NON-BINDING rules for themselves. That's the OPPOSITE of enforcement.
Did Harlan Crow put you up to this bullshit?
Largely agree with you but I think the user is referring to Justice Kagan's comments the other day about enforcing the code of ethics: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/25/politics/kagan-supreme-court-ethics-sacramento-conference/index.html
Doesn't really change much though.
The concentration of power in the executive branch has only occurred in the last 40 years or so with the push for "unified executive theory". It has accelerated with this supreme Court in just the last couple of years. The court has shown themselves ready to ignore their own precedents, pick and choose historical arguments to buttress outcomes, and substitute their own judgement for Congress's. There is no check on this madness except for court reform.
Every time the federal passes a law they're empowered at the expense of the states. The executive has been influencing and leading legislative efforts since Washington empowered Hamilton.
But, I think I understand where you're coming from. The federal executive has, since the beginning, also been also accumulating power primarily at the expense of the federal legislative. And, just like most everything else that sucks today, it was the Reagan administration that kicked it up a notch.
No reform of courts will suffice because the rest of the system is also broken.
Fuck state's rights. The states don't need rights
Or just get rid of the whole 50 states thing. Do we really need two Dakotas or Carolinas?
Hey! The 512 people in South Dakota and 2 in North Dakota need equal representation!