r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • Aug 29 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ No one should have a lifetime appointment.

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u/JeremyPatMartin Aug 29 '26

The people who said that literally owned humans as private property

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u/Mindless_Chest_1079 Aug 29 '26

Yeah and the people bitching about it are Redditors. Nobody's perfect.

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u/Old-Nefariousness556 Aug 30 '26

FWIW, Alexander Hamilton was one of the most vocal proponents of lifetime appointments to the supreme court, and he was a lifelong abolitionist.

There are good arguments for why lifetime appointments make sense, but they all rest on the notion that the person appointed actually wants to do the job in good faith. The founding fathers didn't foresee people putting their ideology before the good of the country.

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u/pippathebeast Aug 29 '26

the founding fathers were flawed

the supreme court is therefore flawed

doesn't check out logically

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u/zue4 Aug 29 '26

Ofc nothing makes sense when you don't apply your brain and think in the least bit.

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u/pippathebeast Aug 29 '26

Its called ad hominem lol