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

PoliticalTea 🗳️ No one should have a lifetime appointment.

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u/ShanGus7 Aug 29 '26

If it happens, should be shorter.

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u/Apoordm Aug 29 '26

Eighteen is so every presidential term would get two appointments in a nine justice court.

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u/Pudddddin Aug 29 '26

That requires that you institute staggered terms. Which isnt in the the 18yr proposal.

Sounds like this is a bit of an unserious proposal then. I mean, we already have staggered elections in the Senate for this reason, why would this have been missed

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u/Pudddddin Aug 29 '26

That's kind of what I mean

They propose this, some constituents think it's great at face value, but the entire time it was just an unserious proposal to bait the masses

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u/LowlySlayer Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

It is included in the proposal

The proposal is short and manages to touch on basically all the extremely obvious problems redditors are bringing up.

Edit:That's a link to an old version of the proposal, but as far as I can find in any article discussing the proposal it's the same. I think it's just being reintroduced for political reasons.

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u/Apoordm Aug 29 '26

Apologies I presumed it was.

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u/MythicalCaseTheory Aug 29 '26

Same. Every time I've heard it talked about, this is the logic.

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u/JustToViewPorn Aug 29 '26

They have lifetime terms until the new appointees. It’s not like they’re going to disclose how those terms are ending.

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u/Entire_Number_9 Aug 29 '26

It makes way more sense that every term gets 1 appointment, and the longest serving member has to go.

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u/OrigStuffOfInterest Aug 29 '26

There are proposals for something like that. Every two years the President gets to nominate a new justice, regardless of any retirements. The size of the court would not be fixed.

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u/LowlySlayer Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

Yes it is

Maybe instead of assuming that laws are written by people who don't think about them at all you could try knowing what you're talking about.

Edit:That's a link to an old version of the proposal, but as far as I can find in any article discussing the proposal it's the same.