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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

How about an age limit on presidents while you got your pen out boss.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

The hard part is that it would certainly need to go through Congress, and they have a minority in the House and only a technical coalition in the Senate. He can talk, but not much can be done without wining control of the legislature in the next election.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lmao My family references this all the time. My kids will ask me if they can do something. 'dont let your dreams be dreams' I reply

[–] Ahardyfellow 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's actually so sweet and wholesome. More kids should hear that one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My guiding principle for my kids is 'dont be a shitsack; there's enough people out there like that already'. I also want them to be educated so they have more choices.

The rest is up to them.

[–] Ahardyfellow 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Every time they don't vote the way the dems want them to they want to change the rules. It always comes back to bite them later though

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How is implementing ethics rules and enforcement bad? How can it come back to "bite" them?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because those that will actually enforce it will turn the other way until "the other guys" get caught.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's not a problem with having ethics rules though. That's a problem with enforcement

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Tomato, tomato. It's all window dressing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Change the rules? No.

The "rules" are in place, they'd simply be exercising existing structure.

You should listen to the podcast More Perfect if you want to learn more about the court.

When you've convinced an entire political party that any changes in anything ever is always bad.. it's kinda difficult to please those people.

Like, opposing ethics reform? So if a judge gets bribed.. you want them to be able to say, "Nah nah can't get me, I'm friends with a billionaire!"

Or, to ask in a different way, do you think that it was the intention of the founders that the highest judges in our form or government make their rulings based on who gives them the most money?

because ^that is our current system

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have "seriously considered" many things on any given day, that I didn't take action on.

Anyone wanna place bets on if Biden will?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

πŸ€– I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:

Click here to see the summaryThe consideration of such proposals comes in response to growing outrage among Democrats about high court opinions that overturned landmark decisions on abortion rights and federal regulatory powers that had stood for decades.

There have also been increasing questions surrounding the ethics of the court after revelations about some of the justices, including that Clarence Thomas had accepted luxury trips from a GOP megadonor.

I don’t want to prematurely announce it, but I’m about to come out with a major initiative on limiting the court and what we do and β€” I’ve been working with constitutional scholars for the last three months, and I need some help,” he said, according to a transcript of the call.

About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices, according to a 2022 poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

When Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was the majority leader, he refused to even meet in 2016 with Obama’s pick for the high court β€” current Attorney General Merrick Garland, a federal judge at that time.

Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platform, panned the possible Biden move, saying: β€œThe Democrats are attempting to interfere in the Presidential Election, and destroy our Justice System, by attacking their Political Opponent, ME, and our Honorable Supreme Court.


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