Biden to announce plans to reform US supreme court – report

I think I know what you meant to say, but I’m pretty sure the downvotes are due to how confusingly and ambiguously you worded your comment

But... it's got dat cushion for a pushin'

You might need to reread the comment you replied to.

Bro took the dolphin copypasta literally

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.

Ok. Remove minimal age.

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.

Yeah dude, electing some 30 yo who can just sit and wreck havoc for 60 years, where's the logic behind that?

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.

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.

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.

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?

First, you think they are just going to give straight year term limits and be done with it? They have people far smarter than us writing this shit. It'll likely be some sort thing where each presidential term gets to pick a new judge, while making sure the longest serving is removed. I don't know, I saw someone talk about a way that would ensure it's fair and no partisanship can sustain generations.

Also, the government will be affected, is what you wanted to say.

To help remember the correct one using RPGs, you cast an effect on someone, which has an affect on them some how.

That's exactly what the SCOTUS justice recently requested. But, that's not at all what's been proposed by the President.

It doesn't. Sometimes adults lie to you because they have an agenda.

Being capped at serving for x (ie: 8) years though would help prevent the situation we're in now as well as the need to worry about performance reviews by the electorate or congress.

Not having a term limit should keep you impartial since you don’t have to keep people happy, you just need to do what you believe is correct in the eyes of the law. The problem is that it also removes accountability.

The theory behind it is judges appointed for life don't have to play politics to keep their jobs; that they should be "above" campaigning and such.

ELI5, How does no term limits allow for impartiality?

ELI5 is for someone else to provide. I'll instead give you the answer an adult deserves.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right. - MLK Jr.

Compare a SCOTUS justice to any legislator or the President: The legislators and President must act as their corporate donors wish or they'll not be re-elected. But, the fundamental ideology of the US (and prerequisite to a world I wish to live in) mandates that the minority be protected from the majority and the majority from the mediocre outcomes of democracy.

This role is never safe, politic, or popular. The lack of term limits allows SCOTUS justices to judge without these concerns. We hope they act for the People. But, we also risk of them acting as they do now.

The system is broken. But, the proposed changes make it arguably much worse as they limit the ability for the system to self-recover in the future. They appear at best to be kicking the can to future generations (typical boomer shit).