• @[email protected]OP
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    991 year ago

    I’m all for that too, but at least they can be voted out of office. Supreme Court Justices are appointed (which I’m ok with because I don’t want them campaigning) for life. Once they’re there, they never have to leave.

    • The Pantser
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      151 year ago

      Do the justices get protection like the president? Seems like they should have better protection since they are lifers while the president is only max 8 years.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            Federal judges sometimes don’t want protection around them and it’s not like the Secret Service and the President. While the Secret Service can tell the President what must happen, the Marshals can’t mandate protection details. But, when things like that happen, they certainly do.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 year ago

        The idea was to ensure that the court never became political. This obviously didn’t work out, but the framers had good intentions.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            There were no political parties and they literally believed that none would ever form. They created the US government based on the idea that parties would never exist. Naive, obviously.

      • Brawler Yukon
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        91 year ago

        while the president is only max 8 years.

        10, technically, but it doesn’t change your point. Just felt like doing an ackshully.

        #sorrynotsorry

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          10? i thought as long as they didnt get the majority of the term they could keep going (so thereoretically infinite)

          • Brawler Yukon
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            1 year ago

            Per the 22nd Amendment, someone who has held the office for more than two years of someone else’s elected term is limited to a single elected term of their own. So if you’ve done two or fewer, you are still eligible to be elected twice. Those two initial years plus your two elected terms would be ten years.

            No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

      • @loopedcandle
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        31 year ago

        The US Marshalls provide their protection.