Senate Democrats introduced legislation on Thursday to place term limits on Supreme Court justices, reigniting debate around the issue championed by Democrats in the House and the Senate.
Sometimes I think we just need to start over with a new language from scratch. This one is so fucked up there’s no saving it. We can take the lessons we’ve learned making this mess into making something more elegant.
It’d have to pass constitutional muster. Usually, it’s hard for one branch of government to impose restrictions on another branch of government without a constitutional amendment. It’d end up in front of the Supreme Court to decide if they would accept that restriction or not.
One of the reasons increasing the size of the Supreme Court comes up as a solution is because Congress is explicitly allowed to just do that.
You know we fucked up when in order to enact oversight on a branch of government we need to ask for their consent first.
This is just an aside, but I love how oversight means making sure mistakes/abuses don’t happen too much but also means mistake 😄
Also: to oversee (supervise); to overlook (neglect); to look over (examine).
Sometimes I think we just need to start over with a new language from scratch. This one is so fucked up there’s no saving it. We can take the lessons we’ve learned making this mess into making something more elegant.
That kind of reminds me of this
But how will we communicate this?
Dance?
English does have a very ‘Mad Max’ (thrown together) vibe to it.
That’s what happens when you get your French in their German and they get their German in your French. Two good languages that go bad together.
Are you…talking about the proposed term limits? Because that’s purely legislative, there’s no need to ask permission from the justices.
Justices can just rule it unconstitutional.
Could they rule on it without having an overt conflict? Why wouldn’t they need to recuse themselves?
Because they have no rules.
Who will force them to recuse themselves? They answer to no one.
What code of ethics or oversight board demands they recuse themselves?
It’d have to pass constitutional muster. Usually, it’s hard for one branch of government to impose restrictions on another branch of government without a constitutional amendment. It’d end up in front of the Supreme Court to decide if they would accept that restriction or not.
One of the reasons increasing the size of the Supreme Court comes up as a solution is because Congress is explicitly allowed to just do that.