▲ 1520 ▼ Senate Democrats introduce bill to implement term limits and biannual appointments to Supreme Court (www.washingtonexaminer.com) submitted 2 years ago by Veedem@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 163 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) The idea was to ensure that the court never became political. This obviously didn’t work out, but the framers had good intentions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) If they wanted that it shouldn't have been appointed by a political party permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) If they wanted that it shouldn't have been appointed by a political party permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent