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Senate Democrats introduce bill to implement term limits and biannual appointments to Supreme Court (www.washingtonexaminer.com)
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[–] 105 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You know we fucked up when in order to enact oversight on a branch of government we need to ask for their consent first.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is just an aside, but I love how oversight means making sure mistakes/abuses don't happen too much but also means mistake 😄

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Also: to oversee (supervise); to overlook (neglect); to look over (examine).

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Are you...talking about the proposed term limits? Because that's purely legislative, there's no need to ask permission from the justices.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Justices can just rule it unconstitutional.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Could they rule on it without having an overt conflict? Why wouldn't they need to recuse themselves?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    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.

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