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bucolic_frolic

(42,651 posts)
2. Term limits and partisan appointment limits
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 07:01 PM
Oct 2019

Every President should appoint one or two naturally occuring vacancies, but not more than two. If no vacancy occurs naturally, the longest serving justice would be retired.

Alternatively, what amounts to the same thing, a maximum of one appointee per four year presidental term.

These are minor tweaks with big results, and not very complicated.

Red Mountain

(1,704 posts)
4. Downside?
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 08:10 PM
Oct 2019

I see none. I like these ideas. Point is to make things fair rather than to pack your opinions in.

Nitram

(22,663 posts)
5. Very interesting proposals. What would be the process by which proposals such as these
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 04:06 PM
Oct 2019

would be discussed, written and approved? Does Congress have the authority to propose, approve and enforce such proposals?

Polybius

(15,235 posts)
6. He might be wrong about "the constitution doesn't specify the length of service"
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 11:38 PM
Oct 2019

It sorta does. "Shall hold their offices during good behavior...during their continence in office." If Congress writes a law on limits and it's challenged, the SC would certainly side against it because it's not in their interests.

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