Now that conservatives are in the driver seat,
nomination rules and term limit reform for SCOTUS is being proposed by so-called 'bipartisan' constitutional scholars.
- POTUS can only nominate in 1st and 3rd year of a term
- Justices serve 18 years before 'senior status' relegates them to lower court cases
- If a vacancy occurs in an off year, the semi-retired justice with the least years of 'senior status' will fill in until a year POTUS is allowed to nominate
Nice try, participation trophy lovers. Ironic how the proposed reforms would directly combat the ramifications of DT's three conservatives nominations in this first term.
Under these rules the replacements for AK and RBG could only be nominated by DT if either leave before Year 4 or he'd have to win re-election to do so in Year 5.
Dems would have RBG walking around without a pulse like Weekend at Ruthie's before they let her exit before 2020.
With term limits, DT's list of younger justices who'll serve for decades would be knee-capped.
I'm all for age limits, like 75 or so. But term limits is being used to diffuse the implications of DT's victory. A campaign heavily fueled by his SCOTUS preferences.
If HRC won nobody would've wasted their time meeting and proposing SCOTUS reforms.
But now that cons run the show and two non-con justices are on their last leg, it's time to change the rules, huh.
Same bs as the push for the popular vote to decide elections after DT won the electorate only. As always, in the spirit of BO, 'stop whining' elections have consequences.
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