Senate Democrats introduce bill to implement term limits and biannual appointments to Supreme Court

It won't happen but wonderful to see it

Pictured: Worst Supreme Court ever.

How about term limits in congress too?

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

"The Democrats have gone too far! If we introduced term limits for the Supreme Court then Clarence Thomas might have to pay for his own vacations one day!" - Fox News

This would be better if they also limited their own terms in the bill

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But with short terms, the court might be politicized!!1 /s

If you do this outside a Constitutional Amendment, what will happen is that it will just get challenged up to the Supreme Court, who will then strike it down.

Would the Supreme Court be able to strike such a law down if they themselves challenged it? They obviously couldn't be impartial regarding a case like this, so who would rule on something like this?

Can this be done with an act of congress or does it take a constitutional amendment?

Do it when there's a chance of it passing, otherwise it's clear you're just looking for votes in the next election for reasons you'll never follow through with.

I got mixed feelings on this one. The whole idea of lifetime appointments was to make justices incorruptible, not beholden to anyone, and I like that, and it's mostly worked. Once they're in, their main concern is their legacy, it's a big deal for these judges. (And we know, someone's just fucking itching to tell us how corrupt Thomas is. We know.)

The better solution is probably adding more justices. That dilutes the power of the President to appoint a majority and dilutes the power of individual justices. Tie it to something other than the whim of Congress. One for each circuit court?

Oh, and how about some ethics rules? Didn't Amy Coney Barrett just come out in favor?

Good luck with that. Republicans like it as it currently is and won't allow anything to change that.

As soon as there is a Democrats majority though, they'll be spewing bile and demand that some bill gets pushed through that allow term limits...

Cool, we desperately need this. Shame it'll die in the senate.

Political theater from the Dems, though I'll admit it would be fun when scotus sues to stop the law then is the plaintiff on a case before itself where it gets to rule as to whether the exceptions clause is in that part of the constitution that is absolutely the law of the land or in that part of the constitution that is inconvenient and to be ignored

Then isn't the supreme court essentially just a part of the executive (or legislature, whichever branch is doing the appointing)?

Another thing to gridlock congress, that would be sooooo effective.

In every photo, Thomas looks like he needs to take a shit.

Id vote for this

Just grandstanding, like introducing bills for M4A and the Green New Deal

better idea; abolish the supreme court

if they really wanted this they would have done it when they had the house as well as the senate

Surprising no-one, they show a complete lack of interest in actually addressing term lengths and only put forth a measure addressing what they perceive to be a Republican advantage in the Supreme Court - a move as blatantly partisan as it is hypocritical.

But, this article goes on to admit as much -

“An organized scheme by right-wing special interests to capture and control the Supreme Court, aided by gobs of billionaire dark money flowing through the confirmation process and judicial lobbying, has resulted in an unaccountable Court out of step with the American people," Whitehouse said in a press release.