https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/04/pol...www.cnn.com%2F
Thoughts? I personally support the idea.
it's pretty hilarious that none of the sponsors are people serving beyond the proposed term limits
i think term limits are a good idea, but i think they should be longer than the ones proposed. other than elections, how else could voters ever keep congressmen accountable?
Term limits for SCOTUS, too.
Repugs will never allow that, having worked so hard and so long to pollute the entire Federal judiciary with political/religious-hacks-in-robes.
Would be spectacular.
Would be awesome. Not happening, but would be awesome. Maybe get more altruistic politicians now.
It seems like the politicians who have been there forever have the least amount of accountability. Pelosi, Schumer, Cocaine Mitch, etc.it's pretty hilarious that none of the sponsors are people serving beyond the proposed term limits
i think term limits are a good idea, but i think they should be longer than the ones proposed. other than elections, how else could voters ever keep congressmen accountable?
^Ill admit I mainly just wanted an excuse to drop “Cocaine Mitch”
2 6 year and 3 2 year, that don't seem right to me
I'm a huge supporter of congressional term limits. Our congress was structured so people wanting to fix/change things would: figure out what laws need to be changed, get elected by convincing other people that those laws need to be changed, go to congress and change those laws, and then go home. Without term limits they just stay there and go with whatever PAC or special interest groups want.
I’m on board with this.
Churning Congress people in/out of office won't fix the background problem that both party establishments essentially vet and support like-minded candidates.
It's not that I wouldn't be okay with this, but term limits can already be imposed on members of Congress by the voters. Judicial appointments, which are not voted upon, are currently for life and I think we need to reexamine that.
Term limits as a requirement assumes that voters can not be trusted to hold ineffective or self-serving long term congressmen accountable at the booth.
If you don’t fix campaign financing, term limits mean nothing (which doesn’t mean I don’t support it, but I feel it would be largely ineffectual)
Great idea; I'm a little surprised that Rubio and Cruz want it though. I wonder what there game is.
They can't be "trusted" in that respect, tbh.
American democracy is LONG dead, politicians do whatever BigDonor pays for, ignoring the preferences of voters.
And of course the deeply rigged, abused, archaic Cons ution is a job, biasing so-called "democracy" in favor of land (rural states) rather than population (urban states), so we have an impregnable rule by minority.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 01-04-2019 at 02:30 PM.
The president could replace a Supreme Court judge any time he wants now, bruh. Trump respecting the unwritten rule right now. It'll be a Democrat fapper who eventually doesn't though, tbh.
Age limits would be better tbh
Actually I'm rooting for Biden in 2020 nvm
Lol
The SCOTUS is a different ballgame, and I’m not sure how I feel about that one. Would have to give it some thought. Ultimately they don’t make law and are largely deferential to Congress, so it’s not really the same situation.
supreme court elections would be a disaster. you'd just be politicizing it even more than it already is, and that's a bad bad idea. i do think term limits would work though, somewhere in the ballpark of 15 years
Agreed, the judicial branch is the one branch of government that still has some semblance of integrity because it’s not subject to PAC money and low information voters.
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