It’s debatable as to whether that can be done statutorily or if it would require a constitutional amendment.
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September 3, 2026 11:10 am
We need to first address term limits in Congress. Also, can any of the Senators make a motion or do something to remove McConnell from his position given that he is apparently still MIA? Even private employers with 50 or more employees under FMLA can terminate after 12 weeks I believe.
I wonder what the appropriate term limits would be? i would think Senate would have shorter limits than Reps since reps have to run more often. Maybe something like 3 terms max for senate and 9 terms for reps, making it 18years max each
Congressional term limits are a bad idea. If you don’t like your member of Congress, vote them out. Otherwise, we lose people we like and would otherwise keep voting for while constantly putting in inexperienced newcomers. And a legislature full of newbies will just end up relying on the people who have been there longest – the lobbyists.
Short of McConnell actually dying, his term ending (which it will at noon on January 3, 2027), or resigning from office, the only way to ditch him from the Senate is to expel him from the Senate, which requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to do. And that ain’t happening.
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September 3, 2026 12:38 pm
Dems want enough justices to interpret the law as they see fit. That way a majority can rule that the 5th Amendment takings clause does not forbid govt confiscation of all private property, so long as the government “compensates” the citizens with “free” healthcare, “free” food, etc. In other words, Communism. Game over.
Um, I think it’s more “Democrats, frustrated that conservative voters succeeded in their decades-long campaign for a court that respected the actual text of the constitution and upheld traditional values, now want to reattempt their New-Deal era court packing scheme as a way to overrule that clear voter intent,” but yeah, maybe it’s just communism.
I am frustrated that a certain party commands its members to march in lockstep. Disregard the common good in favor of its policy of its way or the highway,
I broke my last necklace, so I am fresh out of pearls to clutch on this one. Heaven forfend that a judge would exercise their judicial authority to dismiss a case.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
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September 3, 2026 4:16 pm
Term limits aren’t going to solve the problem. Our elected officials, and by second order judiciary, are selected through a partisan primary process where a small group of voters, many of who struggle with nuance and detail, and are extremely susceptible to absolutist, maximalist and emotional arguments, effectively pick our leaders (and who then, in turn, select our judiciary). For 90% of House seats this fall, the November election is a formality, if not outright charade. These districts are gerrymandered and then run through a primary filter. There’s effectively no way for the actual voice of the people to make it through that barrier.
18 year term limit for SCOTUS
It’s debatable as to whether that can be done statutorily or if it would require a constitutional amendment.
We need to first address term limits in Congress. Also, can any of the Senators make a motion or do something to remove McConnell from his position given that he is apparently still MIA? Even private employers with 50 or more employees under FMLA can terminate after 12 weeks I believe.
I wonder what the appropriate term limits would be? i would think Senate would have shorter limits than Reps since reps have to run more often. Maybe something like 3 terms max for senate and 9 terms for reps, making it 18years max each
Congressional term limits are a bad idea. If you don’t like your member of Congress, vote them out. Otherwise, we lose people we like and would otherwise keep voting for while constantly putting in inexperienced newcomers. And a legislature full of newbies will just end up relying on the people who have been there longest – the lobbyists.
Short of McConnell actually dying, his term ending (which it will at noon on January 3, 2027), or resigning from office, the only way to ditch him from the Senate is to expel him from the Senate, which requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to do. And that ain’t happening.
Dems want enough justices to interpret the law as they see fit. That way a majority can rule that the 5th Amendment takings clause does not forbid govt confiscation of all private property, so long as the government “compensates” the citizens with “free” healthcare, “free” food, etc. In other words, Communism. Game over.
Um, I think it’s more “Democrats, frustrated that conservative voters succeeded in their decades-long campaign for a court that respected the actual text of the constitution and upheld traditional values, now want to reattempt their New-Deal era court packing scheme as a way to overrule that clear voter intent,” but yeah, maybe it’s just communism.
I am frustrated that a certain party commands its members to march in lockstep. Disregard the common good in favor of its policy of its way or the highway,
Why you out here sounding like Bill Paxton in Aliens? “Game over, man! GAME OVER.”
Former prosecutor Judge dismisses case against high school teacher sexually assaulting kids. Whoa.
case?
I broke my last necklace, so I am fresh out of pearls to clutch on this one. Heaven forfend that a judge would exercise their judicial authority to dismiss a case.
Not the whole case. A handful of counts.
Flock cameras?
Heck yes. We need the government at all levels to know where you are at all times.
this, but unironically. please keep the riffraff and low iq out of my neighborhood and put a flock camera right at the entrance
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Term limits aren’t going to solve the problem. Our elected officials, and by second order judiciary, are selected through a partisan primary process where a small group of voters, many of who struggle with nuance and detail, and are extremely susceptible to absolutist, maximalist and emotional arguments, effectively pick our leaders (and who then, in turn, select our judiciary). For 90% of House seats this fall, the November election is a formality, if not outright charade. These districts are gerrymandered and then run through a primary filter. There’s effectively no way for the actual voice of the people to make it through that barrier.