Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Take on the failed Supreme Court nomination process

Something always felt off with the Anthony Kennedy retirement. Maybe it was the fact he put the balance of the court in the hands of the most corrupt president of my lifetime -who by the way is personal friends with his son and has made a ton of money off of Trump- or maybe it was the fact that there was likely behind he scenes wheeling and dealing. Well now we are starting to pull back the layers of the onion and like most things Trump, it stinks.
Sources are now telling NBC that Justice Kennedy personally negotiated his retirement with Trump which is why his former law clerk now will likely sit on the bench. This is the kind of thing that threw Rod Blagojevich in jail as a public position should never be open for negotiation

I've decided that having judges sit on the court for a lifetime is the kind of thing our forefathers got wrong. Nobody should be above the law of the land and holding positions till death leaves to tilts in the balance based only on the current administration which seems about as arbitrary as anything (especially when you consider the McConnell rule which doesn't allow for a nominee to get a hearing within a year of a presidential election)

I believe we should have them serve terms 18 year terms which would mean that each president gets two justices per four years.

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