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Supreme Court prepares to kill same sex marriage in America (www.peoplesworld.org)

submitted 5 months ago by redtree3@beehaw.org to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org

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"Making matters worse, if Trump is elected this year he could veto any congressional attempt to reverse such a disastrous ruling of the Court by passing a law guaranteeing same sex marriage rights."

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[-] bedrooms@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

Sometimes I wonder if POTUS could declare national emergency due to an unhinged SCOTUS.

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

If they controlled all three levels of government, they could enact Supreme Court reforms. Each appointee servers for life in an advisory capacity (to align with the Constitution), but only the 9 most recent appointees vote on rulings. Every odd-number year (non-election year), a new judge is appointed. If a judge needs to vacate while they still have a vote, then the most-recently removed judge that's still available regains the vote until the next appointment.

So they should usually just serve 18 years, but it could be 20-22 years if people die or retire. (The recent average is a whopping 28 years!)

I'm not even American, btw, but this seems like a very common-sense proposal, at least to an outsider. I just googled it and found a whole site explaining it in more detail:

https://fixthecourt.com/fix/term-limits/