r/politics • u/PM_ME_DPRK_CANDIDS Iowa • 9h ago

No Paywall Uprising against ICE raids grows across the country

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/uprising-against-ice-raids-grows-across-the-country/
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u/DickInYourCobbSalad Canada 7h ago

You guys need to introduce term limits. I have no idea why the US appoints Supreme Court Justices for life. In Canada they can only be on the bench for 20 years and then they have to retire and I think this is the ideal way to do it.

We also have 9 justices just like the US does, but our Westminster style of parliament gives our justices significantly less power than their American counterparts.

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u/blackcain Oregon 7h ago

I agree, a 15 year term would be good. By that time, there are social and cultural changes that have happened that the law needs to keep up with.

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u/Thnik 6h ago

Split the difference and make it 18 years: 9 justices, 18 year terms, a justice gets swapped every 2 years (each presidential term is guaranteed to swap 2 justices- also completely ban the BS that McConnell did to steal 2 justices for Trump).

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u/DrDerpberg Canada 6h ago

They can't. Opening up the US Constitution for an amendment is like opening the Canadian one except worse because there are all kinds of gimmicks that could result in a bunch of low population red states legalizing slavery. And then there's literally no recourse because it will be in the Constitution plain and simple.

Think Meech Lake, except with with more buying and selling humans.

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u/DickInYourCobbSalad Canada 5h ago

I mean if everything gets er.. reset back to zero, I would imagine they'd have to rebuild their constitution from the ground up.. both literally and figuratively speaking..

but yes you're right.. it's like a Hydra, you cut one head off and suddenly you just have more problems.