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The US is bizarro world in so many aspects. Political Supreme Court appointees that are appointed for life (!), two party system, the electoral college, the absurdly long election cycles...
The fact that the first lady does speeches and the presidents family is in the spotlight at all. (Rather dynastic for a democracy)
The fact that our election is held on one day and that day happens to be a Tuesday. 😡
Come on now we can't have the poors voting now can we??
How are we supposed to keep our stranglehold on ~~wealth~~ the country if we allowed the poors to have their say!?
Judges are appointed for life, so they can be impartial and don’t need to worry about who won’t hire them after their term ends if they made unfavorable decisions.
4 years is absurdly long to you? Getting things done in politics takes time. How long should the cycle be in your opinion?
The "political" before "Supreme Court apointees" implies a lack of impartiality.
"Election cycle" and "term of office" aren't synonymous.
Brother I'm not talking about letting the new president fire them at will, I'm talking about term limits and retirement ages.
This one is maybe on me since my word choice was possibly ambiguous, but I was referring to the campaign cycle - not the length of the term.
4 years is crazy long. That means they start campaigning as soon as they enter office.
Ok, then we agree on all points except term limits for judges. Forced retirement is fine by me, but yanking them out of office before they retire has the drawback I mentioned before.
Term limits in general have lots of drawbacks that people seem to constantly ignore
The US supreme court judges are appointed by politicians: They are political appointees. In a lot of other countries supreme court judges are selected by a non-political committee, like every other non-political appointee.
My worldwide knowledge of this is limited. In Germany, each of the two ‘houses’ of parliament (Bundestag and Bundesrat) elect one half of the ‘Supreme Court’’s (Bundesverfassungsgericht) members (judges and other staff).
Article 94 of the constitution. (Translated)