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Originally Posted by MrBaldBastard
These crazy systems you have in the USA with life appointments, fuck when the laws were written everyone was dead at 65, sorta like your guns, the laws were written in a time so far detached from now they should be totally thrown out, they don't make you a better stronger country but weaker, how far into the future before the country realises that?
Question now that needs to be asked is: "How much perjury is too much perjury from a Supreme Court nominee?”
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Our system of "lifetime" appointments to the highest court in the land is very interesting. Some of these people stay way past their usefulness. The concept here is that the older someone gets, the more wiser they get. While this might be true, at a certain point the direct opposite is true.
All governments have a problem where their leaders become detached from the citizens they represent. A great example of this is Hillary Clinton, who said during her campaign that she hasn't driven a car in thirty years. I'm sorry, but someone who has not gotten into their own car at the spur of the moment and driven to a convenience store at 11pm because they want a snack does not represent the average person.
I don't think an eight-two year old man or woman should be making decisions about abortion. They most likely haven't had sex in twenty or thirty years, and are fifty or six years removed from the fear of being a single parent and being faced with decisions a nineteen year old has to make.
We might want to consider some changes to lifetime appointments.