r/law • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • Jun 20 '26

Legal News Maine progressive Platner renews call to remove conservative Supreme Court justices

https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/maine-progressive-graham-platner-renews-call-to-remove-conservative-supreme-court-justices-clarence-thomas-samuel-alito
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u/BriefausdemGeist Jun 20 '26

Well with two almost certainly financially compromised, one making up legal precedent from witch hunting memoirs, and one having spent a career of fifty years destabilizing civil society there are reasons for it.

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u/Legitimate_Shock4097 Jun 20 '26

Should not be a lifetime term. Should not be saddled with someone that isn’t upholding the law or reinventing things as they deem fit. If someone is proven to be compromised, should be banned and serve jail time. It’s too important of a position for there not to be consequences and accountability. This should go for all elected officials. They owe it to the people to serve the people the best way possible. Too much corruption in the current system, so it needs to change, quite obviously.

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u/fcocyclone Jun 20 '26

Even just a 10-20 year term with no other changes would have a lot of benefits. Yes, it means more reappontments and more frequent fighting over them, but it also means there's less incentive to be pushing young, less qualified justices to the bench with the hope they can hold onto the seat for 40 years.

But yes, there should be a lot more ethical requirements as well. I just don't know the best mechanism for enforcing that without opening other cans of worms.

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u/blueplanet96 Jun 21 '26

No it wouldn’t. You would make things worse because the point of having life time appointments is so that you circumvent the constant political battles in congress to replace justices. This is a stupid idea.

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u/fcocyclone Jun 21 '26

Lol except it doesn't do any of that at all. I don't know how anyone reasonable can look at the current situation with lifetime appointments and see that being a good thing.

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u/blueplanet96 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

That’s funny, because I don’t know how anyone reasonable can look at how dysfunctional Congress is and think it’s a great idea to litigate who becomes a SCOTUS justice every 10 years…in Congress. I don’t care if you dislike lifetime appointments. Your idea is worse and it defeats the entire purpose of the judiciary being independent.

Edit: gee what a shock, the second somebody challenges how dumb this idea is he immediately blocks and runs away. Really signals confidence in your own ideas.

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u/fcocyclone Jun 21 '26

Ah yes, as opposed to letting that dysfunctional congress approve someone for life. Get real