Thanks, I needed that laugh. Your post and the coupon cracked me up.

Yup.

Assuming that Steven Calabresi and James Lindgren are tenured law professors I propose that tenure at colleges and universities be limited to 6 years.  This will protect students from the creeping senility and insanity of far too many professors that seems to start at achieving tenure.  They should still receive their salary but be assigned to a park bench with a good view of clouds to yell at. 

   LA Times.

FIFY.

Notice that they didn't mention Sotomayor or Kagan for term limits? They are fairly young too. But then again they have the "correct" view point so they get a pass.

Dems never seem to understand that obstructionism to "new bright ideas" isn't a flaw in the Constitution, it's a feature.

Don't fear the reaper...

Can we retroactively remove RBG then?

I don't know if it was the same poll, but I saw it/similar (same people throughout) and it showed every little bump in the road that each candidate hit.  I thought it was interesting and as you state, proved to be accurate/correct.

Idiots need to be beosch slapped.

yeah this too

Attached File

Can we get a fugly ban also?

Renew...

Fuck yeah!

@DKprof

We'll keep him around a lot longer.

SOmebody inflate a lunch bag and pop it behind RBG!

FIFY

I'm in favor of term limits on anyone working in the government, elected or appointed. But since the LA Times is for it too they can fuck themselves and this term limit bullshit.



In all seriousness you have to realize that human beings have limits, and those limits get much shallower the older you get. Now a lifetime appointment sounds good and provides just enough theater for someone not paying attention to think it adds some impartiality and objectiveness to the position. If this were even remotely true why wouldn't we make congress a lifetime appointment? (like it isn't already) Hell if the voters thought you were hot shit in your late 30s or early 40s when they first elected you then after four decades removed from the strains of constantly pandering to the masses for your next paycheck must make you the bestest, mostest super honest guardian of civic honor in the world, right? ...

El-Oh-Fucking-EL

In reality the lifetime appointment is a nice election night bonus and boon for the party that happens to be in power. The only real check it has the at some point in time a functioning human (not RBG) will have had enough and hang it up. They can finally write a book, spend some time with family, or just spend all day in your underwear sitting on a lawn chair with your feet in a kiddy pool and a cold beer in your hand wondering what all the poor people are doing. Not bitterly clinging onto any shred of relevance they can get their hands on between catnaps and depends changes. The benefit of the lifetime appointment is only the person appointed knows when that day will come and it adds some valuable instability to our political process. But I'm not sure its a big enough benefit to give up a bench stacked with judges that weren't around when AM radios were high tech and fucking telegraph offices still existed.

State Supreme Court Justices aren't lifetime appointments.
I'm not a big fan of lifetime appointments.  Many judges have to be put on the ballot for approval ever 6 or ten years.  Nothing special about the Supreme Court   They are just a bit more artful at being partisan.

this

this is what needs to be done.

Dammit

Now I am going to think of RBG every time I see Holly 

Be afraid...be very  afraid.

The left is really losing their shit.  I wonder how much longer before the craziness boils over?  

Levin said 12 years in the liberty amendments