It sounds like the 18 year old was trying to carjack someone that happened to be a U.S. Marshal. So Far, it does not sound like the 18 year old was trying to kill a supreme court justice.
I think that there are many serious inherent flaws with the idea of lifetime appointments, especially for the highest court in the land, and this is one of them.
I’ve recently become a fan of the idea that for Supreme Court justices, they have a fixed-length term, and each President gets to nominate a predetermined number of them.
While I absolutely agree with you on opposing lifetime appointments; I can not fathom what this incident has to do with that.
People will be less likely to rush a “lifetime.”
You think it was targeted? This 18 year old was working his way through her security detail and just happened to get so unlucky as to get shot in the face by the first one?
lol this kid was obviously some carjacking idiot who picked the wrong car to fuck with.
I don’t disagree with you on justices but being lifetime appointees but I don’t understand how a bodyguard shooting a carjacker can be used to argue either way.
I’d say, every two years a new judge is appointed and the longest serving gets to retire. Some stuff needs to be worked out for unexpected deaths/early retirement, but, would give presidents at least 2 per year and get rid of the gaming bitch McConnell did to stack the courts.
It would also provide some inertia against changing times without being bound to it. (Potentially 18 years,)
I agree with the term length, but not with a political appointer, especially not by the president (look at the current packed SCOTUS that’s politically charged)
Yes they guy did say the car was nice. But his name is not Jack!
