so whos gonna push for a constitutional amendment fixing supreme court at nine justices
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Nine is fine but let's have a single term of 18 years instead of lifetime appointment
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Replying to @danlistensto
im relatively indifferent here but kind of prefer life for aesthetic reasons
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Replying to @eigenrobot
the idea is that you stagger the terms so that the expirations are evenly spaced 2 years apart. that way you get a guaranteed 2 appointments for each presidential term, and also implicitly solves the mal-incentive to nominate the youngest plausible candidate.
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Replying to @acidshill @danlistensto
actually coming to oppose this more it makes them seem more like bureaucrats and less like popes
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it is vital that they seem like popes
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Replying to @eigenrobot @acidshill
if anything could convince me to reconsider Catholicism it would be this
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