SENATE BILL: Judicial Term Length Amendment (Failed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

TJ you have 24 hours as you know to advocate for this. If I forget to mention this on a bill, assume it applies because it certainly will, most likely.

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I am very reluctant to embrace this. In the RL I can assure you that it would only get passed over my dead body.


Only the perspective of this as a game and the inherent differences in that is making me somewhat open to being convinced here.

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My openness to being convinced took a big hit with Ebowed's post, just so the proponents of this know where I am right now. If someone is suppose to sell me on this they aren't doing very well.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I am not worried about checks on the power of the court, so much as preservation of the court as check on the legislative and executive branches and not becoming that of a rubber stamp to legislative or executive fiat.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The amendment has passed.

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Yet another attempt by some of the right-wingers to politicize the court.  Couldn't you fellows have the decency to wait a bit before yet another of these transparent attempts?

One can only hope there are three Senators who respect the constitution, as there were last time round.

Don't you mean four? It takes atleast four to ensure failure. And there were five no votes on the last one if memory serves me.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

One can only hope there are three Senators who respect the constitution, as there were last time round.

Don't you mean four? It takes atleast four to ensure failure. And there were five no votes on the last one if memory serves me.

No, a constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds margin of victory, which is 66%.  So seven, not six.

If three people vote no, that leaves seven to potentially vote aye which is 70% in favor of passage. If four votes no that precludes passage because the best the amendment can get is 60%.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Justice Antonin Scalia was giving an interview on FNS today and said in reference to the President's criticism of the Citizen's United case and the pressuring in the speech prior to the Health care ruling, after much pushing from Chris Wallace of course, "What can he do to me, I have lifetime tenure? The very reason we do is because the court sometimes has to deny the elected majority it's desires because they are unconstitutional and thus we are shielded from the whims of politics"

Slight paraphrasing in the quote of course because I don't have a transcript of it in front of me, but you get the idea.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The amendments have passed.

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The amendment has passed.

What next?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I am non-patiently waiting here.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Senators a final vote is now open here so please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Nay

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This has enough votes to fail, Senators have 24 hours to change their votes.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on final passageo f the Judicial Term Length Amendment:

Aye (4): Clarence, Redalgo, Scott and TJ in Cleve
Nay (5): AndrewPA, Ben, NC Yankee, sbane, and Seatown
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (1): Wormyguy

This has failed.