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    Man with nothing more to lose, loses more

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    John Wayne Bobbitt, whose wife sliced off his manhood, loses toes due to toxic water at Camp Lejeune

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    John Wayne Bobbitt, whose wife Lorena Bobbitt infamously chopped off his penis with a kitchen knife in 1993, has lost all of his toes due to side effects from an illness he claims he sustained while based at...


     

    But TIL he’s a giant piece of shit for reasons of just directly but tangentially related to the reason for his dick getting cut off

    ~*Official Iran/Israel War Watch Thread*~ update (04/18): Israeli missiles target military airbase in Iran

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    20 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

    I am generally against Israel, in terms of the government and actions of the nation state. I'm not anti-Israeli population, however. I am also generally anti-Iran government, and anti-PLA government, etc. I don't think there's a single good nation state in that region, tbh. Israel gets a few points for being more democratic than its neighbours...but it also basically has imprisoned millions of people. The neighbouring countries have also helped with this. Basically, I think all sides are to blame, and all sides are victims, and it's a cycle that will never end because no one is willing to be the last person to take a punch in any given situation, mainly because of how egotistical humans are.

    It’s almost as if there is no moral government because the nature of government is violence by definition 

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    ~*The Official Thread of One Term/Twice Impeached/Worst of Them All Presidential Tantrums, Candy Throwing, and Pants Shitting*~

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    Judge rules Access Hollywood transcript can be shown to jury in historic Trump criminal trial – live | Donald Trump trials | The Guardian

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    Former US president becomes first to undergo criminal trial over charges of falsifying business records to hide his affair with Stormy Daniels


     

    low energy trump appears to fall asleep in courtroom

    Just saw a thread about how much the original house you grew up in in selling for

    in The Shower

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    The first home I remember living in has a zestimate of $335k (about 2800 sqft) built 1915

    second, same city, about $98k zestimate (about 1500 sqft) built 1920s

    the next house I remember growing up in belonged to the church my dad was a pastor at and was a different southern Ohio city. Finding accurate information on it is difficult even though it sold 3 years ago it sold with the church which it shared a lot with. But it appears the church and the house were sold for about $55k. House maybe is 2500 sqft, built in the 1800s some time. 
    next home was the shittiest place I’ve ever lived(well the shittiest in which we had access to the whole house, I’ve lived in a two room basement for about a year), a floor so slanted a ball would rapidly roll down it if placed gently on the ground. $38k for 1100sqft according to/on the Zillow map but clicking on the property says there’s not enough information about it to make any estimates. It’s a fucking dump. 
    the last house I would call home in Ohio sold in 2020 for approximately $115k. 
    The last and only place I remember where my dad lived, and where I was legally domiciled for the purposes of in state tuition, I can’t find any information about on Zillow. 
     

    the last three that I lived in are in the shittiest city you’ve never seen. I went back through there just a week ago after the eclipse on my way home here to Virginia. It’s worse than I remember by a wide margin. An absolutely fentanyl poisoned hole rotting from the inside out. 

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    Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement is a political IQ test

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    5 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:


    I believe you’re under the assumption that a judge selected is required to take the job and is unable to decline if they don’t want it: that’s not how I took it.

    Adding “Supreme Court Justice” to your resume is a hell of a “get” for some, and there are others who would actively want the job in an attempt to “make a difference”. If your concern is that many of those people would be self-serving ideologues… well, I don’t see how that’s any different than now, but at least the term isn’t for life lol

    The point is that many more will decline it leaving only the ideologues or the inexperienced at the district and appellate levels where the bulk of the work of the judiciary is done, this is outside of anything to do with SCOTUS. A federal judge should have tenure and be able to learn from more tenured judges. All this proposal would do is add more problems and solve none. 

    Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement is a political IQ test

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    2 hours ago, Spork3245 said:


    People do it to work in a Presidential administration for potentially 4 years 

    These are not remotely comparable lol. People taking admin jobs can find other work in DC outside of the admin or understand this is a temporary gig, and don’t go in with the understanding that they will need to completely uproot their entire life every 5 years as a definition of their extremely difficult to achieve career. Especially if they can stay in private practice or on state circuits or some other job where they don’t need to take their kids out of schools, uproot their personal and social life, and have no connection to the area in which they live every five years for a lateral move professionally. 
     

    this is a recipe for only the ideologically committed or ending up with massive turnover at best to the private sector. Like even a federal magistrate judge has an 8 year term (but that’s not as well a protected job)

     

    like this isn’t a pity party for the poor federal judges, but it is a recipe for gutting the profession of, well, professionals

    Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement is a political IQ test

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    9 hours ago, Jwheel86 said:

     

    Why? Fixes the issue of judges with one bend being packed into one District or Circuit. You can't eliminate unqualified judges from the bench, not without a Constitutional Amendment, even then how would you define that? I'm just trying to figure out what's possible with just Congress. I don't think you'd need Senate Confirmation to elevate Appeals Court Judges to SCOTUS since you aren't elevating them, just changing the composition of the Court that it with consist of a Chief Justice and an Appeals Court Judge for each Circuit selected randomly, that's well within Congress's authority to define the courts. Same authority that gives each SCOTUS justice oversight over a specific Circuit. 

    It would take a special kind of person(read: ideologue) to be required to move across the country every five years, and even with a prestigious job of federal judge you’re going to see people not want to uproot their life every single five years. A regular stable of rotating judges term limited in a similar manner to what you described for scotus works just as well at the appellate and district level and again requires no amendment as you can force them into a senior status that already exists. 
     

    When framed in the way you describe I think you’re right with regard to SCOTUS and having a random (or even selected in some other way, I don’t like random) judge from a circuit be elevated to SCOTUS 

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