The U.S. Marshals office said that Kentrell Flowers, 18, allegedly walked up to one of the deputies’ cars at around 1:15 a.m. and pointed a gun at the bodyguard.
  • robocall@lemmy.world
    15·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • logicbomb@lemmy.world
    186·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      10 months ago

      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,)

    • Burninator05@lemmy.world
      71·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • logicbomb@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        A carjacker pulled a gun on a person sitting in a car in front of Justice Sotomayor’s home, a place where it’s very possible that she might have been. It doesn’t matter whether she was targeted or not. If she dies for whatever reason, it’s a concern. Whoever Biden appoints would have to pass the Senate with the current razor thin majority.

        Had she been in the car for some reason, then we might have another Ruth Bader Ginsberg moment, and in the worst case scenario, Trump could get reelected and appoint somebody for a 7-2 conservative majority in the Supreme Court.

        Don’t get stuck in the idea that lifetime appointments are only a problem for assassinations. Ginsberg died of natural causes, and see what that got us.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 months ago

    The random shout out to Nicholas Roske at the end of the article reminded me of his story. I sympathize with him. I guess that’s the reason there are political assassinations of progressive heroes like MLK and JFK, but there aren’t any of regressive cunts like kavenaugh. It’s because progressives have a conscious.