Should Supreme Court Judges Change

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People say that every professor uses its own books when they go teach a class. It should be the same way for Presidents and the makeup of the Supreme Court. In Article III it states that a once elected into the Supreme Court judges can stay in power for as long as they want. Having the Supreme Court judges stay in power for as long as they want is not good. Judges see the world differently from what it was to what it is now, the president should be able to choose who is on his “team”, and finally it stops the fear of the citizens of a bad choice for justice.

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The first reason the law should change is that Judges see the world differently from what it was to what it is now. For example, Antonin Scalia was on the Supreme Court from 1986 to 2016.30 years is a lot of time, with a lot of time usually comes a lot of change. This can be seen very clearly in the United States. One major difference that has occurred is the internet. In the 80’s there wasn't any phones or any computers. This meant that if you had a …show more content…

For example, the president appoints the Cabinet. Donald Trump is now appointing treasury secretary, attorney general, and CIA director. This means that when a president is appointed they bring in people that they choose. Meaning that when the people voted for Trump they had at least a good idea of who he was going to nominate in certain positions. There was controversy with Senator Jeff Sessions being nominated by Trump for Attorney general between the Democrats.There is also controversy with who Trump is going to pick for the Supreme Court (Yuhas, Alan).The change in law will fix this because new judges will be elected more often, allowing the people to know who they vote for (certain people) when voting for the president .That is why having the president choose who he wants as Judges is the second reason the law should be

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