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How vulnerable are various Western Supreme Courts from devolving into the mockery that is the current US one? (lemmy.world)

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 9 points 4 months ago

I remember being taught in school all of those, and the fact that justices not being elected or having term limits meant that they were 100% not swayed by anything other than justice. A very noble idea I respect, but we see obviously that anyone is corruptable. I see very few judges now who aren't electable. They don't run under a platform, they have agendas and it's not perfect - but it's better than our system where we're stuck until they die - and then we're at the mercy of whoever the flavor of the month is.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

Yeah… the older I’ve gotten, the more obvious it’s become that civics/social studies classes related to American government in high school were mostly just hilariously abstracted theoretical bullshit.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 4 months ago

I very clearly remember thinking "I'm so glad America solved corruption"

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