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Originally Posted by Wagner
Once you go fascist you never go back  |
Federal judgeship appointments are for life. Once appointed, judges are no longer beholden to the large corporations and lobbies that helped them to move up the ladder, so they can now vote their conscience. Of course, this is the reason that such appointments are for life -- to reduce the chance of a judge being compromised by outside influences.
If you were to change the rules so that judgeship appointments were for 5 years, this phenomenon of conservative judges becoming liberal would disappear.
And BTW, I know you were joking, but Fascism is on the far RIGHT of the political spectrum, not the left.
A political ideology chart from a conservative source:
