(February 15, 2016 at 12:20 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: I haven't read the whole thread, so please forgive me if this has already been brought up, but the next time we have a Constitutional Convention, maybe we should put a retirement age on Supreme Court justices as an alternative to waiting for them to die.
Glad you brought that up, which makes Scalia even more of an idiot trying to claim that the original words are set in stone. There is a provision set up in the Constitution to periodically review it. Now, while I still think it is solid, what Scalia ignored is that everything about our three branch system is an anti trust concept that no one branch, not even the voters have absolute power. Not even the SCOTUS rulings are set in stone, because a president can nominate a judge and future courts can reverse prior courts. The founders Idea was to prevent any rise of a monopoly of power. I think Scalia stupidly and wrongfully viewed it through his own religious political view, and that is not what the founders intended.
The Constitution is still solid, but there has never been a party monopoly on who uses it or who controls it.