Bruce – here is your answer with specificity.

1) the SCOTUS justices are appointed with tenure for life. They are not elected, they are not fired. They can only be impeached by the House and removed by the Senate for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The reason for their lifetime tenure is to enable them to make decisions free from any pressure by the executive or legislative branches of government. Since the Supreme Court first convened in 1790, there have been 113 justices and only one (Samuel Chase in the early 1800s) ever has been impeached.

2) the SCOTUS HAS disagreed with sex offender laws in several shapes and forms, most recently in Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 – Supreme Court 2017 (where they held sex offender laws cannot ban someone from social media) or Nichols v. US, 136 S. Ct. 1113 – Supreme Court 2016 (where they reversed a conviction of someone who failed to register a move outside the country, finding the sex offender law could not apply). They also, recently, denied certiorary in Snyder upholding the 6th Circuit decision on the retroactively of sex offender laws). The sitting justices (absent Gorsuch, who was just appointed) were all part of these decisions and they are all still around the court and their careers and lives are not over.

3) Take, for example, retiring Justice Kennedy, who was the swing vote in some landmark cases such as Obergefell v. Hodges (2015 – effectively legalizing gay marriage), Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010- campaign contributions are protected by the first amendment), Roper v. Simmons (2005 – death penalty for juveniles constitutes cruel and unusual punishment), and who cannot forget Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992 – which upheld Roe v. Wade – a woman’s right to an abortion). These are all cases where one justice’s vote could have swayed the direction of these laws one way or the other.

We don’t need your wishes for good luck!

It doesn’t matter who gets in there nor does it matter their beliefs weather all these sex laws are constitutional or not, they know just like the rest sitting in this court that if they even hint that they disagree with the sex offender laws in any way shape or form they wont be around that court for long and their career and life as they know it is over. And FAC, I asked you this question last week but for some reason you chose not to publish my question/post. Maybe you have had time to think it over. When you say [10000% it does] matter who gets in there could you please explain exactly how it will matter and please be specific. Good luck.

I would rather have a justice on the court who will be there for only 10 years but will follow the US Constitution regardless of his/her party affiliation, than to have someone there for 40 years who will trample the US Constitution and base decisions on personal and politically driven reasoning.

Gerald that was exactly my take on the issue. Anyone over 60 is definitely out, anyone over 50 maybe 5% Chance.That narrows it down considerably.

Let us not forget Obama signed IML even after numerous emails and letters from us and our advocates denouncing it. One of the best rulings in our favor was from the 6th circuit where conseratives placed by George Bush found the registry full of shit. Then Donald Trumps DOJ confirmed their ruling. There are as many democrats on the registry as republicans. So lets cut the bullshit. It’s definitely going to depend on the mind set of the newly appointed Justice, liberal or conservative…

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That type of thinking its detrimental to society. These are positions of authority that affect every American whether directly or indirectly.

This also applies to every elected position being sought on state levels.

Still think it doesn’t matter who gets elected where? Assuming you have the right to vote but chose not to? You also have no place in complaining about who is in office.

Well, as for abortion, the good news is that we have managed to kill 50 million people since the early 1970’s, the majority of whom would have likely grown up and voted Democrat. That should make conservatives happy. If we keep this up, this problem should eventually take care of itself. (insert FAC official Swiftian sarcasm warning here) 😉

10000% it does

Does anybody really think it matters who gets in there??????????????

As long as our leaders let emotion, paranoia, and false information rule their decisions we will continue to see this nation move further and further from our founding Constitution and who knows what negative consequences will take place if that is allowed to continue ? The place to update the Constitution is in Congress and at the voting polls, not at some judge’s desk. Until there is an amendment that has not yet been incorporated through the established process, we must insist on the original intent as put forth in writing by our Founding Fathers. Part of our problem is that either too many of our citizens are ‘clueless’ as to what is in the Constitution or they just don’t care and want do do whatever ‘feels good’ at the time. Example…where in the Constitution does a woman have the right to ‘murder’ an unborn human baby…article and section? She has the right to refuse sex or if forced, she has the right to see the perpetrator pay for the dastardly deed. The baby is nothing more than an innocent bystander and deserves a chance at life. We throw around the term ‘constitutional’ far too often with nothing in the Constitution to back it up.