There should be a mandatory retirement age of 70 for all 3 branches.
Turning 70 before your potential 4 yr term would be up? Then you cannot run. Same for the senate. We would know ahead of time which Presidential term would be replacing SCOTUS, unless that justice chose to retire early.
I feel like if we have a minimum age of 35 for a President, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to have a maximum age of 70, which is double the minimum age.
I really think that anyone who is eligible to retire and draw Social Security should be aged out of public office. I wish that older people in government would retire and go enjoy their lives.
The Boomers got that opportunity from the generations before them. (Bill Clinton took office when he was 46. That was 32 years ago.) They have held on to power for far longer than is reasonable. Gen X never really expected to make a difference, but it would have been nice to at least have had the opportunity to try.
There should be a mandatory retirement age of 70 for all 3 branches.
Turning 70 before your potential 4 yr term would be up? Then you cannot run. Same for the senate. We would know ahead of time which Presidential term would be replacing SCOTUS, unless that justice chose to retire early.
Struck down immediately by a senile supreme Court.
Although, in this case, his age is a good thing. If he was younger and sharper, then America would be stuck with him for a lot longer.
Yeah, sorry your palm flower is flashing, gotta go before it turns black.
I do love (now) obscure sci fi references. Whatever happened to Michael York?
You’d have a hard time to demonstrate this is not discrimination against old people.
I feel like if we have a minimum age of 35 for a President, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to have a maximum age of 70, which is double the minimum age.
I really think that anyone who is eligible to retire and draw Social Security should be aged out of public office. I wish that older people in government would retire and go enjoy their lives.
The Boomers got that opportunity from the generations before them. (Bill Clinton took office when he was 46. That was 32 years ago.) They have held on to power for far longer than is reasonable. Gen X never really expected to make a difference, but it would have been nice to at least have had the opportunity to try.
I mean, it is 100% discrimination against people who are too old to do the job, yes.
Huh. I just saw that you need to be 30 to run for Senate in the US…
Please ignore my first comment :)