Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on the floor the justices' refusal to recuse themselves from certain prominent cases “represents an abuse of power and threat to our democracy."
    • ceenote@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      I was gonna say she’s too young, but apparently she’d turn 35 about a month before the election. A president who’s barely old enough… What a nice change of pace that would be.

      • Beaver@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        That requirement is so ageist as the brain is fully developed at age 26

        • 4am@lemm.ee
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          6 months ago

          The idea is to have some experience in politics in lower positions before taking on the hot seat.

          • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
            1·
            6 months ago

            I’m just upset that there’s no maximum age limit. If they are fine with a minimum why isn’t there a maximum?

          • emax_gomax@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 months ago

            I feel like mandating a certain number of years in some managerial governmental position would be more effective. Trump is basically a living example of how to get around that. Honestly a lot of democracy kinda assumes people elect competent and honest leaders and a lot of humanity are just brainwashed morons so we’re stuck with what we got :/.

          • AeroLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
            0·
            6 months ago

            So it’s okay to have a constitutionally-mandated age requirement, but not a no-treason requirement?