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
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    5 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
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      5 months ago

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

      • 4am@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

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

        • emax_gomax@lemmy.world
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          4 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 :/.

        • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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          5 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?

        • AeroLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
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          5 months ago

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