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Would you support a mandatory retirement age of 75 for US House, US Senate & US Supreme Court Justices and if not why? (self.asklemmy)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Ah, the Athenian model.

I think having some kind of required civics course for the random sounds appointees would do well. Legal language exists for reasons that go beyond being deliberately obtuse, so it could still be used to try and reduce ambiguity