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From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Our next prime minister will be Mark Carney
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:30:10 -0400
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On 2025-03-10 3:17 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2025 at 12:06:16 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-03-10 1:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>   On Mar 10, 2025 at 6:05:28 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
>>>   wrote:
>>>   
>>>>   The Liberal leadership convention has finally chosen a new leader and,
>>>>   to the shock of almost no one, Mark Carney is the winner. (He got 86% of
>>>>   the votes from Liberal Party members, runner up Chrystia Freeland got
>>>>   less than 10%.) That means he will become our next prime minister as
>>>>   soon as Trudeau formally steps down, which is expected in the next few
>>>>   days.
>>>>
>>>>   Carney's term as PM may well be rather brief. He's widely expected to
>>>>   call an election in the next few weeks, hoping to use a renewed interest
>>>>   in the Liberal Party to win. I sincerely hope that voters are not
>>>>   fooled: the Liberals have only put lipstick on the pig that is their
>>>>   party and will maintain all the same policies as under Trudeau with the
>>>>   exception of the much-despised carbon tax. But Carney is even more
>>>>   fanatical about Net Zero than Trudeau was and has promised to replace
>>>>   the carbon tax with something even more effective - i.e. even more
>>>>   destructive of the Canadian economy - so that we can meet his carbon
>>>>   reduction goals.
>>>>
>>>>   But at least the odious Justin Trudeau is finally on his way out so
>>>>   we'll be spared having to endure his performative virtue-signalling.
>>>>
>>>>   By the way, Carney has never stood for elected office before and has no
>>>>   seat in Parliament, meaning he will not actually be able to participate
>>>>   in parliamentary sessions directly. He'll have to delegate others in his
>>>>   cabinet to do the things that a prime minister usually does. There's
>>>>   precedent for this though so procedures are in place.
>>>   
>>>   Most people don't know that our Speaker of the House-- third in line to the
>>>   presidency-- doesn't have to be a member of Congress. It's a long-standing
>>>   tradition that the Speaker is elected from within the ranks of Congress, but
>>>   there's no legal or constitutional requirement that he/she has to be a
>>> member.
>>>   They could literally elect anyone if they have the votes to do it, although
>>>   one assumes whomever they elect would have to meet the qualifications for
>>> the
>>>   presidency since they would be in the line of succession.
>>>   
>> That's interesting; I never knew that. It reminds me that I have a
>> similar question I've been meaning to ask for a long time: do Supreme
>> Court Justices have to have experience as lower court judges? Do they
>> even have to have law degrees? I wonder if a President could propose
>> someone that is just very well regarded as a wise man or woman? Could
>> the Senate confirm such a person or are their laws that would prevent it?
> 
> The president can nominate anyone as a justice. They don't need to be former
> judges or justices or even lawyers. The president could nominate the White
> House janitor to the Supreme Court and if he could pass Senate confirmation,
> he'd be a SCOTUS justice.

Awesome! I really like that there is no formal - and therefore 
artificial/arbitrary - restrictions on who can be chosen for SCOTUS. 
Sometimes, you encounter a person that is just plain wise who has no 
formal qualifications. I think someone like that could do a terrific job 
in the Supreme Court by simply applying common sense.

I cringed when Justice Jackson couldn't/wouldn't answer the question 
"what is a woman" in a straightforward way but claimed it to be a 
complex question. She's the exact OPPOSITE of the kind of person who 
should be a Justice.

> 
> That's why I throw my name in every time there's a vacancy. So far, both
> Democrats and Republicans have shunned me.
> 
> 


-- 
Rhino