It would be cool to be president.
I mean, you get great bragging rights at your high school reunion, and I bet it’s a real power trip when you’re deciding the fate of the world during closed-door meetings with foreign heads of state.
The day some mysterious agency member hands over the Area 51 files is probably a highlight.
Maybe someone comes and briefs you on what really happened to Jimmy Hoffa and why Princess Diana’s car actually crashed.
Probably the coolest, and one of the most important, things the person we elect Tuesday will get to do is appoint at least one new Supreme Court Justice.
You’re probably wondering how that could possibly compare to taking a peak inside the Roswell files, but I think it definitely does.
It’s one area that the president has a huge amount of control over. Once the president nominates someone, only the Senate must approve him or her. Of the last 148 nominees, only 12 have been rejected.
In the next four years, there’s a solid chance one of the current justices will either step down or become unable to continue their duties because youth is definitely not something in abundance when the nine justices gather.
Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy are 72, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 75 and John Paul Stevens is 88. My grandfather is 87, and he sleeps 16 hours a day.
There’s no way he spends the day listening to oral arguments and writing opinions. Then again, I wouldn’t want him to because the Supreme Court justices make decisions that matter to all of us.
Brown v. Board of Education found that separate but equal is not constitutional.
Roe v. Wade found that state laws barring abortion are unconstitutional.
Texas v. Johnson decided burning an American flag is not a criminal act.
Once the Supreme Court makes a decision, no other court can review or overturn that decision.
Those are choices I don’t want just any person to make for me, so I’ll be thinking about that when I cast my ballot Tuesday.
Ginsburg, Stevens, David Souter and Stephen Breyer are the justices most likely to vote along the liberal point of view, and with Stevens closing in on 90 and Ginsburg, a cancer survivor, nearing 80, two of the left-leaning judges may be replaced in the next few years.
If replaced by two conservative judges, the makeup of the court will be drastically different, and the decisions they make will affect the American legal system.<br/>That may be cooler than aliens.That may be cooler than aliens.
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