If it outlives its use, can we pull the plug?
Rockaway Park: After the unusual judgments the Supreme Court has issued, I’m starting to marvel if we actually want them. I’m not conscious of another nations having a system like ours, and the lifetime tenure legislation was made underneath the mistaken perception that if the justices are given assurances that they are going to be capable to keep in energy for so long as they need, they won’t be affected by exterior influences.
That would work if, for instance, the justices have been at all times sequestered in a room like jurors who should determine on a verdict, however that isn’t the case. They go dwelling to their households on daily basis like atypical employees, are capable of learn the newspapers, magazines, watch their favourite information applications, have spouses who may need jobs which might be affected by their selections, and so forth.
It appears as if lifetime tenure is admittedly too lengthy, particularly within the case of the current Supreme Court, whose members are biased by their faith and by their spouses. We have an entire different system of legal guidelines that work completely high-quality for us. We have the president and vice chairman and the 2 branches of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives. We even have lesser courts that may determine on legal guidelines that come up for renewal or debate.
Let’s shut down the Supreme Court. It is clearly biased and we now have no method of voting these biased folks out! Ruth Graves
Fine print
Bronx: To those that assume they see in the present day’s “Red & Rover” comedian on-line, check out the copyright date. You are studying reruns from the identical day in 2019. Marc Menchise
Put children first
Brooklyn: If we actually care about youngsters and the way forward for the U.S., we have to help public schooling to a a lot better extent. Slashing college budgets and treating lecturers poorly is disgraceful. People who gripe about their actual property taxes present little respect for the kids and colleges of their area. Too many politicians and TV present hosts make ridiculous statements about college curriculum and wish to interject spiritual beliefs as a substitute. Stop making public colleges a battleground. Increase funding for the advantage of our younger folks. Ellen Levitt
Campaign crap
Great Neck, L.I.: The 2022 Democratic and Republican Party congressional and state Senate major has come and gone. This jogs my memory of “The Outer Limits,” a Sixties tv present. With the tip of round the clock commercials by politicians, political motion teams and pay-for-play particular curiosity teams, we now return management of your tv again to you till the November normal election cycle. No extra candidates’ marketing campaign mailings clogging mailboxes and weighing down our hard-working postal workers. Finally, some peace and quiet! Now, if solely all of the profitable and shedding candidates would choose up the hundreds of marketing campaign indicators that litter our roads and highways to scrub up the environment. Candidates’ marketing campaign volunteers and paid employees who positioned indicators can accumulate and correctly eliminate them. Why not even have some who’ve been sentenced to group service assist out as nicely? Larry Penner
Electo-rate migration
Marlboro, N.J.: To Voicer Mel Moskowitz: Great thought you needed to relocate and swing the states from pink to blue. Genius! Uproot all you’ve got — household, mates, your job! — and head northwest, younger (or outdated) women and men. When are you heading out? Lead the best way, we’ll meet ya there. Howie Winick
Bordering on madness
Mastic, L.I.: The actuality is everyone knows what the issue is: an incompetent President Biden, an incompetent vice chairman and a Democratic Party that helps the catastrophe at our southern border. The border states are being overrun with unlawful immigrants, drug traffickers and criminals. Biden and his administration simply ignore the mess they created and faux all is nicely. Well, it’s time to point out all of them isn’t nicely. We should proceed to ship these migrants to all these ultra-liberal states that need open borders. Let them take care of this. Send them to NYC, California, D.C., Delaware, Chicago, Philadelphia, and so forth. and make them pay for a completely pointless drawback they created by not closing the borders. We can’t have or help an uncontrollable immigration coverage. It’s not sustainable. Gene Lindsay
Full transparency
Holliswood: To Voicer Tom McGuire: First, please don’t deliver my mom into any disagreement you’ve got with my letter. Second, work in your studying comprehension abilities. Since our governor desires “transparency,” I wrote that anybody who will get a authorities test or profit must be public data — wealthy, middle-class or poor makes no distinction. Transparency is transparency. Gregory W. Chupa
Strings hooked up?
Valhalla, N.Y.: I’m glad that we as a rustic are serving to Ukraine vs. the menaces in Russia. A query: All these billions of {dollars} we’re spending there, is it a present or a mortgage that we anticipate to saddle on Ukraine to make their lives extra depressing after this b.s. warfare? Like many Americans, I’m positive, I will likely be okay with it being a real reward of assist for Ukraine, however is that the best way it’s? Many Americans wish to know. Thank you, Mr. Biden — when you’re even conscious of what’s occurring! Michael Grisanti
Sweet aid
Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.: I’ve actually been having fun with the Putin value discount on my gasoline. Just yesterday, it solely value me $75 to refill my SUV. Thanks, Vladimir! Michael P. Devine
Lamentable litmus check
Ozone Park: The column by Chris Thurman (”Thank you, Donald Trump, might we now have one other?” op-ed, Aug. 24) as soon as once more spelled out the trauma and suspicion wrought by Trump on this nation. It has gotten so unhealthy that I’m now hesitant to say something that may very well be misconstrued as exhibiting that I’m a Trump hater. In the again of my thoughts, I believe, “Is this person who I have known for a long time a Trump devotee and is he marking me for being anti-Trump?” This paranoia has to cease. Ray Hackinson
Viral overload
Forest Hills: Tuesday’s “Bramhall’s World” cartoon brilliantly captures the dual realities relating to the current announcement made by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the preeminent infectious illness skilled within the nation, to retire on the finish of this 12 months and the lingering poisonous results of getting Donald J. Trump nonetheless within the American zeitgeist. He positively has unfold a illness apart from COVID all all through his one disastrous time period in workplace. It’s referred to as “Trumpism” and it doesn’t seem like waning anytime quickly. May I supply a treatment: Indict the lawless ex-president already! This may very well be step one in having him assume a much less distinguished place in American politics. Ron Gersh
Swindle-speak
Fairfield, Conn.: I wish to thank Voicer Gabriel Pompe for my snigger of the day. He mentioned, “Trump is a breath of fresh air compared to most mealy-mouthed politicos who are terrified to give a straight answer until they run it by a focus group.” Did you really use the phrases Trump and straight reply in the identical sentence? I’m nonetheless chuckling. Thanks, Gabriel! Stephen Johnson
Easier listening
Garwood, N.J.: Full disclosure, I’m a lifelong Yankee fan. But on Tuesday night time, the sport vs. the Mets was being proven solely on Amazon Prime and I refuse to pay $1 extra above my cable sports activities package deal to both the Yankees, YES Network or particularly Jeff Bezos. So what I did for less than the second time in my life — I watched the sport on SportsNet New York, the Mets channel. Listening to Gary Thorne, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez was such a breath of recent air in comparison with the egomaniac Michael Kay and metrics mush-mouth David Cone. He and all the opposite Yank announcers by no means have the nerve to inform Kay he’s unsuitable, regardless of the topic. The Mets announcers didn’t speak your entire sport about themselves or dwell on the previous for 9 innings. It’s too unhealthy the Yanks and YES don’t get up and produce some new and fascinating voices into the sales space. John Deichmeister
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