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O-uknow

Should FBI directors have life long positions like Supreme Court Judges?

So they can't be fired for being too lenient or too aggressive and while giving a speech?

Posted - May 10, 2017
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  • Remaining in any position should be merit based.
      May 10, 2017 8:27 AM MDT
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  • 5614
    Well we then have the predicaments we find ourselves in.
      May 10, 2017 9:54 AM MDT
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  • What predicaments and how does this follow from my response?
      May 10, 2017 7:56 PM MDT
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  • 5614
    Trump fired Comey and any president can fire the current F.B.I director even if he is being investigated by him.
      May 11, 2017 7:19 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    I'm not in favor of lifetime positions - not even on the Supreme Court.  I think when you know you can't be fired, you could find yourself slacking off and not doing the best job you can. 
      May 10, 2017 8:52 AM MDT
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  • 5614
    Well we then have the predicaments we find ourselves in.
      May 10, 2017 9:55 AM MDT
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  • 3191
    Nobody in government should have lifetime appointments.  
      May 10, 2017 8:54 AM MDT
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  • 5614
    Well we then have the predicaments we find ourselves in.
      May 10, 2017 9:55 AM MDT
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  • 3191
    How so?  Currently, SC justices do have lifetime positions.  As to the rest, they never have had.
      May 10, 2017 10:07 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    I think Leslie Stahl was interviewing the Chief Justice of the Ninth Circuit who said his was a lifetime appointment. 
      May 10, 2017 12:58 PM MDT
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  • 3191
    Yes, I misspoke, Art. III federal judges are lifetime appointments.  I do not think they should be lifetime, either, but certainly not the Director of the FBI...look at the BS Hoover did. This post was edited by Bozette at May 10, 2017 9:42 PM MDT
      May 10, 2017 1:15 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    The only reason I discovered federal judges were lifetime appointment was because of that 60 Minutes interview.  I thought only the Supreme Court of the U.S. was lifetime.
      May 10, 2017 9:43 PM MDT
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  • 3191
    Appellate, district, and judges on the Court of International Trade are lifetime appointments.  Some others, like magistrates and bankruptcy judges, have set terms.
      May 10, 2017 10:17 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    Thank you. :)
      May 11, 2017 8:49 AM MDT
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