I was tagged by @anghraine to do this last month and, oh, I may have too many favorite tv shows (but it's where the Character lives, man!)
Rules: make a poll with 10 12* of your favorite shows. They can just be shows you loved watching, or your top TV shows of all time, then tag 10 peopleđş
*I made a list of 12 shows organically and then refused to cut two. It's anarchy! Anarchy over here!
Pick one of my favorite shows!
Battlestar Galactica (2003 - 2009)
The Borgias (2011 - 2013)
The Expanse (2015 - 2022)
Farscape (1999 - 2003)
Good Behavior (2016 - 2017)
Julie and the Phantoms (2020)
LOST (2004 - 2010)
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012 - 2015)
Star Trek: The Original Series (1966 - 1969)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008 - 2009)
Wanted (2016 - 2018)
Xena: Warrior Princess (1995 - 2001)
Voting ended onJul 14
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'All she said was one lie after another. She was just herself, a fraud. But what a remarkable self. Clever, spirited, resourceful. Everything you admired.'
"The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office." (Article III, Section 1) [emphasis added]
Alexander Hamilton would be outraged to know that the current Supreme Court justices assume the Constitution gives them lifetime appointments â regardless of their behavior. He wouldnât understand how any justice could overlook Article III, Section I that states that judges and justices âshall hold their Offices during good Behaviour.â
In the above commentary, Jack Jordan makes an excellent case that the Founders' intentions regarding the tenure of federal justices and judges has been grossly misinterpreted--and by justices who claim to be "originalists." Below are some excerpts:
A favorite falsehood by fake originalists (including those on SCOTUS) is that federal judges have âlife tenureâ or âlifetime appointmentsâ (essentially the right to employment for life). Nothing explicitly or implicitly in our Constitution supports that myth. Often, so-called originalists who assert such falsehoods are lying to us about our Constitution.Â
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Our Constitution (Article III) strongly and clearly emphasized that all federal âJudges,â i.e., âof the supreme [court] and [all] inferior Courts shallâ (and may) âhold their Officesâ only âduring good Behaviour.â This particular principle was discussed repeatedly and in multiple respects during the debates over whether the people should ratify our Constitution. Such discussions are evidence of what the people actually did ratify. Such discussions are evidence of what the people (including Federalists and Antifederalists) understood our Constitution meant.
Some of the most obvious and emphatic statements were by Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist No. 78. Hamilton emphasized that some state âconstitutionsâ already âestablished GOOD BEHAVIOR as the tenure of their judicial officesâ and our Constitution âwould have been inexcusably defective, if it had [failed to include] this important feature of good government.â âThe standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracyâ was carefully (and repeatedly) chosen to be âone of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.â
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[...] Hamilton also emphasized that judges are âservant[s]â or ârepresentative[s]â of âthe people.â We the People used our Constitution (Article III) to impose the âstandard of good behaviorâ on judges as an âexcellent barrier to the encroachments and oppressions of [all our] representative[s]â and âto secure a steady, upright, and impartial administration of the lawsâ by all our public servants.
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Repeatedly, Hamilton and James Madison emphasized similar principles. Ours is âa republic, where every magistrate ought to be personally responsible for his behavior in office.â  The Federalist No. 70 (Hamilton). Having âcourts composed of judges holding their officesâ only âduring good behaviorâ is a âpowerful meansâ for ensuring âthe excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided.â  The Federalist No. 9 (Hamilton). âThe tenure by which the judges are to hold their places, is, as it unquestionably ought to be, that of good behavior.â  The Federalist No. 39 (James Madison).  Only âjudgesâ who âbehave properly, will be secured in their places for life.â  The Federalist No. 79 (Hamilton).
In The Federalist No. 81 (Hamilton) also addressed a particular form of bad judicial behavior that is remarkably common among some SCOTUS justices: âjudgesâ committing âdeliberate usurpationsâ of âauthorityâ that was not delegated to them by our Constitution. Hamilton also emphasized âthe important constitutional check which the power of instituting impeachmentsâ (by the House of Representatives) âand of determining upon themâ (in a trial by the Senate) âwould give toâ Congress as âthe means of punishing [the] presumptionâ of judges usurping powers that the Constitution did not give judges or courts (or to Congress, which creates all federal courts below SCOTUS).
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So the Founders expected federal judges and justices who were not showing "good behavior" to be removed.
This also suggests that they would have expected the Supreme Court to develop a code of ethics that had actual teeth, in addition to the institutional check against bad judicial behavior that they put in place by allowing Congress to impeach corrupt justices.
Unfortunately, the Founders didn't expect that in the future one party in Congress (the Republicans) would be so corrupt that there is no way they would ever impeach the equally corrupt right-wing "politicians in robes" on the current Supreme Court.
Still, anytime a justice asserts that they have tenure for life in an interview, the interviewer might want to remind them about that "good behavior" stipulation in Article III, and ask them how they are making sure they are fulfilling that requirement for their continued tenure.
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because I'm doing this photos of the day clean out my camera roll thing we're just going to start posting the Michelle related things I've saved On This Day to really put myself on blast okay? okay.
If thereâs one show that breaking bad really reminds me of in the structure of cascading criminal misdemeanors played for dry comedy, itâs âgood behaviour,â which often seemed a bit like breaking bad with a stronger sense of humanity and the exact reverse premise - two crooks try to go clean. Or else, unlike Walt bringing trouble cascading down over himself due to his literally breaking bad, letty and Javier bring trouble down when they try to exhibit good behaviour
