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Electing Federal Judges

LetterShould Federal judges be elected? There is now a selection process that elects Federal judges, so the question is: should voters be included? Yes.

Letting the voters in each of the thirteen Federal Districts elect the judges will allow a better examination of candidates and prevent an empty seat because of partisan squabbles. This was one of the reasons for the direct election of US Senators by the Seventeenth Amendment.

There should be an age limit of 70 for all Federal judges, and a term of sixteen years for Supreme Court Justices. Only monarchs and dictators serve for life. Election by the voters will avoid any problem with “court packing”.

The claim that this will create “political influence” is false. Partisan politics let to the Dred Scott decision, and its reversal. So too the 1919 decision that Major League baseball was not subject to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Economic interests drive politics. Businesses favor policies that reward them financially.

Ronald A. Sobieraj

Trump is Right!

Donald Trump is right! Illegal aliens are treated better than our servicemen. When I read that Camden, Fort Lee, Hightstown, Jersey City, Newark, North Bergen, Trenten, Union City and West New York are Sanctuary Cities, I was shocked! It was hard to believe that any town, City or State would allow themselves to be on a list like this.

Where are the elected officials? What kind of Mayor or any Politician in office allows this?

What has happened to my country? The U.S.A. I knew and learned about as a youngster in school? I’m 86 years old and I’m a way us – both locally and all the way up to Washington. We have corruption and greed and Cowards representing us.

Donald Trump will do what he said he can – He doesn’t need anyone’s payoff for favors. So stop voting for the same old phonies. Check him out.

Close those borders. We do not need any more problems.

Mary Vargo

Those Were the Days

When I was growing up in Perth Amboy during the 30’s practically no family had a car. Most of us walked to where ever we were going in town. The schools! The churches! The factories! The theaters! The taverns! (100 of them)! The waterfront! You name it. If we felt rich or just plain lazy or tired there were the busses. Only 5 cents in town. Out of town to Carteret or Woodbridge 15 cents.

The only people with cars were the business and professional people, the clergy, the numbers runners and the mechanically inclined with jalopies. In wintertime Arnold Avenue was our version of Aspen, Colorado. The Arnold Avenue started at Alta Vista Place, the highest point in town and ended past Penn Street. The Johnstone Street had barriers to let the occasional car through during a lull. There was usually a bonfire to warm the sledders!

AH YES! Dear friends! Those were the days when the relatively few cars were a blessing! Not so today! You might say cars are a curse today! There are usually no places to park in the business section. Even the residential sections are overcrowded. Parking spaces are at a premium. Especially galling when a parking meter is in front of a residence. And you have to keep dropping coins into the meter.

Thank you for your courtesies.

Very truly yours,

Peter Book a.k.a. Pedro Libro

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