The good news about this is that representatives and senators from North Dakota won’t be chairing any committees, since they won’t have seniority.
One of my favorite thing about Age being one of the protected classes is that they literally wrote it as "you can’t discriminate by age UNLESS THE PERSON IS TOO YOUNG.
They took the legislation against age discrimination and said only they were allowed to discriminate.
I don’t think people who won’t be around long enough to see the effects of their legislation should be anywhere near the levers of power.
This is our time boomers, fuck off and die already. We will try cleaning up the mess you made of our planet.
I’m on board with some sort of age cap, but it shouldn’t be a specific age/number cutoff.
That number should be dynamic and change according to some other metric like the average life expectancy of someone in that country. Maybe something like 90-95% of the life expectancy of the country?
At least that way we can provide another incentive for politicians to push forward legislation that will help increase the overall life expectancy of the nation as a whole.
The new measure bans people from running for a House or Senate seat in North Dakota “if that person could attain 81 years of age by December 31st of the year immediately preceding the end of the term.”
I know this is for congressional seats, but Biden will be 81 this November and Trump will be 78. Seems like such a coincidental age to pick red state…
