I dont understand..I work in a skilled profession and Im

[INdemo]

required to take a drug test at strict interrvals. I also know that in many other professions drug screening is required before employment (Education field)

So why in the hell isn't an applicant for the SCOTUS required to submit to drug screening.?

Or even a seat in Congress.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Because they are privileged and elite and more important than you

so the rules don't apply. I also had to take a drug/alcohol pre-employment test at my old job and we were subject to random testing (aviation). But members of the SCOTUS apparently don't have to be sober when at their jobs. I am wondering whether the expression "sober as a judge" makes a whole lot of sense any more.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. It makes perfect sense.

We just missed the irony all these years.

[marylandblue]

2. Because there were no drug tests in 1789

[lunatica]

6. Congress could pass a law requiring drug testing

But I doubt they ever will.

[brooklynite]

12. No they couldn't...

The criteria for a seat in Congress are specified in the Constitution. Nothing more can be added without an amendment.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. The Originalist's Stock Answer

You're right. I just KNOW that they would say this.

[marylandblue]

13. Exactly. Our Constitution needs an overhaul.

But that would be such a bug fight, we are going to keep chugging along with this one until it breaks completely.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Turning the nation into a land of pincushions and test kits is not the solution.

[democratisphere]

4. Privalage.

Anyone running for office should be required to take a drug test and especially a personalty disorder test. drumpf and Kavanaugh would have failed miserably.

[lunatica]

5. Good question

I guess it would have to be a law passed by Congress.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

8. I was in the Navy Reserve, we took a drug test every drill,

once a month?

12 times a year!

[flt rsk]

9. Drug test

Once, when I was in a job interview, I was told that there would be drug testing. I said, “Great, which ones”. They apparently found a more qualified person.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Or even the president...I've seen him sniffling/snorting an awful lot. And do it via ...

a secure, independent means, not tied to the president's office, Congress, or the Supreme Court. Totally independent. Why not? Are they above the law? NO. No one in this country is.

I remember the two doctors rump had who supposedly gave him such a bullshit diagnosis of being the healthy president ever...