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And?

• adastra22 4y ago
  (1) it is not the case that they serve lifetime appointments "because they don't want to give up power." They serve lifetime appointments because the framers of the constitution decided it was better for the court to be structured that way hundreds of years before they were born. (2) Forcing them to give up power, as you put it, would require a constitutional amendment, which is not something any one person can do.
  • danenania 4y ago
    What I'm questioning is that the motivation for lifetime appointments ever had anything to do with avoiding political interference. Regardless of the claimed justification, I think lifetime appointments were just a naked, cynical power grab by factions that favored oligarchy over democracy, and have remained so to this day.