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This is why there should be term limits on judges and legislators.
by tomohawk 4y ago
This is why there should be term limits on judges and legislators.
- dredmorbius 4y ago"This" referring to Posner's Alzheimers diagnosis six months after retirement? <https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/after-posner-retired-7th-circuit-grim-diagnosis-brewing-battle-2022-03-29/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/after-posner-retire...> As the Reuters article notes, Posner himself called for mandatory judicial retirement at age 80.
- Kon-Peki 4y agoThe federal judiciary has a sort-of mandatory retirement [1]. After age 65, you fall out of the random case assignment pool and can only be appointed to a case for special reasons, such as case overload or special prosecutions. Most judges cannot handle this change to relative obscurity and irrelevance, and fully retire. Only the most dedicated continue. [1] https://www.uscourts.gov/faqs-federal-judges#faq-What-is-a-senior-judge https://www.uscourts.gov/faqs-federal-judges#faq-What-is-a-s...? > Senior judges, who essentially provide volunteer service to the courts, typically handle about 15 percent of the federal courts' workload annually.