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The New DU. Reply #9: Shorter terms would lead to political pressures, whether they can be renominated or not.
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Occam Bandage
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Fri May-01-09 01:15 PM
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| 9. Shorter terms would lead to political pressures, whether they can be renominated or not. |
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Edited on Fri May-01-09 01:15 PM by Occam Bandage
A 50-year-old appointee would naturally have as a concern getting a job upon leaving office at 60--meaning they would be concerned with not just the law, but also with pleasing potential allies/employers. The last thing we would need is a justice in their ninth year casting a deciding vote in favor of corporations in a labor-law case because they've been offered a plush, multi-million-dollar job at a corporate think-tank after their retirement in a year.
Better to let them have the Supreme Court until they retire.
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