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> What we absolutely need to avoid is having justices have to care about reelection

It's an appointment, so they would only have to convince the president. Or you can prevent reappointment at all.

Ok "reelection" is the wrong term, but if anything this is worse, because if judges can have multiple terms then it means they're beholden to the current president when their term ends and therefore will be heavily swayed by party politics. This is why judgeships are normally lifetime roles, though the important part of "lifetime role" is "only one term" and not "never ends".

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