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Comment by moscovium | Hacker News Reader

"... with justices talking over each other and pontificating more than questioning..."

lmao all workplaces are the same

I imagine it could be significantly worse than what most people experience when you throw lifetime appointments into the mix.

And published transcripts of every interaction that is analyzed by law students all over the country, possibly for centuries after your death.

It's almost as if the pontifications are important.

Which it's best not to say anything, and do the important work in clear, researched writing.

Lifetime *political* appointments lol

Yup. There should be no politics in any court. Only law.

And the law is written by...

People who say, "eeh, we'll let the judges figure this part out."

If there is one thing that the Founding Fathers got wrong, it is this: Supreme Court appointments should not be lifetime. Immune to politics, sure - Once they're in, they cannot be removed for term, maybe, but I believe that they should be fixed-term, not forever

What I would propose is thus: Each president should be allowed one appointment, 40 year fixed terms. Same confirmation rules, but rather than the vagaries of when justices step down or die, we have a floating pool of 7-10 justices at any time with new ones being added at a fixed rate.

40years is exactly the problem. 12-20 is reasonable.

Canadian justices must retire at 75.

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