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Really this should be a bipartisan issue. Lifetime appointments are a perfect fit for ethics violations.

Isn't it the exact opposite?

If you need to get reelected every few years, you need some help. It would be easy to compromise.

If you don't need to get reelected ever for the rest of your life, why would you compromise?

It already is a bipartisan "issue" - removal of a Justice is an impeachment process.

Sure, but that ignores how the process is actually working in practice. The number of successful Supreme Court impeachments (only 1, over the course of more than 100 years) should tell you that the system as-is isn’t working.

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