Do we really want lifetime tenure for Supreme Court justices? . . . 220 years ago life expectancy wasn't what it is today and the courts had yet to claim the power of "judicial review," . . . For the Founders, the courts did not exercise the sweeping, unaccountable power they do now. That's one reason why many people are now coming around to the notion of instituting an 18-year term limit on Supreme Court justices. . . .RTWT.
[M]any justices stay long past their prime. . . . Chief Justice William Rehnquist was unable to attend oral arguments this past winter and spring.
. . . William O. Douglas . . . refused to leave after an incapacitating stroke. . . . A weakened Thurgood Marshall often looked to his fellow octogenarian William Brennan on how to vote because he no longer could hear well enough to understand the arguments other justices made during their conferences.
"18 Years Is Long Enough It's time for term limits for Supreme Court justices." By John Fund, Warped Street Journal, 7/25/05 (no emphasis added).
2 comments:
Hello Sr, Col. B. Bunny
I have just now found your web site, on - 04/01/08...and I have found it to be a very excellent one.
I was visiting your past posts looking for any comments you might have made regarding the Supreme courts KELO decision on 07/23/05, because my property is one of my main interests, However, I have also found that you also have many other points of interests on this blog that also favor my other concerns as well. I will be visiting your web as often as I can because I have found it to be one of foremost, integrity. I probably will not be commenting on your posts very much, in the near future, because I am very busy for now researching my Constitution and Supreme court cases. I could not find a way to E-Mail you, this, so I hope you will excuse my improprieties. I just wanted you to know, that I will be visiting, and I wanted to send some encouragement.
I had thought about term limits for the Supreme court just this morning, and I have found myself inclined to agree with this post.
PS..When you write in yellow, I can not read it.
Dear JMB,
Thanks for your comments. I'm glad you like my blog. It's very eclectic, covering a host of issues such as my disdain for Islam, my contempt for the contemptible dishonesty about race in the U.S., my reverence for limited government, and . . . um . . . well, those.
My insights into Kelo are not particularly profound. Public use doesn't mean private use and I don't see how replacing one perfectly good private house with another perfectly good private house transforms the use into a public one. It might be a good thing for a different kind of neighborhood to be developed but someone had to be tossed out of their home just for a development. A proper concern for the rights of citizens would have left the developer with land it purchased and land held by uncooperative homeowners. Who cares that the development wouldn't have been uniform? God forbid developments shouldn't be uniform and sterile, as they are when the developer owns all the property.
Sorry about the yellow text that you see in places. It got left that way when I learned to use cascading style sheets more effectively. I've fixed it a few places but probably should study on how to insert a fix in my current style sheet.
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