Dems ready to submit a bill giving term limits to SCOTUS. How about you give yourselves term limits, assholes?
(www.reuters.com)
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Didn't the founding fathers not want to put a tangible limit so that judges would not make pandering "legacy" decisions in the same vein as McCain.
yeah, and you dont want judges who move on to sweet lobbying jobs either
People are simply living far longer than the founders could ever imagine. It was an extreme rarity to live past 70 back then and there weren't life extension drugfs or machines available back then. Ruth Ginsberg was basically in a coma for over a year, she was completely incapacitated even 4 years ago and could not do even the simplistic of tasks required to serve in the court. This wasnt even a thing back then, once you went senile you had, at most 2 years or so to live, today its well over a decade. It really should be around 18 years, yes what you say may be true but so would anyone else who was about to retire or near death do as well. Kennedy did this with the gay marriage ruling and then retired 3 years later.
Not true. If you made it past 30 you were likely to live in to your 70s. Lots more people died young which brought down the average.
Ben Franklin was there at the constitutional convention and he was like 80.
Life expectancy was around 60 years of age or less. Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were outliers. They were wealthy enough to be taken care of while the majority of people could not.
Because life expectancy counts everyone. Infant mortality and young people died in accidents at a much higher rate then than they do now, which lowers the life expectancy.
But like I said, if you made it to 30 or 35, you probably made it to 70. Old people were less common, but it wasn't a rarity.