[kittymyrib]

When you depend on Squirrely Girl O'Connor to pull your chestnuts out of the fire after signing a bill, you are really courting disaster. Why did we ever get the idea of appointing justices for life, when life in colonial days was 50 years and now it's 90, with senility guiding our laws as a result.

[My2Cents]

Why did we ever get the idea of appointing justices for life, when life in colonial days was 50 years and now it's 90, with senility guiding our laws as a result.

Best comment on the thread. What I'd like to know is why these justices hang on, through illness and the ravages of age, simply to do their damage on the republic. One would think that after a justice turned, oh, 80, they'd want to retire and spend their remaining years lecturing about how the nation has been screwed over by the courts.