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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 02:38 PM
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Poll: Most Support Justice Retirement Age (AP/Yahoo)
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Poll: Most Support Justice Retirement Age
By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON
- Six in 10 Americans say there should be a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices, according to an Associated Press poll. The survey found public support for an idea that has arisen periodically in Congress without ever making headway.

Only one of the nine current justices is younger than 65. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, 80, appointed to the court by President Nixon, has thyroid cancer. In the survey, people were asked if they could identify what job Rehnquist held, and 59 percent did not know.

The appointment of justices without term limits or a mandatory retirement age historically has helped to insulate the court from politics, said Dennis Hutchinson, a Supreme Court expert from the University of Chicago Law School. At the same time, that can have the unintended consequence of letting some justices serve beyond their most effective years.

Oh boy, here we go! Now you just freakin' know this is the next thing they're going to go for in trying to overturn R v W

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