Editorial | 'What happens when a court with lifetime appointments goes rogue at the same time as lapses in ethics are exposed?'
As Americans reel from the destabilizing impact of a U.S. Supreme Court intent on tearing down decades of precedent in a matter of years, the question is what happens when a court with lifetime appointments goes rogue at the same time as lapses in ethics are exposed?But even as the public clamors to strip power from those who have breached public trust, we still believe in reform of the court not tearing it down. It will not serve America well to impeach justices.
Our founding fathers established the Supreme Court with lifetime appointments “during good behavior” so it would be a stabilizing force in America, checking the whims of elected officials and public sentiment with a body immune to elections and even insulated from the consequences of their decisions.
Even when the public is clamoring for breaches of our constitutional rights in the face of war, terrorism, or total economic collapse, the court would stand firm in protecting liberty for future generations. The grand bargain was always that justices would also have to live insulated from politics. They are granted the final word in public policy for their entire lives and as such, we expect them not to give or gain from the influence, clout, and wealth of the political elite.
From municipal court to the federal court of appeals, a judge’s second most important job is to jealously guard his or her autonomy. Adopting evenMany justices have accepted
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