The Time Has Come to Put a Limit on Supreme Court Tenure
- By Norman Ornstein
- Roll Call Contributing Writer
- July 29, 2009, Midnight
The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court is on course for a strong confirmation vote on the Senate floor. But the 13-6 vote in the Judiciary Committee, with all Republicans save Lindsey Graham (S.C.) voting against her, made me reflect again on the politics of confirmation in light of our permanent campaign/polarized partisan politics environment — and on the need to rethink one of the fundamentals in our Constitution: the equivalent of lifetime tenure for federal judges.
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