Poll: Most Support Justice Retirement Age (AP/Yahoo) ("here we go!")

[Bucky]

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

[tjdee]

1. They're not going to overturn R v. W.

All the moderate pro-choice Republicans (like their special special hero Rudy Giuliani) will bolt. I think, but one can never be sure because Republicans tend to have a sheep mentality...

But more disturbing is the fact that 59% don't know Rehnquist's job. Shows how much they care about Roe, or any other judicial issue.

Even though 59% don't know his job, 60% (six in ten) think the justices should have a retirement age? A bit of an uninformed decision, no?

[Demit]

3. even though 59% don't know jackshit, they still have an opinion on it...

I wonder, do they weight these polls for stupidity?

[lgardengate]

2. I just think some of the really old timers are seen as....

being "out of date". I have heard the critism that a majority are close to 100,and have been there two long.I don't know if i agree or not...but the point is not totaly wrong.

[BoX o BooX]

4. Court-Packing, anyone?

This would be a tough sell. They didn't let FDR get away with it, and they won't let the Shrubya, either.

Move along. Nothing to see here.