For at least a generation, we've lived with elderly Supreme Court justices. Last year, David Ingold of Bloomberg noted, "With two current justices more than 80 years old and a third joining them next year, the projected age when a justice will leave the Supreme Court is now about 83 — that's a 10-year increase from the 1950s."
We live in an era of judicial supremacy, decisions that some would argue constitute judicial activism . . . and in any given year, at least a handful of justices who are old enough to join the cast of a reboot of The Golden Girls. It's sort of a Damocles Sword for our system of laws — at any given moment, one of the nine might announce a retirement or move on to the Pearly Gates and suddenly "alter the balance of the Court," ushering in a period of dramatically different interpretations of the First Amendment, Second Amendment, the commerce clause, and "emanating penumbras" than just a few years earlier.
However, it's fair to wonder just how much Justice Anthony Kennedy's departure will really alter ...
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| | | Jim Geraghty For at least a generation, we've lived with elderly Supreme Court justices. Last year, David Ingold of Bloomberg noted, "With two current justices more than 80 years old and a third joining them next year, the projected age when a justice will leave the Supreme Court is now about 83 — that's a 10-year increase from the 1950s." We live in an era of judicial supremacy, decisions that some would argue constitute judicial activism . . . and in any given year, at least a handful of justices who are old enough to join the cast of a reboot of The Golden Girls. It's sort of a Damocles Sword for our system of laws — at any given moment, one of the nine might announce a retirement or move on to the Pearly Gates and suddenly "alter the balance of the Court," ushering in a period of dramatically different interpretations of the First Amendment, Second Amendment, the commerce clause, and "emanating penumbras" than just a few years earlier. However, it's fair to wonder just how much Justice Anthony Kennedy's departure will really alter ... Read More | | | | | | | Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser. | |
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