One of the primary justifications for having a lifetime appointment was to take corruption out of the equation, and that’s clearly not working, so…
When a deeply corrupt branch is responsible for installing appointments to another branch with no public accountability whatsoever… yeah. One bad apple spoils the barrel, and a solid half of the barrel is nothing but the most pungent, loathsome rot.
Good. I’m not sure how the founding fathers didn’t conceive of this becoming a problem in the first place
The biggest mistake the founding fathers made was having faith in our ability to overcome (or at least resist) our worst traits.
Weren’t a few of them outright begging for people to not cling to political parties? They probably were hoping that the courts would remain bipartisan just because they would be on the stands longer than whatever recent trend was going on when they were nominated in.
Whereas if they had terms like the other branches they would always be voted in based on current issues.
Of course, at the time they did all this, Judicial Review hadn’t even been conceived yet, let alone using judicial review to undo other supreme court cases en-masse.
