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In reply to the discussion: Repugs may lose the WH, Senate and House, but they have 6-3 at the Supreme Court, and they will [View all]Fla Dem
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So a new judge is appointed at 50, they have 25 years on the court and they will be 75.
Or appointed when they are 55, have to retire at 75, so they get 20 years.
Applied to any new appointed. Current judges not affected.
JUDGE---------------APPOINTED-------AGE AT APPT------YEARS ON COURT------CURRENT AGE
Clarence Thomas------10/1991-----------------42------------------29---------------------72
Stephen Breyer---------8/1994-----------------56------------------26---------------------82
John Roberts------------9/2005-----------------50------------------15---------------------65
Samuel Alito------------1/2006------------------56-----------------15----------------------70
Sonia Sotomayor-------8/2009----------------- 56------------------11---------------------66
Elena Kagan------------8/2009------------------50------------------10---------------------60
Neil Gorsuch------------4/2017------------------50------------------3----------------------53
Brett Kavanaugh-------10/2018-----------------53------------------2----------------------55
All these current judges appointed when they were in early to mid 50's except for Thomas and now Barrett who is 48.
Also think number of SC Judges should be increased to 18. Nine judges picked at random hear a case. They will not be assigned, nor do they get to pick the cases they hear. It should be a random pick. Remaining 9 hear the next case.
Just my thoughts. After hearing Senator Whitehouse the other day talk about all the dark money and influencing that goes on, something has to be done to keep the SC fair, non-political and honest.