It’s Time to Abandon (or Closely Monitor) Judicial Life Tenure

Date

2023-4-17

Website

Life tenure for the federal judiciary doesn’t promote judicial independence or the development of law as the Framers expected, and should be repealed or reformed.

Citation

It’s Time to Abandon (or Closely Monitor) Judicial Life Tenure, US Law Week (April 17, 2023).

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