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Politics : The Supreme Court, All Right or All Wrong? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (72)	7/13/2005 5:49:51 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 3029

Continuation -- Article III judges (judges whose jobs are provided for in Article III of the Constitution) are pretty much the only people who have a job for life. They can only be removed via the impeachment process, which almost never happens. They don't have to please anybody once they're on the bench. They don't have to please the people, they don't have to please the Congress, they don't have to please the President. They are free to do as they damn well please. But the fact is that they do work hard, and they do try to do the best they can, because what motivates them is not money but that their ideas be thought worthwhile. Which is pretty amazing, when you think about it. Lawyers are supposed to be all about money, and judges are often suspected of corruption and cronyism but these guys -- the worst most will say about them is that they didn't have the right idea in a particular case. Maybe part of it is that there are 9 of them. Power corrupts, but not if you're only one in nine, appointed by different presidents from different parties. Keeps them honest.