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When Federal Judges Need To Pack It In
(original opinion)Lifetime appointment of federal judges needs to be mitigated, when those judges are no longer able to perform their jobs on the bench. A process is needed to retire those who are unwilling to accept that they are no longer capable. The late Thurgood Marshall is a good example. While his intellectual faculties, never terrific, remained, his bladder and bowel incontinence in his last few years on the bench were offensive to everyone in the room and especially to those justices sitting adjacent to him. Ruth Bader Ginsberg is more to the point. Believed to be suffering from senile dementia, she should no way be permitted to wield national power, much less drive a car, or even be outside without assistance. Traditionally, such judges were approached by a committee of their peers, and advised to retire gracefully. But today, there is an absence of grace. Federal judges with partisan sensibilities insist on being removed from office only by death. Without reform, our country is in essence, held hostage to people who are physically incapable or mentally ill, but who insist on making life-or-death decisions about our collective lives. This impairs an entire branch of government, and is untolerable now as it was when Woodrow Wilson remained President for many months, even though comatose from a stroke. Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-09 |
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