Instruction
Instructions
Should federal judges continue to have lifetime appointment?
From its creation under the Constitution, the federal judiciary was meant to be an objective arbiter of the federal system. To ensure that role, federal judges were given lifetime tenure on account of ‘good behavior’. More and more today, people are advocating doing away with the constitutional requirement that federal judges serve for a lifetime.
Read Chapter 13 of the textbook and review the links below which generally discuss the pros and cons of the lifetime appointment of federal judges:
Down With Lifetime Appointments
WHY DO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HAVE LIFETIME APPOINTMENTS?
Term Limits by the non-partisan Fix the Court
Why federal judges with life tenure don’t need to fear political attacks from Trump or anyone else
Supreme Court justices should have term limits
It’s time for term limits for Supreme Court justices
Should we restructure the Supreme Court?
Supreme Court Term Limits Draw Support From Experts and Even One Justice
The Need for Supreme Court Term Limits
Life Tenure Is Too Long for Supreme Court Justices
It’s time for term limits for Supreme Court justices
Assessing and Addressing the Pressing the Problems Caused by Life Tenure on the Supreme Court
Supreme Court: No More Lifetime Appointments
After reading those pieces, in your expert opinion, should federal judges continue to have lifetime appointment or should we aim for a constitutional amendment to remove that lifetime tenure of the bench for those judges? If answering yes, please explain why. If answering no, please explain why too. In your response, please make sure to cite all sources you use, whether the ones provided by the instructor or the additional ones you found through your own research.
Excluding, the title and the references page, your essay should be exactly 1,000 words, no more, no less. Times New Roman font, double-spaced and in APA format, with parenthetical citations and a Reference List. A cover page is not necessary. Additional information will be provided later in the semester.
Please adhere to the following rules when drafting and submitting your essay in the dropbox.
Proofreading your essay before submission is very important. Failure to proofread your report will lead to at least a 10-point deduction from the total points of this assignment. Points will be deducted for grammatical errors, typos, and other issues.
This is a college-level course. Students are expected to use resources of such a level. Students will be penalized if they use and copy Wikipedia or other online-based user encyclopedia.
Academic integrity is the cornerstone or academia. Please adhere to SPC academic integrity policy when writing your report.