By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer The idea of lifetime appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court begins with a very specific institutional problem the framers were trying to solve: how to create a judiciary strong enough to check the other branches, but not so politically entangled that it simply mirrored them. In the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton argued that courts would be the “least dangerous branch” precisely because they lacked control o…
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