Supreme Court justices commonly serve decades beyond the president who appointed them
Evidence
When Justice William Brennan retired in 1990, he had served more than a third of a century on the Supreme Court. Appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, only two years after the Court’s historic ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, 58 Brennan remained on the bench through the turmoil of the 1960s, the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, and the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 509
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Supreme Court justices historically serve about 26 years on average — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 461; Judicial appointments are a priority concern of modern presidents. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 502; Judicial appointments extend presidential influence far beyond a term — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 511 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Judicial appointments extend presidential influence far beyond a term
#expands(0.92) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 511 - Federal judges serve extremely long tenures averaging twenty years or more.
#corroborates(0.90) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 461 - Judicial appointments extend a party’s influence beyond its control of elected branches.
#expands(0.85) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 341