The consequences of life tenure for federal judges:
Life tenure for federal judges was implemented for an extraordinarily vital purpose.
It protects the judges from the 'political stress' which might come with periodic liability to an 'electorate'.
But importantly, this ideal does not demand life tenure. Appointment without possibility of renewal for a fixed term of years would fulfill the same purpose.
But ironically this life tenure has further magnified political divisions.
So, this has failed to completely implement the judicial independence that the lifetime appointment of a federal judge had hoped to serve.
