CNN's Toobin on lifetime Supreme Court appointments: Framers never contemplated terms lasting more than 30 years

CNN's Toobin on lifetime Supreme Court appointments: Framers never contemplated terms lasting more than 30 years

This would surprise the Founders as most of them lived into their 80’s. “CNN's Jeffery Toobin said late Monday that partisan fights over Supreme Court nominees have only become more intense because "people were expected to die in their 50s" when the Constitution was written.”