Maybe Some Limits Are Okay »
The chief justice of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist, has been in and out of the hospital. Recently. I'm all for the right of older people to work. I think it's good. But when you can't go to work because you're back being treated for cancer again, perhaps you ought to forget about the public being interested in your personal business (as Rehnquist refers to his health) and spend a little time getting healthy, and allowing someone else to take over.
Sandra Day O'Connor recently retired and apparently she wasn't even sick - her husband was! So she decides to retire, to help her husband. Meanwhile, someone who may very well be even worse off than her husband continues not only to sit on the court - but to be the ultimate authority of the same.
Maybe lifetime terms were a good idea when a lifetime was much shorter, and once you got sick you couldn't expect to live long. But when someone can struggle for weeks, months, even years, maybe they ought to take the time to concentrate not on their authority, but on their life.
Comments (1)
I agree. The same thing should apply to the Pope. When you are too old to do really do the job, especially one as important as the Supreme Court or Pope, you are not doing the best thing for others concerned.
Posted by Reb Orrell | July 18, 2005 3:51 PM