according to precedent, a super-court justice can be a drug addict, a blithering idiot or a vegetable and STILL cannot be removed from the bench. they are talking about ‘term limits’ for super judges but that’s not necessary. all you have to do is make an ‘incapacitation law’ with a commission power oversight to make sure that our justice system isn’t being compromised.
“Mental decrepitude” on the Supreme Court has continued into the modern era, as historian David Garrow has documented. Frank Murphy, who served in the 1940s, was likely addicted to illegal drugs by the end of his tenure, and his biographer wrote that “on at least one occasion,” with Murphy in absentia, his law clerk and two fellow justices “jointly decided what Murphy’s votes should be.” Justice Charles Whittaker teetered on the brink of nervous breakdown for much of his five-year stint on the court in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Hugo Black stayed on for more than two years after his wife concluded in 1969 that “his mentality has been impaired.”