Judicial Retirement: The Age of Judges and the Judges of Ages

Mr. Sheppard's argument is that our judicial system should take the example of the many industries and insist that judges retire after a specified age. For too long we have been permitting judges "who forget their common human frailties and fallibilities" to determine for themselves when they should retire, he declares, and his figures show that most judges, at least in the federal courts, use their power to decide when to retire to decide that they won't retire.