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On the third season of "House of Cards", a fictional Supreme Court justice mulls retirement when he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.Aside from some overblown criticism of the conservative justices, nobody is speculating that anybody on the real-life Supreme Court is suffering from a degenerative brain disease.But the show's plotline calls attention to the fact that, barring death or an impeachable offence, the justices themselves decide when to hang up their robes.And today' s Supremes are no spring chickens.
Is there anything wrong with a grey bench? Fix the Courts, an advocacy group, says yes, and proposes that future nominees to the Supreme Court take a pledge to serve no more than 18 years before stepping down.But are term limits for justices,whether imposed or voluntarily agreed to, a good idea? Fix the Courts has one primary argument in favor of fresh blood, and it's not quite convincing.The goal of life tenure was to "shield those serving on the court from the political pressures of the day", the group observes, but"today's justices.., are polarized along partisan lines in a way that mirrors our other broken and deadlocked political institutions".
There are two problems with this line of reasoning.First,while the Roberts Court issues more closely divided rulings than previous courts ever did, it's a myth that "today's justices" are more political than their forebears.In 1803, under Chief Justice John Marshall, the court flexed its Federalist party muscle against the new president,Thomas Jefferson, in its ingenious Marbury v. Madison ruling.
Second, 5 - 4 decisions show the justices may be"polarized" on certain issues, but it does not mean the justices are "partisan".Nobody on the court seeks to toe the line of either of the major political parties.In fact, during the term that ended in June, many of the justices—the conservative ones in particular—were willing to stray from their typical ideological camps in plenty of cases.For example, Justice Thomas voted against his conservative brethren in permitting Texas to refuse to print Confederate flags on license plates.
No matter how wise or enlightened they may be, a bench of seven or nineoctogenarians (八十岁到八十九岁的人) will have a circumscribed perspective on the country for which they are adjudicating fundamental questions.But breathing new life into the nation's highest court more often—even if it does not make the tribunal any less political—would bring more dynamism to the judiciary, jog the justices' decision-making patterns and narrow, even if only slightly, the yawning gap between the enrobed ones and everyday citizens.
In the first paragraph, the author suggests that
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文章第一段提到"today’s Supremes are no spring chickens"，即现在的最高法院法官年龄已经很大了。因此，作者在第一段中的建议是关于当前最高法院法官的年龄问题，答案为B。
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