life tenure

Is there anyone left to speak up for life tenure?

Today, election to Congress is a better deal than life tenure at a university.

Life tenure did not however give complete and uniform security.

However, members appointed through 1981 were still granted life tenure.

Election to Congress or a state legislature is therefore like getting life tenure at a university.

How from this Americans have come to "life tenure" is a good problem for anyone interested in constitutional history.

Their terms last during the "good behavior" of the judges, which typically results in life tenure.

In some cases, life tenure lasts only until a mandatory retirement age.

"I still have life tenure," she said, half choked with disappointment.

The pay is still far more than what the median American family earns, and the job offers life tenure.

Life tenure, evidently, is no insulation from concern with one's image.

"So your lease would cost twenty times as much today, still only for life tenure.

In that same year, Franklin was elected by the congregation to a life tenure.

The appointment of judges with life tenure is a unique event in the American democratic system.

Federal judges, alone among public officials, are given life tenure precisely so that they will not be accountable to the people.

The academic critics see a variety of negative consequences from life tenure.

And judges were given life tenure to promote judicial independence.

For example, these judges do not enjoy life tenure, and Congress may reduce their salaries.

One critic compared being elected to Congress to receiving life tenure at a university.

And life tenure means being able to say, without apology or, in this instance, much explanation, "Go away."

"But in the past, if you did your job during that period you then got life tenure.

Federal judges have life tenure, so they can make decisions with as little pressure on them as possible.

Presidents are elected for a fixed term, while Federal judges serve with life tenure.

The judges on the federal appeals court come from more varied professional backgrounds and have life tenure.

Equally, scholars have argued that life tenure has taken on a new meaning in a modern context.