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Lifetime appointment (together with protection from reduction in salary while in office) ensures impartial decisions because it places the court beyond the reach of the executive and legislative branches to influence or even coerce judicial opinions in one way or another. Courts have handed down many rulings that one or both other branches disagreed with. If the courts knew their jobs and salaries were constantly in jeopardy, there would be too much pressure on them to rule the way the other branches wanted instead of the way that is correct.

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