Suppose that there are two industries, A & B. There are five firms in industry A with. sales at $5 million, $2 million, $1 million, $1 million, and $1 million, respectively. There. are 4-firms in industry B with equal sales of $2.5 million for each firm.
A fourth will be 78. The average retirement age for a Supreme Court justice is 78.7, according to a 2006 study by the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Appointments to the Supreme Court are always extraordinary consequential.W]e're going to have Supreme Court appointments, and there are going to be a whole host of issues that many people here care about that are going to be determined by whether or not Democrats retain the Senate, Obama told donors.
This proposal would allow Roosevelt to nominate a new Supreme Court justice for every justice with 10 years of service, age 70 or over, who refused to retire, up to a total of 15 Supreme Court justices. In other words, this proposal could increase the total number of justices from 9 to 15!