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.
Nine judges â called justices â make up the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court is led by one justice, called the Chief Justice of the United States. The other eight justices are known as Associate Justices. Justices are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Once confirmed, justices serve for life. They only leave the Supreme Court if they die, resign, retire, or are convicted on impeachment for bad behavior. There is no long list of special requirements to be appointed a Supreme Court justice.