As I expected. Rehnquist hung on to power regardless of increasing
incapacities until he croaked.

This is typical of a lot of people in powerful positions. They will do
anything to keep power and they refuse to hand it over to anyone else
regardless of how decrepit and incompetent they are. I'm sure that the
Founding Fathers didn't have it in mind that the lifetime appointments to
the Supreme Court would mean it would be full of geriatric cases. Back in
the 1700s lifetime meant less than 50 so I doubt they thought anyone would
be on the court for more than 20 years at most. There's an amendment to the
Consititution that should be made, shortening the tenure of a Supreme Court
Justice to fifteen or twenty years at most, not something stupid like
banning flag burning.

Hawke