One critic compared being elected to Congress to receiving life tenure at a university.
Federal judges, alone among public officials, are given life tenure precisely so that they will not be accountable to the people.
Today, election to Congress is a better deal than 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.
The academic critics see a variety of negative consequences from life tenure.
Is there anyone left to speak up for life tenure?
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.
In some cases, life tenure lasts only until a mandatory retirement age.