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> and it is for life

"during good behavior", actually.




Interestingly, no justice has ever been removed for bad behavior.


> Interestingly, no justice has ever been removed for bad behavior.

Plenty of lower court judges have been (and one Supreme Court Justice resigned in the face of impeachment, and so was certainly driven by office by the power of Congress to remove him, even if he wasn't, strictly speaking, removed.)




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