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Calls increase to reduce life tenure for top court18-year term emerges as a popular idea
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Linda Greenhouse
International Herald Tribune
09-11-2007
As Labor Day weekend got under way, Senator John Warner, Republican of Virginia, revealed his plan to end his political career, after five terms in the Senate, with a quotation from Thomas Jefferson. ''There is a fullness of time when men should go,'' Warner, 80, said in a graceful farewell that recalled the very different departure from the Washington stage of another powerful 80-year-old man two years earlier.Chief Justice William Rehnquist died over Labor Day weekend in 2005, 10 months after receiving a diagnosis of a fatal form of ...
