How long does a Supreme Court Justice serve?
Yahoo!’s Supreme Court category is full of information about the most powerful court in the U.S. That’s where we found the official site for the Supreme Court. The “About the Supreme Court” section of the site has nearly a dozen PDF files you can download for details about the court and its history. In the Court as an Institution file, we learned this: Members of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President subject to the approval of the Senate. To ensure an independent Judiciary and to protect judges from partisan pressures, the Constitution provides that judges serve during “good Behaviour,” which has generally meant life terms. Another PDF,
