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"This is a very direct confrontation with the Court," Rosenblum wrote at the end of June on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Annie Nova: What exactly did you find so bold about President Biden disagreeing with the Supreme Court and announcing another plan to forgive student debt? It was because of the court, Biden made clear, that Americans would not receive the relief his administration had sought to provide them. Before Roosevelt, conflict between the Supreme Court and the president was not taboo, and Supreme Court justices were often understood to be important ordinary political figures. Charles Evans Hughes, chief justice of the Supreme Court when Roosevelt was elected, had been a Republican candidate for president.
Persons: Joe Biden, Noah Rosenblum, Joe Biden's, Rosenblum, Biden, Annie Nova, mystifying legalese, Franklin Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Charles Evans Hughes Organizations: White House, Washington Post, The Washington Post, White, New York University, CNBC, Supreme, Democrats, New, Republican
She was nearly two decades older than the median age — 68 — for all federal judges, according to an Insider analysis. More than a century later, in the 1920s, future Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes argued for a mandatory retirement age. In 1954, the Senate passed a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment that'd require retirement at age 75 for federal judges. A recent poll by Insider and Morning Consult found that 71% of 2,210 respondents said the federal judiciary should have a mandatory retirement age. For Scheindlin, the former federal judge in Manhattan, Weinstein was an example of an older judge who was "terrific to his last day."
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