Should the Supreme Court Judges continue to be appointed and have life-long positions?

I think yes they should continue being appointed by the presdient of the United States and have life-long postions. To those who think that after each presdients term there should be a new court; all I have to say is that will never work. There are many reasons I believe this is and that is because this court will lose its jurisdiction and not be taken serious. The other problem would be that the Supreme Court decides some very imporant issues and if there is a new court they can bring back up the cases again, again and they would never get anything done. I think our founders got it right when they created the Supreme Court and this is what is said of the court in the constitution. "The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority; to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls; to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party; to Controversies between two or more States; between a State and Citizens of another State; between Citizens of different States; between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects". It is a pretty open to intrepation which our founding fathers did a lot of.

As the quote above says there is nothing to say how many judges there should be on the court. The presdient doesn't decide the number of justices but Congress does. One presdient FDR tried to make a law that for every justice that is above the age of 70 the presdient gets to add a member and could have as many as 6 per presdient. I am glad that this never worked becuase this would of politicized the court and give one presdient a whole lot of power.

These justices work their entire life for this postion so they should be able to keep the job until they either retire, die or get impeached. So there is check and balances if Congress feels one member is not up to the job or did something horrible they can impeach him/her. In closing, lets not fix whats not broken so leave the Supreme Court alone.

http://law.jrank.org/pages/9921/Roosevelt-Franklin-Delano-FDR-s-Court-Packing-Plan.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States