> Unelected, holds their position for life with no accountability
“In good behavior”, with accountability to Congress.
De facto for life with no accountability is, like many problems in the US system of government, largely a side effect of the combination of defective electoral system and the resulting norm of near-balanced partisan duopoly, which in the case of the judiciary combines with the supermajority requirement for conviction on impeachment charges to achieve lack of accountability; the same is also true of the executive, though finite terms, electoral accountability, and in principal (and currently being tested in practice) post-term legal accountability are arguably mitigations there.
“In good behavior”, with accountability to Congress.
De facto for life with no accountability is, like many problems in the US system of government, largely a side effect of the combination of defective electoral system and the resulting norm of near-balanced partisan duopoly, which in the case of the judiciary combines with the supermajority requirement for conviction on impeachment charges to achieve lack of accountability; the same is also true of the executive, though finite terms, electoral accountability, and in principal (and currently being tested in practice) post-term legal accountability are arguably mitigations there.