--- --- # Rethinking Life Tenure for the Supreme Court by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 22, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 22, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Let’s rethink life tenure for the Supreme Court.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rethink-life-tenure/2016/02/21/891d9d4c-d72e-11e5-9823-02b905009f99%5Fstory.html) By the Editorial Board of the Washington Post **2\.** [**Baltimore has one of the most diverse police forces in the nation. So why are community relations so bad?**](http://www.buzzfeed.com/joelanderson/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-black-cop-in-baltimore#.wwbqD5mZEB) By Joel Anderson in BuzzFeed **3\.** [**Is it time to fix — or end — U.S. support for Pakistan?**](http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/18/pakistan-corker-military-aid-blank-checks-corruption-terrorism/) By Daniel Markey in Foreign Policy **4\.** [**One lesson from Flint? Science in the public interest is disappearing.**](http://chronicle.com/article/The-Water-Next-Time-Professor/235136) By Steve Kolowich in the Chronicle of Higher Education **5\.** [**This lawyer-bot saved users $3 million in parking fines — and might be the future of legal help.**](http://www.techinsider.io/joshua-browder-bot-for-parking-tickets-2016-2) By Leanna Garfield in Tech Insider  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Rethinking Life Tenure for the Supreme Court ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4232337/life-tenure-supreme-court/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4232337/life-tenure-supreme-court/"},"headline":"Rethinking Life Tenure for the Supreme Court","datePublished":"2016-02-22T17:01:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:22.499Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4232337/life-tenure-supreme-court/","keywords":["Innovation","Pakistan","police","scotus","lawyers","baltimore","Flint"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4232337/life-tenure-supreme-court/","name":"Rethinking Life Tenure for the Supreme Court"}}]}] ```