Many states have a retirement age of 70 for the judiciary. Many universities had mandatory retirement ages for faculty (and those were a good idea). And many places without firm retirement ages frequently work to determine whether you are still competent.
Imagine thinking that having the ability to declare war isn’t a “dangerous position.”
Even the Catholic Church for everyone other than the pope.
The number of attorneys I’ve seen in the courtroom who barely knew what was going on and were still working because they never developed hobbies and didn’t know how to not work… it’s scary when you have to actually help opposing counsel through an appearance.
The number of 20 year old clerks who don’t know shit in a courtroom and how to work. Or 30 year old ones. Or 40 year old ones.
A good idea for young people on tenure but not because the oldster couldn’t do their jobs.
Commercial pilots have mandatory retirement at 65. Air Traffic Controllers have to retire by age 56. That's not a typo.
And mandatory retirement ages work both to ensure continued competence and to clear the way for new people to assume those positions, rather than have the same people in charge forever with no succession planning.
Forget it, man. You are arguing with Diane Feinstein’s biggest fan. This guy loves seeing abused elderly people being used by their staff.
If the Democrats had a culture where Tina Smith wasn't an outlier I could be skeptical of mandatory retirement; but folks just don't want to leave power, and they aren't fostering the next generation. It should be a party level policy, though, not law.
The party is captured by the doddering geriatrics. Loyalty and seniority-worship factor in way more than the good of the party.
But the party has manifestly failed to make said policy, so I'm fine with putting it into law. If the constitution can specify that you can't run for office when you're too young, no reason it shouldn't do so when you're too old.
like the reason why people stay in office so long is that single winner districts and first past the post sucks they make it harder to break into politics, like mandatory retirements in non physical labor intensive jobs are ageist. the problem is that we age at different rates.
Anywhere where there is no easy way to test competency should have a mandatory retirement age. And we should be doing age competency tests for more things - driving, for example. Once a year, every year after you turn 75
If grandma can still drive safely at 90, that's awesome. I aspire to be like that. But if not, it's best for her and everyone else that she not drive. (I'm also very much in favor of more public transit investment, incl public transit targeted at seniors)
He is exactly wrong wtf. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act specifically exempts executives and high policymaking employees. That's literally the only category you're allowed to discriminate against by age