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Does age really matter?(Opinion & Editorial)

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From: Manila Bulletin
Date: 20050215
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SEEING an attractive woman pass by, the ninety-year-old Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes sighed, "Oh, to be seventy again!" No wonder US justices of the Supreme Court retire only at their own cognizance.

But not our judges and justices, who must retire, by law and not by choice, at seventy, although more than a few should have been retired shortly after their appointment. All the same, one must ask how wisdom acquired by experience "in the thickets of the law" could be considered no longer fit for judicial service.

No rationale has been established for the forcible ...

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