I can see that. There's no need to please anyone when you're in position for life. There's certainly no need for politicking in the field in which they're vitally important. Still, in other fields they're totally politicians. They all have their pet schemes that they try to get promoted. Roberts wants other judges to be paid more. Ginsburg still actively promotes feminist causes. Breyer wants politicians to go on more international junkets. Kennedy wants people to worship Kennedy. All that is stuff that they can't mandate, so they have to go press the flesh, pay account of interest groups, and so on.
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