ABSTRACT
One of the most telling editorial cartoons of the 1984 election season showed nine justices who looked remarkably like Ronald Reagan chanting “forty more years.” It underlines the importance of the president’s constitutional authority to appoint justices and serves as an emphatic reminder that this issue should be front and center in every election. Quite literally, it was an illustration of a message Richard Nixon often acknowledged: presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court endures (Pacelle 2002, 93).
