# If a US Supreme Court justice became mentally diminished (say Alzheimer's) can their family remove them from the court?

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**Created:** [August 14, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-us-supreme-court-justice-became-mentally-diminished-say-alzheimers-can-their-family-remove-them-from-the-court/918135 "2020-08-14T23:26:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-us-supreme-court-justice-became-mentally-diminished-say-alzheimers-can-their-family-remove-them-from-the-court/918135/41 "2020-08-19T13:56:50Z")

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True. Although my point is not to protect the specific individual workers as such, nice though that is.

My goal is to protect the integrity of _the work_ from deliberate sabotage or vandalism by top management. Given the “product” the Executive Branch makes that’s a vastly more important goal for the nation as a whole.

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