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Many judges support term limits for SCOTUS


Many judges support term limits for SCOTUS, but it's complicated

We received strong and widely varying opinions. The final tally: 399 judges voted, and approval of the 18-year term limit won 57.5 percent to 42.5 percent.

Why Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices Make Sense

Wood is a law professor and served as a federal appeals court judge. When President Biden announced in April 2021 that he was forming the ...

Supreme Court Term Limits | Brennan Center for Justice

No other major democracy in the world provides life tenure for high court judges who hear constitutional cases.

Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act of 2021 ...

Summary of H.R.5140 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act of 2021.

Can Congress enact Supreme Court term limits without a ...

President Joe Biden's recent announcement of several proposed Supreme Court reform measures includes the goal of establishing term limits ...

Term Limits | Fix the Court

Future Supreme Court justices should be appointed biennially and should serve no longer than 18 years, after which they'd serve on lower courts and/or fill in ...

Supreme Court Term Limits Bill Co-Authors, Reps. Khanna And ...

Today, Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Don Beyer (VA-08), the co-authors of the Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act, ...

Whitehouse, Booker, Blumenthal, Padilla Introduce New Supreme ...

Supreme Court Biennial Appointments and Term Limits Act would ensure new justices take the bench every two years and establish 18-year terms.

Combining Ethics and Term Limits Strengthens Efforts To Rein in a ...

Supreme Court decisions undermining the rule of law and weakening constitutional checks and balances exemplify the need for term limits for ...

Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act of 2021 ...

All Info for H.R.5140 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act of 2021.

Term limits for Supreme Court justices would bring unexpected ...

The most popular of President Biden's recent proposals to reform the Supreme Court is to limit the justices to staggered terms of 18 years.

Most Americans back term limits for Supreme Court: poll - Axios

Most Americans support term limits, mandatory retirement and a formal ethics code for Supreme Court justices, according to a new survey.

The Need for Supreme Court Term Limits

In fact, it'd make my life a lot simpler, to tell you the truth.” – Justice Stephen Breyer1. “The Framers adopted life tenure at a time when ...

The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits

The system we propose would merely alter the job duties associated with the role of Supreme Court justice over the course of a life term.

Padilla Introduces New Supreme Court Term Limits Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Senators Sheldon Whitehouse ( ...

Why are there no term limits for Supreme Court justices? | E2024

The longest term a U.S. Supreme Court justice ever served was 36 years. That's around nine presidencies. For a political position that isn't ...

US judge, scholars urge Supreme Court term limits in bipartisan push

A bipartisan group of legal experts including a federal appeals court judge and a former US solicitor general on Wednesday threw their support behind 18-year ...

Rep. Johnson Re-Introduces Supreme Court Justice Term Limit ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an effort to restore legitimacy and independence to the nation's highest court, today Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) ...

Most judges appear to support term limits for Supreme Court justices

The other 40 percent favor keeping the current lifetime appointments. Those were the results from the NJC's Question of the Month for October, ...

The Risks of Supreme Court Term Limits

Should we impose term limits on Supreme Court justices? Many people, of varying political views, have suggested that we should. They argue that requiring ...