July 25, 2022 08:47 PM UTC

Term Limits for SCOTUS Justices

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• by: Dano

I saw a headline today saying 2/3 of Americans are now in favor of term limits for Supreme Court Justices. I had to ponder that a bit to determine how I felt about it. I decided I might be in favor if the one term was sufficiently long enough to potentially span more than one presidential administration. 10-year terms should do the trick.

In theory, each party would then get roughly the same number of “bites at the apple” over an extended period, hopefully keeping the Court more centrally situated in ideology. Big sweeping changes like the recent overturn of the concept of an implied right to privacy would be less rare because the justices who would be tempted to implement such things would know it would be undone within the decade or so, hopefully dampening such desires.

Then we could all turn our focus back to such principles as case law and precedence. What a novel idea.

Of course, I am always willing to listen to the other side of the coin, if anyone would like to offer one.