Posted on Nov 25, 2019
It’s Time for Term Limits on the Supreme Court | National Review
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I disagree with this article. If democrats are worried about Justice Ginsburg passing during Trump's tenure, and wish to avoid a shift to the right in the thinking of SCOTUS, how would term limits help? I think term limits would increase the turnover in SCOTUS, making the SCOTUS more political, and less stable, than it is today. It was DESIGNED by the founders (read the Federalist Papers) to be the stability of a democratic republic. By giving them positions for life, they could be more objective and circumspect in their analysis, and not beholden to political or social fads which may come or go. How much more time and money does this nation need to spend on never-ending election campaigns, and do we really want to add SCOTUS to the list of campaign preppers (as they get ready for the next cycle of incoming justices, surely they would weigh in with advocacy like never before)?
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We have a term limit. Justices are appointed for a life term, so long as they behave themselves.
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Col Joseph Lenertz - I would prefer that the states come up with something similar, although lifetime appointments are too long. When judges have to run for election and reelection, they have to pander to the majority. That's not good for justice or the law. In Texas there are 5 levels of courts, JP/City courts, County courts, District courts, Courts of Appeals, and Supreme Court/Court of Criminal Appeals. You could leave JP courts to election, and set appointment and term limits for the others. Say 4 yrs, 2 terms for County, 6 yrs, 2 terms for District, 8 yrs, 2 terms for Appeals, and 10 yrs, 2 terms for High courts.
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PV2 Larry Sellnow - That's not going to happen. It takes 2/3rds of the Senate to remove someone by impeachment. The Dems would have to win 20 of the 23 seats held by the GOP, and that's not at all likely.
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I agree with you. If we impose term limits anywhere it should be on our legislatures.
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Yes, in this day and age we need limits on the supreme court, congress and the senate, it seems the only one we limit in how long they can serve is the president. As for the supreme court at the very least we need to be able to remove them at some point when they cannot physically or in some cases mentally do their job. I have no problem with Ginsburg in general but the only reason she has not resigned is politics.
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Col Joseph Lenertz
I agree with your point as far as Congress, but not the SCOTUS. The framers clearly intended them to be able to rise above the politics of the day and think about what is best for the nation in the long term. Term limits for SCOTUS would get them putting their collective fingers in the political wind for every decision as they rose through the judiciary in hopes of getting a "Term" in the Supreme. We need stability and prudence in (at least) one branch.
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Col Joseph Lenertz - There should be something, for life we end up with our current situation an aging justice who cannot do their job but hangs on for political purposes. As it stands right now the democrats would proper her cold corpse up in her seat to prevent Trump from appointing another justice.
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