Nobody writing a constitution knowing how our system has evolved would include life tenure for justices. President Biden’s commission on judicial reform noted that no other constitutional democracy provides life tenure for the judges on its high court. Democratic Reps. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.) and Hank Johnson (Ga.) have just introduced a term-limit bill, and progressive organizations have endorsed it. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) has declared himself “open” to the idea. When the National Constitution Center assembled conservative, liberal and libertarian legal scholars to consider reforms to our system, they converged in support of judicial term limits.
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