Most Americans back term limits for Supreme Court: poll
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/13/supreme-court-term-limits-ethics
Most Americans back term limits for Supreme Court: poll
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/13/supreme-court-term-limits-ethics
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And the term ends Dec 2025 for certain 6 justices.
Just sayin….
Too bad 6 of the 9 justices and a whole political party don’t feel the same way.
A lot of reforms could be accomplished just through legislation, but not term limits. Whether it’s retirement age or a term limit the Constitution is very clear that they serve for life or until they resign (though there is a means of removing them, almost identical to that for removing a president). So bottom line, term limits are one reform that would require a Constitutional amendment, and thus ain’t gonna happen in the foreseeable future.
When the Constitution was written, people didn’t routinely live to be 90+ and the ones that did were not in any condition to do these kinds of jobs.
A 20 year term limit seems like an entirely sensible revision.
I back term limits for Supreme court in a way i don’t for senate or house.
avoiding geriatric candidates polls well, but I think this issue is often used by the GOP as a sword of damocles they would love to use to expunge individuals they don’t like without a fight. theres always another college republican in a tight suit to take their place, they don’t really care if grassley terms out.
but for the supreme court there is no mechanism to remove anyone. at least voters can vote to replace people in congress
Americans need more education about the court and why it was stuck at 9, that’s all.
Er. Can only serve for one lifetime? Ah… 18 year term rather than life appointment. I guess I”m used to “term limit” referring to number of terms not definition/duration of a term but I guess it works.
Term limits for *every political position*
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Americans on their precious amendments is ridiculous and has led to so much shit in the modern world.
These amendments were written hundreds of years ago for a different age, and for a population with problems relevant to a new country.
Most Americans can’t read the Constitution
This is why it’s critical that the Democrats take the House while keeping the Senate.
(among many other reasons, but reform of Supreme Court is the key to a host of other things)
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.axios.com/2024/09/13/supreme-court-term-limits-ethics) reduced by 46%. (I’m a bot)
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> Most Americans support term limits, mandatory retirement and a formal ethics code for Supreme Court justices, according to a new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
> State of play: The Supreme Court did not have its own code of ethics until last year, and those guidelines have no enforcement mechanisms or external oversight.
> Breaking it down: 69% of people in the Annenberg survey support a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices, and 68% endorse term limits for the justices.
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How did anyone think lifelong terms were a good thing in the first place?
Most Americans support sensible rules of this land. However because of the Electoral College, the minority rule. Abolish the Electoral College.
Every one in a position of power should have a limit to how long they can hold that power
I’d say they need to be voted in by the people they’re putting shackles on, but these past elections have shown one party is willing to break whatever system we have in place to monopolize control and expect a “thank you” for doing so.
Humans are really bad with the concept of having power over generally anything.
What about Congress?
* 82% of respondents said the justices should be prohibited from hearing cases in which they have personal or financial interests.
* 77% said they would support a formal ethics code for Supreme Court justices, including investigations into potential misconduct.
* 69% of people in the Annenberg survey support a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices,
* 68% endorse term limits for the justices.
Three of these four stats should be 100%. How is anti-corruption at all controversial?
Plus house, senate, local and state level politicians. No one should have the same government job for more than a decade.
Not only do I support term limits but also for them to be Elected by the people. This B.S. that presidents can pick and choose is fucking bananas.
Changing the number of justices or adding term limits doesn’t fully solve the problem of the Court being directly subject to political influence.
We need to fold the current Justices into the regular federal court system and fill the Supreme Court with a yearly random rotation of Federal Judges. Set it up so no Judge can serve two years in a row, are recused from cases they oversaw previously, and set the draws so no single region can dominate the Court. Then each year the newly chosen Justices run the Supreme Court for that year.
Existing ethical rules and laws thus apply to each Justice, and the whole Juducial Branch is in a much better position to act as a neutral court, rather than beholden to particular political parties or the corruption of the super rich.
Most Americans don’t know what they are talking about in this regard, so let’s not let a poll of the utterly ignorant determine policy, folks…
Great idea but unless sizeable changes are made in the very fabric of America this is dead on arrival.
Most Americans are idiots. Were these same Americans backing reform when there was a strong liberal majority?
“69% of people in the Annenberg survey support a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices, and 68% endorse term limits for the justices. … **Yes, but:** While some Congressional Dems have been pushing Supreme Court reform, there are no signs these proposals will soon be passed, or even get a vote.”
This is a sobering indictment of our system of government.
And age limits for ALL elected officials and judges. Enough with the oldest generation screwing it up for the rest of us.
And the senate!!!
Am I the only one that thinks term limits is very, very insufficient? A corrupt supreme court can do significant damage in very short periods of time.
How about we EXPAND the court?
How about we have the DOJ look into the corruption on the Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court will make sure this doesn’t happen, nor Republicans (nor Democrats if they had the majority).
Lady justice isn’t blind. She is a pro*titute.
Every president should get two SCOTUS picks. One SCOTUS seat every two years, 18 year term with nine justices.
Edit: Fuck that. Make SCOTUS an elected position. Every two years one SCOTUS position is on the ballot. Make some sort of requirements for running for SCOTUS. (Have to have federal judgeship, blah blah blah).
Maybe having a SCOTUS position on every ballot would get people off their asses and to the polls every election.
Not reading the article, but I am guessing 65% to 35%
A Harris presidency HAS to address the Supreme Court. We cannot have every May/June/July be a yearly period where our rights are taken away and our government is eroded.
That goes for most of government. The rural town I grew up had the same mayor for decades. Surprise: he kept the town as it was with minimal expansion. And Rick Perry was governor for nearly 15 years. “oops.”
And some also back ethics in the SC.