Democrats Push Supreme Court Term Limits

Democrats push Supreme Court term limits

Today is retired Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 90th birthday. Kennedy joined the Supreme Court in 1988 and retired in 2018.Morning ReadsSenator Whitehouse aims to keep Supreme Court ethics conversation alive with term limits billBenjamin S. Weiss, Courthouse News ServiceIn an interview with Courthouse News Service, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, defended his decision to “reintroduce a bill that would set term limits for justi…

Senate Democrat Whitehouse to try again with long shot bill to reform Supreme Court, add term limits

The legislation, if passed would also significantly alter the Senate’s confirmation role for justices.

Senate Democrats Reintroduce Supreme Court Term Limits Bill, And The Polling Has Never Been Friendlier

Sheldon Whitehouse is back with the BATL Act, and this time, the public is standing behind him. Whitehouse, along with Senators Cory Booker, Richard Blumenthal, and Alex Padilla, reintroduced the Supreme Court Biennial Appointments and Term Limits Act today. Same structure as the last two goes: 18-year terms, with the president required to appoint a justice in the first and third years of each presidential term. Only the nine most recently appoi…