by Stacey Selleck
U.S. Term Limits, a nonpartisan term limits advocacy organization, calls for a united front for term limits. This is not a left issue or a right issue, it’s about what’s best for the country. U.S. Term Limits praises Democratic California U.S. Representative Ro Khanna for introducing a statute to limit the service of Supreme Court Justices to 18-years.
According to Rep. Khanna’s web site “Current justices would be exempt from the term limits. Going forward, the bill would then create a regular appointment process to allow every president to nominate a new justice to the Supreme Court during each odd year, guaranteeing each president the opportunity to nominate two justices per four-year term.”
Nick Tomboulides, Executive Director of U.S. Term Limits, supports term limits on the SCOTUS because our judicial system should not be based purely on gamesmanship based on ideological consideration. Recently, Justice Breyer, now 83, acknowledged that he may make his retirement decision based on the composition of the other two branches of government.
Last year, Ruth Bader Ginsberg stayed in office until she died at the age of 87 having held the seat for 27 years, an appointee of President Jimmy Carter. RBG, a Democrat, was replaced by a Republican Justice Amy Coney Barrett further shifting justice ideoglogy because Ginsberg happened to die while Republicans were in control instead of retiring when President Obama held office.
Since her death a year ago, Justice Breyer has hinted at retiring while Democrats are in control so as not to lose any more Democratic influence on the Supreme Court. Currently, Democrats control the appointing (Executive) and nominating (Senate) bodies.
We are following the term limits bills in Congress and call on both parties to cosponsor S.J.R. 3 and H.J.R. 12 for term limits on Congress as well as H.R. 5140 for Supreme Court. #UnitedforTermLimits. Grow up. Stop infighting. Support term limits. Let’s get this done.