Last month, President Biden gave a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library proposing a new policy that would reduce the term of Supreme Court justices from lifetime tenure to 18 years. In doing so, Biden claimed the move would make justices more responsive to public opinion.
If Biden’s proposal had been in place from our nation’s founding, we would be without some of the most important opinions of the Court’s prior justices, including from justices beloved by Biden’s party, such as Justice Ginsburg.
Click here to read policy analyst Harris Van Pate’s full op-ed in the Political Insider.