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Stephen Spaulding @stevespaulding.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The bill would create 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices. It’s drawn from the leading proposal for term limits among constitutional scholars. They recommend active service on the Court for a period of 18 years, after which justices would transition to senior status. 3/

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Stephen Spaulding @stevespaulding.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In the Senate bill, “senior status” means that the justice would hear a small number of cases within the Court’s jurisdiction as first set out in the Constitution (e.g., disputes between states). 4/

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Stephen Spaulding @stevespaulding.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Under the senators’ bill, presidents would nominate a new justice every two years. This would put an end to the strategic retirements that now allow a justice to step down when an ideologically agreeable jurist is likely to be nominated in their place. 5/ www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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Strategic Retirements Hurt the Supreme Court. Term Limits Would End Them.

Justices timing their exits to happen under a particular president undermines trust in judicial impartiality.

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