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Moment Debate | Should There Be Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices?

JL;DR SUMMARY The debate regarding term limits for U.S. Supreme Court justices is explored through interviews with legal scholars David Tatel and Noah Feldman. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Supreme CourtRule Of LawConstitutional AmendmentPoliticizationNoah FeldmanTerm LimitsJudiciary IndependencePresidential AppointmentsDavid TatelJudicial Experience

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Washington, Washington DC, United States
"Eighteen-year terms would cut that process short. I was a better judge in my last ten years on the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit than I was in the first ten years."
Israel
"Look at the Israeli high court, where three term-limited justices were to retire in January, just a few days after the court issued its most consequential ruling in decades, overturning the judicial reform legislation."

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