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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Speaking of Entrenchment

Marty Lederman

Over on SCOTUSblog, I was just noting the remarkable fact that Justice Alito will be only the third person to hold the "eighth" Supreme Court seat in my lifetime -- and then I realized that it wasn't so remarkable, in that come this June 5th, the "fifth" seat, currently held by Justice Stevens, will have changed hands only twice in ninety (yup -- 90) years!

That's a provocation to my co-blogger Sandy Levinson, who's been valiently carrying the torch for a constitutional amendment to establish 18-year Terms for Supreme Court Justices.

Comments:

Fascinating idea, term limits for justice of the supreme court. Lets have some pros and cons.csmgsc
 

I'm just a lowly future law student, but I'd like to add my plea to those already stated for Professor Levinson to blog a bit about the reasoning behind his fascinating proposal.
 

Interesante el sistema vitalicio de ejercicio de los jueces en Estados Unidos.
 

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