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[I]t’s a lifetime appointment. I’m not going to try to change that at all.
There’s some literature among constitutional scholars about the possibility of going from one court to another court and not always staying on the Supreme Court. But I have made no judgment.
— Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, in response to reporters’ questions as to whether he supports term limits for Supreme Court justices. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) recently proposed a bill that would limit future justices to 18-year terms on the Court, ending life tenure via statute, not Constitutional amendment.
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