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U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995), is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that states cannot impose qualifications for prospective members of the U.S. Congress stricter than those the Constitution specifies. The decision invalidated 23 states' Congressional term limit provisions.
It was an open question whether states had the constitutional authority to enact these limits. In May 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5–4 in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995), that states cannot impose term limits upon their federal representatives or senators.
Gov. Ron DeSantis says he's willing to accept term limits for U.S. Supreme Court justices if there are also term limits for members of Congress.
The most popular of President Biden’s recent proposals to reform the Supreme Court is to limit the justices to staggered terms of 18 years. This idea is also among the five proposed amendments ...
If each president had an equal influence on the Court—if each president appointed two justices per four-year term, for instance—the Court would be 6-3 in favor of the Democrats.
U.S. Term Limits (USTL) is a non-profit, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to enacting term limits for elected officials at every level of government in the United States. It was founded in 1992, and claims to have helped facilitate more than 500 successful term limits initiatives at various levels of government.
A 2020 survey found that 77% of people favor term limits for Supreme Court justices. And a recent poll found that 89% of Democrats and 56% of Republicans support a cap on the number of years a ...
The United States Supreme Court lacks term limits or mandatory retirements. Adam Liptak wrote in 2008 that the court has declined in relevance in other constitutional courts. He cites factors like American exceptionalism , the relatively few updates to the constitution or the courts, the rightward shift of the court and the diminished stature ...