Should The Supreme Court Have Term Limits?

President Biden’s commission tasked with reforming the Supreme Court started meeting for the first time in May of this year. One of the proposals on the table is setting term limits on Justices. They’re far from the first group to consider this idea. Adam Chilton is a Professor of Law at The University of Chicago Law School and the author of a paper that runs simulations to show how the make-up of the Court could have been different through history if term limits were in place.

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