The Washington Post editorial over the weekend called for setting time limits for Supreme Court judges, limiting them to 18 years on the bench, in an effort to ensure both Republicans and Democrats’ foreseeable, regular opportunities has to appoint judges’.
The post’s view comes on the heels of Joe Biden’s executive order Friday to form a commission to ‘study’ the Supreme Court reform, including an analysis of ‘membership and size’ and ‘length of service and turnover of judges ‘according to the court. to the White House.
Biden said the court system “failed” during a “60-minute” interview during his campaign for president and promised to set up a commission to investigate solutions. The dual committee of 36 members will hold public meetings and is ordered to complete its report within 180 days.
“The time constraints must be high on the agenda of Mr. Biden’s commission stands, ‘the editors wrote, arguing that the wide scope of the White House commission enables members to replace a life term … with a term of 18 years. ‘
The Post’s recommendation is in line with the Democrats’ calls from the past for the Supreme Court judges, including legislation introduced to Congress last year following the death of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who wasted her time on the bench. would have been limited to 18 years.
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Other Democrats have suggested that the number of Supreme Court justices be expanded in response to what the Post calls “recent Republican success with the appointment of a six-member, lifelong majority of the Supreme Court.”
Not all Democrats are on board with the opinion of the Post. Former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid told CNN’s Jim Acosta on Saturday that it would be “inappropriate” to set deadline limits, and that “we better be very, very careful about saying we have to sue the Supreme Court.” expand.”
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Republicans have blown up Biden’s commission, saying it is a drastic step towards the court package, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell saying it was a “direct attack on our country’s independent judiciary.”
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt attempted to add six more judges to the bench. The move saw overwhelming bipartisan opposition to what Biden, as a senator, later called a ‘bonehead’ idea.