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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. [1] 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.
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 ...
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 ...
That brings us back to the question of a term limit for Supreme Court justices. The most common version of this proposal is for a term limit of 18 years, combined with a permanent fixing of the ...
About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices, according to a 2022 poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. According to June survey on the court, confidence remains low: 4 in 10 U.S. adults say they have hardly any confidence in the people running the ...
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.
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.