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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.
In the context of the politics of the United States, term limits restrict the number of terms of office an officeholder may serve. At the federal level, the president of the United States can serve a maximum of two four-year terms, with this being limited by the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution that came into force on February 27, 1951.
The 2021–2022 term of the court was the first full term following the appointment of three judges by Republican president Donald Trump — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — which created a six-strong conservative majority on the court. Subsequently, at the end of the term, the court issued a number of decisions that ...
The most common version of this proposal is for a term limit of 18 years, combined with a permanent fixing of the court's size at nine. The goal would be to provide an opening on the bench every ...
Two points are crucial: First, term limits are the path to a fairer Court, a necessary structural fix for a broken appointment process. Second, they can be accomplished by statute, rather than ...
President Joe Biden's plan to reform the U.S. Supreme Court by setting term limits and implementing an ethics code has mainly been analyzed for its potential impact on the legal and political ...
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.
President Joe Biden is calling for broad reform of the U.S. Supreme Court, including term limits for justices, a binding code of ethics, and a constitutional amendment. Here's his proposal.