Biden’s latest overreach: imposing term limits on SCOTUS

Joe Biden outlined a new plan to, among other things, impose term limits of 18 years on Supreme Court justices. Rio Grande Foundation supports term limits for Congress and the New Mexico Legislature alike, but it is truly rich for Joe Biden who spent 36 years in the US Senate to bring up term limits for ANY public official.

More importantly, he and anti-SCOTUS voices like Rep. Melanie Stansbury have no authority to impose their policy preferences on the Court. That being said, IF Biden wants term limits on the Court, may I suggest he ALSO work to impose term limits on Congress AND the federal bureaucracy.

We recommend:

12 years in the Congress (6 terms in House, 2 in Senate);

18 years of employment in the federal bureaucracy. No more permanent “deep state.” If 18 years is long enough for the Court it should be enough for ALL federal employees.