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applegrove

(122,932 posts) Fri Sep 13, 2024, 06:34 AM Sep 13

Big Majority Backs Term Limits for Supreme Court

Big Majority Backs Term Limits for Supreme Court

September 13, 2024 at 7:20 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/13/big-majority-backs-term-limits-for-supreme-court/

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A new Annenberg poll finds 69% of Americans support imposing term limits on Supreme Court justices, but only three in 10 back expanding the size of the court — a proposal offered up by congressional Democrats and court transparency advocates as a way to dilute the power of the court’s 6-3 conservative supermajority.

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Big Majority Backs Term Limits for Supreme Court (Original Post) applegrove Sep 13 OP

Can sitting Justices be replaced by being over a newly imposed term limit? bucolic_frolic Sep 13 #1

Term limits DeepWinter Sep 13 #2

Only three in 10 back expanding the court... intheflow Sep 13 #3

bucolic_frolic

(46,760 posts)

1. Can sitting Justices be replaced by being over a newly imposed term limit?

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Fri Sep 13, 2024, 06:38 AM

Sep 13

DeepWinter

(411 posts)

2. Term limits

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Fri Sep 13, 2024, 06:40 AM

Sep 13

for Congress too.

intheflow

(28,889 posts)

3. Only three in 10 back expanding the court...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Sep 13, 2024, 08:47 AM

Sep 13

That's because the vast majority of people have no idea that the court has ever changed in size, and as a country, we have not talked about it in depth yet. I think if most rational people (including the Never Trump Repugs) knew the expansion history and the idea that 9 justices are covering 13 districts, that number would change to more support for expanding the court.

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