U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi / ALM
Life tenure, Justice Elena Kagan says, helps “make us independent” by making sure that justices don’t color their decision-making to please a future employer. “We won’t have a next job. We won’t need anything from anybody.”
October 25, 2018 at 11:10 AM
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Life tenure for U.S. Supreme Court justices is a good thing, Elena Kagan said Wednesday, but she also sees possible merit in switching to 18-year terms so that “no single nomination would be a life or death thing.”
While debate over term limits and other reforms for the Supreme Court has ramped up recently, justices have generally steered clear of the discussion.
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