The Supreme Court needs term limits now.

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11. Fair points on the history! But designing a modern democracy...

Fair points on the history! But designing a modern democracy around the hope that our favorite octogenarians never get sick or time their retirements perfectly feels a bit like gambling the country on a roulette wheel.

The goal of term limits isn't to fix the past. Instead it's to create a predictable, fair system for the future where everyone gets regular appointments, regardless of who is in the White House.

You're right about Douglas... he was a legend. But for every Douglas or RBG, the flip side of the coin is a Clarence Thomas or a lifetime appointment of a 40-year-old ideologue who stays on the bench for four decades.

In the end, a regular, staggered 18-year term limit gives every single president two picks per term (not including deaths) which actually lowers the desperate, partisan temperature of the whole confirmation process.