Keith Whittington in The Dispatch

Writing in The Dispatch, Charter Member Prof. Keith Whittington reacted to President Biden’s proposals regarding the Supreme Court, including the imposition of term limits:

As a matter of constitutional norms, a statutory term of service under current circumstances would in fact be a serious challenge to judicial independence. The current White House is not shying away from saying that it wants to shuffle justices off the court because it is unhappy with the substance of its decisions. Perhaps there could be a neutral rationale for setting a mandatory retirement age to avoid the problem of infirm judges—but there is nothing politically neutral about current proposals.

Read the piece here.