Sens. Joe Manchin, I-W.V., and Peter Welch, D-Vt., unveiled a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment that would impose term limits on the number of years Supreme Court justices can serve to help “restore confidence in the Court.”
The amendment would institute nonrenewable, 18-year terms for new justices, with a new term starting every two years. It would not affect the current justices.
“The current lifetime appointment structure is broken and fuels polarizing confirmation battles and political posturing that has eroded public confidence in the highest court in our land. Our amendment maintains that there shall never be more than nine Justices and would gradually create regular vacancies on the Court, allowing the President to appoint a new Justice every two years with the advice and consent of the United States Senate,” Manchin, who is retiring at the end of the year, said in a release.
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