Commentaries by Professor William G. Ross | Samford University

A Critique of Biden’s Proposal for Supreme Court Term Limits

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A Critique of Biden’s Proposal for Supreme Court Term Limits

Professor William G. Ross | Samford University

August 8, 2024 06:25:46 pm

President Biden’s recent proposal for eighteen-year term limits for U.S. Supreme Court Justices is a watershed in the perennial controversy over the composition and powers of the U.S. Supreme Court insofar as it is the first time that a sitting President has called for institutional reform of the Court. Although Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Court-packing plan [...]

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