Supreme Court justices should have term limits | By Kermit Roosevelt and Ruth-Helen Vassilas for CNNOpinion
Kermit Roosevelt is a constitutional scholar and professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Ruth-Helen Vassilas, a Penn Law grad, is an associate in the London office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the authors; view more opinion articles on CNN.
While on his recent book tour, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said that the framers of our Constitution did not want"nine old people in Washington sitting in robes telling everybody else how to live." Yet that is the current reality of our Supreme Court. Kermit Roosevelt These days, it's the justices, and not the people or their elected representatives, who decide who gets health care and who can vote, whom we can marry and who's allowed into the country, who's won a presidential election and who can spend money on the next one.Ruth Helen-Vassilas Meanwhile, the court has also had a historic lack of turnover and nationally embarrassing confirmation hearings.
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