The Kavanaugh case shows why the US Supreme Court needs to set term limits

Nevertheless, there are multiple problems with life tenure

Suddenly everybody wants to explore term limits for Supreme Court justices. Welcome aboard. I’ve been on that train for almost a quarter of a century. The current argument is that life tenure is a leading cause of the increasing viciousness of our confirmation battles. But whether term limits would fix the process depends on whether we’re right about what’s wrong.

Term limits are popular. Some 61 per cent of Americans support them. Whether categorized by party, income, race, gender or religion, in no demographic group does a majority oppose them. 1   Over the last decade or so, many legal scholars