Kavanaugh Saga Amplifies Call for Supreme Court Term Limits

Brett Kavanaugh’s stormy elevation to the U.S. Supreme Court has rekindled calls for justice term limits to reduce the influence of partisan politics and to prevent the court from getting stuck in its ways.

The concept has currency within legal and political circles and with the public, especially following Kavanaugh’s politically paralyzing confirmation.

“Setting terms for justices at least might moderate the violent political partisanship which has enveloped Supreme Court nominations,” Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, wrote for The American Spectator.

“That would benefit all Americans,” Bandow said.

It would also curb the ...