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Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer indicated support on Sunday for age and term limits on the high court’s justices, saying he does not believe it is harmful to impose such rules given the impact of the current standard’s lifetime appointment.in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The decision, written by conservative Justice Samuel Alito, allows states to implement strict abortion bans that have since led many people toon the consequential ruling that struck down Roe v.
“I’ve said, and I think it’s true, I don’t think that’s harmful,” Breyer said of age and term limits. “If you had long terms, for example, they’d have to be long. Why long? Because I don’t think you want someone who’s appointed to the Supreme Court to be thinking about his next job. And so, a 20-year term? I don’t know, 18? Long term? Fine, fine. I don’t think that would be harmful.”
Citing the Dobbs decision, Breyer ― whose book criticizing textualism will be released this week ― said that the conservative-leaning high court is too focused on trying to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning, regardless of how out of touch it is with modern society. In writing for the court’s majority in Dobbs, Alito said that abortion is not protected as a constitutional right because it is not “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.
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