The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits

Steven Calabrisi and James Lindgren make an interesting case for imposing term limits on the highest court in the land. Although persuading the Supreme Court is a nearly impossible task, perhaps the court will understand one of their arguments based on foreign precedent:

No other major country in the world allows the justices of its highest constitutional court to serve for life without a mandatory retirement age. England has a mandatory retirement age, and France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Austria all appoint their equivalents of our justices for a fixed term of years. In addition, none of the 50 states appoints its supreme court justices for life.